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Arguably there's a lot of blind speculation on HN about engineering/math/whatever as well, some of it quite dangerous. That's the price we pay for open discour
by downerending 7y ago
Arguably there's a lot of blind speculation on HN about engineering/math/whatever as well, some of it quite dangerous.
That's the price we pay for open discourse.
- _bxg1 7y ago> That's the price we pay for open discourse. I don't think this is true. It's entirely possible to have open discourse without over-selling one's own loosely-informed speculation.
- kd0amg 7y agoThat danger is contingent on credulous readers being in position to act on the misinformation. When people here speculate about an airliner's flight envelope, misled readers generally aren't going to go crash 737s.
- downerending 7y agoNothing will save the credulous other than hard experience. The problem with censorship is that you often just end up substituting one set of nonsense for another.