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I wrote the comment below over a year ago, about how these popsci books are very unreliable sources of knowledge because of the perverse incentive structure (eg
by Gatsky 7y ago
I wrote the comment below over a year ago, about how these popsci books are very unreliable sources of knowledge because of the perverse incentive structure (eg would this book have been written if the conclusion was 'we don't know how important sleep is, but it seems generally pretty important although this is difficult to prove and largely obvious'). It was downvoted pretty heavily.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18244061 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18244061
I mean, none of this is surprising.
- Qwertious 7y agoI think your comment was down voted because it was a poor comment that didn't properly communicate your reasoning. Specifically, note that your description of the comment is longer and contains more detail/clarification than the actual comment it describes!