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Not properly refuting bad ideas let’s the bad idea spread.
by ianai 7y ago
Not properly refuting bad ideas let’s the bad idea spread.
- croon 7y agoFirst off, I agree. But it's not practically feasible. You can autogenerate bullshit, or manually do it with complete disregard for sourcing or legitimacy, but you can do neither for refutations. I don't have a solution for this, but the old adage "truth prevails" is looking more and more dead.
- crispinb 7y agoWe seem to live in an age where comprehensively refuted ideas readily gain adherents (not that I have an Age of Reason in mind to be particularly nostalgic about). There can be a fine line between useful refutation and promotion. A hard one to draw, I would accept.
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- GoodJokes 7y agoIt is not clear if properly refuting really does anything anymore. The release of the info in the first is the ball game. It was popularized on Hackernews and is now part of the guardrails of debate. Marc wins. We have a huge manufacturing consent problem.