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This is nonsense. Fools "debating" and babbling "what the TV said" are liabilities. What's more, what 7.7B fools "like" and "don't like" never matters. Simpler

This is nonsense. Fools "debating" and babbling "what the TV said" are liabilities. What's more, what 7.7B fools "like" and "don't like" never matters. Simpler facticities, such as design and organic anatomies, are all documented. Probabilistic functional consequential facticities are also mostly Globally Credible Consensus Narratives (GCCN). Now, we can finger jerks selling something at expense of others. They must be silenced. Same for "bar drunks" and "team seekers" and attention seeking "2-sides debaters." All wastes of time. All noise, no signal. In any case, written narratives with some pretenses to formal completeness dominate babblers and texters. Focus on sets of propositions worth writing down. Ignore restaurant reviews. Focus laserlike on recipes.

crawfordcomeaux 6y ago
Any examples of such propositions to share?
- Chiba-City 6y ago
  HN itself is full of wonderful "counter-intuitive" narratives. College is the road to riches? We've heard Peter Thiel and others explain otherwise. "Health food bars" aren't just candybars? Whey protein doesn't just ruin kidneys? Daiquiri mix isn't just (overpriced) kool aid? DNC/GOP (partisans) correlates to "conservative/liberal" and also "right/left." Journalists stringing together "southern, conservative, Christians" seem to forget MLK and his kindred churches (I worked for Unitarians at Harvard). Might we consult George Lemaitre (Big Bang) and Gregor Mendel (Genetics) (both Christians monks) about the "Science vs. Religion" conflict? We can go on and on about "what everyone knows" that was never and shall never be the case. And Darwin himself wrote that Herbert Spencer's fictitious "Social Darwinism" was pure idiocy. I wish I could red pen correct all of TV and old wives tale "common sense" here, but I can't :/
- Chiba-City 6y ago
  BTW, notice how our very phrase "counter-intuitive" largely indicates credible consensus contradicting TV narratives, commercial advertising, news "headlines" and fragment's of yesterday's propaganda. Credible consensus is not even "counter-intuitive."

crawfordcomeaux 6y ago

Any examples of such propositions to share?

Chiba-City 6y ago
HN itself is full of wonderful "counter-intuitive" narratives. College is the road to riches? We've heard Peter Thiel and others explain otherwise. "Health food bars" aren't just candybars? Whey protein doesn't just ruin kidneys? Daiquiri mix isn't just (overpriced) kool aid? DNC/GOP (partisans) correlates to "conservative/liberal" and also "right/left." Journalists stringing together "southern, conservative, Christians" seem to forget MLK and his kindred churches (I worked for Unitarians at Harvard). Might we consult George Lemaitre (Big Bang) and Gregor Mendel (Genetics) (both Christians monks) about the "Science vs. Religion" conflict? We can go on and on about "what everyone knows" that was never and shall never be the case. And Darwin himself wrote that Herbert Spencer's fictitious "Social Darwinism" was pure idiocy. I wish I could red pen correct all of TV and old wives tale "common sense" here, but I can't :/
Chiba-City 6y ago
BTW, notice how our very phrase "counter-intuitive" largely indicates credible consensus contradicting TV narratives, commercial advertising, news "headlines" and fragment's of yesterday's propaganda. Credible consensus is not even "counter-intuitive."