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I'd suggest approaching this from the other direction: providing even one counterexample would refute GP's assertion.
by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
I'd suggest approaching this from the other direction: providing even one counterexample would refute GP's assertion.
- anigbrowl 6y agoSurely it's up to the GP to bring at least some evidence for such a broad claim before the obligation falls on other people to spend their valuable time refuting it.
- runarberg 6y agoTrue. Great grand parent was pretty strong in their claim “has not once yielded positive results in the history of the world.” I only need to provide one counter example to disprove this, while they need something far more significant, like several examples and a sufficiently good description of some mechanism for why this is the case in general. ashtonkem mentioned Alex Jones (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24754897 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24754897) that is a pretty good counter example, and is sufficient to refute the original claim.