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> representing speculative things as high-confidence erodes your credibility I wish you were right, but I actually think most of the time the exact opposite is
by vosper 6y ago
> representing speculative things as high-confidence erodes your credibility
I wish you were right, but I actually think most of the time the exact opposite is true: appearing highly-confident about speculative things makes someone seem more credible, rather than less.
- faeyanpiraat 6y agoRight up until something you say gets proven to be wrong. The higher confidence you presented your wrong statement, the higher the hit to your credibility will be.
- chillacy 6y agoI very much want this to be true but it seems you’ll do fine if you can confidently spew off another explanation. https://religiondispatches.org/a-year-after-the-non-apocalypse-where-are-they-now/ https://religiondispatches.org/a-year-after-the-non-apocalyp...
- rootusrootus 6y agoYou could become the leader of the free world, even.