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>Is... that a bad thing? Yes, when it is there for no valid reason, or ridiculous reasons. Skepticism is not a default position you can take like a toddler ref
by dkarras 5y ago
>Is... that a bad thing?
Yes, when it is there for no valid reason, or ridiculous reasons. Skepticism is not a default position you can take like a toddler refusing to eat their vegetables. You need some informed (and non-fallacious) intelligent reasoning behind that. "I'm skeptic about this thing using X because X is so hyped these days" is not such reasoning.
- akiselev 5y ago"I'm skeptical about this thing using X to do Y because the burden of proof is on people claiming X does Y and historically they have failed to meet that burden" I don't know what skepticism has to do with ridiculous toddlers - they are almost universally incapable of grasping the nuances of epistemology.
- andrepd 5y agoWell, it kind of is. Blockchain has been hyped by charlatans as the cure to all world's ills. That means when you read something about blockchain you should be especially suspicious. Similarly, I've read too many people hyping up glorified chatbots as one step below AGI (see the :o reactions to GPT3), so I'm now extra skeptical about claims about machine learning.