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People like me would be more convinced by your rant/flamebait if you provided sources for your claims. You claimed that the "broad strokes here are not up for d
by bjourne 5y ago
People like me would be more convinced by your rant/flamebait if you provided sources for your claims. You claimed that the "broad strokes here are not up for debate" so it should be trivial for you to provide sources. Since you don't, it's hard to take your arguments seriously. Everyone can make unsubstantiated claims, providing evidence is the difficult part. I'm sure you understand that the "trust me, I'm a scientist" argument doesn't fly around here. :)
- luckylion 5y ago> People like me would be more convinced by your flamebait if you provided sources for your claims. To be honest, from what I've read in these comments: I doubt it. There's a lot of goal-post moving and deflection ("but what even is intelligence", "but what if we never taught people to speak", "but why should it even matter") that I believe Betteridge's law of headlines still holds.
- bjourne 5y agoI don't think denigrating others contributes to a healthy debate.
- NoImmatureAdHom 5y agoI didn't read it as denigration, it was a legit point. We make inferences based on the type of discussion.
- NoImmatureAdHom 5y agoYeah, as I said elsewhere this is a reasonable request. I was writing in a moment of passion very late at night. I am supposed to do a variety of "real work" today but I'll see what I can gin up. The things I listed are "the sky is blue"-type claims to people who do evolution stuff.