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One thing I very much appreciate about the hacker news community are comments like this. I didn’t read the article but clicked in of the comments “knowing” the

One thing I very much appreciate about the hacker news community are comments like this. I didn’t read the article but clicked in of the comments “knowing” they be stuffed with Reddit like fury. “How dare they!” I was wrong… Like usual. It seems this community is significantly less jump-to-outrage prone than many others (eg. much of Reddit). We still let the marketing-engineered clickbait headlines slip through (since they are the actual articles’ titles) - such as the title of this post. But still, some of the least outrage-y responses on the internet. Thank you Reonxi and thank you HN community. Edit: spelling (more bloody autocorrect fails)

8ytecoder 5y ago
When you’re an expert in any field and you see how journalists botch something so basic, you’ll learn to be a lot more skeptical of articles in other fields as well. There’s a name for this that’s not coming to my mind right now
- syockit 5y ago
  Gell-Mann amnesia.
  - samhw 5y ago
    Well akshually... Gell-Mann amnesia is the opposite of what they described (though it's probably still what they had in mind). It's the tendency to read reportage about something on which you're an expert, realise how wildly incorrect it is, but then to proceed to the next page of the newspaper and totally trust their reporting on another topic - as opposed to 'learning to be a lot more sceptical'. Hence the 'amnesia' bit.