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I've observed that this exists in all domains. Unsubstantial critique is cheap and at everyone's disposal. Generously, I think it can be interpreted as an appea
by potsandpans 4y ago
I've observed that this exists in all domains. Unsubstantial critique is cheap and at everyone's disposal. Generously, I think it can be interpreted as an appeal to common sense due to ignorance / lack of specialization. There's probably some heuristic like, "the more specialization required to understand information, the easier it is to invite empty critique."
I'm not very generous though. I personally think the majority of people are more interested in being right or sounding clever than arriving at truth or understanding.
- gfody 4y ago> I personally think the majority of people are more interested in being right or sounding clever than arriving at truth or understanding. there's a term-of-hate for this "poser" like in parent's username. regardless of whether HN or the internet at large has a poser problem, drawing attention to it is off topic at best and hateful at worst - otoh we could be happy that the zeitgeist holds theoretical physics in high enough regard as to draw posers (iow we could have worse problems!)
- throwaway81523 4y agoI thought a superposeur was someone who prepares superposed quantum states. It's one of the steps on the way to getting the entangleur credential. You need the latter before you can build quantum computers. ;-)
- superposeur 4y agoyes pun intended