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I did not believe what you wrote for even a second (who would be commenting on HN during an emergency?) and therefore became neither unsettled nor wished to hel
by ngneer 3y ago
I did not believe what you wrote for even a second (who would be commenting on HN during an emergency?) and therefore became neither unsettled nor wished to help. Never eval() untrusted input.
- TeMPOraL 3y ago> who would be commenting on HN during an emergency? People had, in fact, done that. My comment was trying to evoke the style of such comments.
- ngneer 3y agoInteresting, had not realized. I suppose my thresholds for truth were conditioned through prior observations of the HN comment distribution, and that such observations were incomplete. Given the new information, the story now takes two seconds to parse instead of one, and would be upgraded from "impossible" to "highly unlikely", IF there was a way to know whether your new subcomment is true or false. Maybe you are still messing with me ;-). When you look at it that way, there is no way for a person or machine to discern truth from fiction. And Tarski comes to mind.