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> I mean, for reference this is the guy who thought Worldcoin was a good idea, I am sure there is some neat name for this kind of fallacy. Person said X which

> I mean, for reference this is the guy who thought Worldcoin was a good idea, I am sure there is some neat name for this kind of fallacy. Person said X which was wrong, so what he says about Y must be wrong too. > I’m not sure that people need pay _that_ much attention Lol. Then why are you commenting on an article about what he is saying?

rsynnott 3y ago
> Person said X which was wrong, so what he says about Y must be wrong too. You could argue that the linked post in indulging in the reverse (a form of appeal to (false) authority): Person said X which is right, so what they say about Y must be right too. Altman has no particular authority here anymore than anyone else who works at a midsized company; that anyone bothered to write an article about his take is due to him being well-known in _completely different_ fields. > Then why are you commenting on an article about what he is saying? The article itself is an example of a sort of broken thinking which has become annoyingly common in HN-land, and is interesting for that reason, _not_ for its actual content.