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Fine, you may have strong priors against Amazon, but don't act like evidence to the contrary is supporting your position.
by Fernicia 3y ago
Fine, you may have strong priors against Amazon, but don't act like evidence to the contrary is supporting your position.
- scrum-treats 3y ago> Fine, you may have strong priors against Amazon, but don't act like evidence to the contrary is supporting your position. Apologies, however I don't understand your position. To me this reads as word salad. (1) There is no evidence to the contrary. (2) You've made a blanket assumption that I have strong priors against Amazon. If you could reword your statement I am happy to try and understand what your point (assuming there is one).
- interroboink 3y agoThis is just a drive-by comment from an outsider, but in case it helps you: When you say "We know Amazon will make up anything.", it comes across (to me, at least) as an over-broad statement. The sort of statement someone with strong priors against Amazon would make. We _don't_ know that. You cite some valid examples of Amazon being sleazy, but even if you listed 100 examples, we still don't know that. Examples just mean they have made up some things, at some times — not everything, all the time. I imagine you were just using hyperbolic language for effect, but that's just my 2¢ POV, in case it helps you avoid being misinterpreted in the future (:
- wenc 3y agoI know we shouldn’t comment on comments but I appreciate this rigorous and even-handed reasoning. Comments that are reactionary and unnuanced (“all big tech is bad! Because they’ve done this in the past.”) do not contribute to the discussion and are merely venting. I distrust comments made on this type narrative thinking that doesn’t address the precise issue at hand.