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Do you have some special power to know the truth before anyone else?
by postalrat 3y ago
Do you have some special power to know the truth before anyone else?
- pessimizer 3y agoWhoever told you you need special powers to sometimes correctly evaluate things before most of the internet catches up has a unique definition of "special powers."
- mikhmha 3y agoYou see this type of stuff enough it’s all the same. People are what drive the hype and what motivates people to lie, cheat, etc is the same no matter where you go or what year it is. Or maybe it’s because I’ve been burned enough times by hype cycles and magical thinking in my youth I have developed some skill for this. You gotta get burned a few times to understand. of course you need to be careful. Check yourself. I’m not some perma-skeptic or contrarian. But if it quacks like a duck…
- Solvency 3y agoNo, my special power is extreme cynicism, which works 99.99999999% of the time.
- slt2021 3y agoCynics don't create anything new, they can only say No and smear other people's work without lifting a finger. Creating something new requires to have more positive and optimistic attitude, these people make things happen and make the world a little bit better.
- jonstewart 3y agoDiogenes created something new.
- phist_mcgee 3y agoI would say that classical cynicism has a very different meaning to the modern usage of the word.
- empath75 3y agoYou have to use judgement to figure out what's worth investing your time in.
- fouc 3y agoYou're not cynical enough about your cynicism. You should assume it'll only work 88.8888% of the time. It's definitely nowhere near 99%, you're probably falling for some cognitive biases.
- hcks 3y agoI mean when you see it’s the same kind of hype/people as crypto on twitter, that the legitimate experts are doubtful, that the original paper was very poor, that the authors weren’t able to provide more proof, that the field is full of duds… I don’t know why people were pretending it was anything over 1% chance of being legit