By "dismissive skepticism" I was thinking of the repetitive, lazy, nearly content-free kind, like linking to "killed by Google" every time there's a topic about

By "dismissive skepticism" I was thinking of the repetitive, lazy, nearly content-free kind, like linking to "killed by Google" every time there's a topic about a Google product, spelling Microsoft as Micro$oft (back in the day), anyone talking about "techbros," or calling an LLM a glorified Markov chain. If you can post it off the top of your head and everyone can predict that someone will say it, is it worth saying? Something to be particularly wary of is reasoning by crude analogy. These people are all the same. These companies are all the same. By contrast, there are skeptics who do research, like investigative journalism and the kind of short seller that digs up dirt and publishes it. This sort of research is often valuable.