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This is exactly how confirmation bias fuels conspiracy theories. No one believes anything that they think sounds implausible. As a general rule, you should giv
by ikesau 3y ago
This is exactly how confirmation bias fuels conspiracy theories. No one believes anything that they think sounds implausible.
As a general rule, you should give very little thought to anonymous 4chan posts.
- Andrex 3y agoThat's absolutely true. But They have leaked real things in the past, in exactly the same way. It may be 5% or less that turn out to be true, but there's the rub. That's why no one can completely dismiss it out of hand (and why were even discussing it on an HN comment thread in the first place).
- mvdtnz 3y agoI assure you, I can (and did) dismiss it out of hand. 4chan shitposting is not credible.
- philipov 3y agoWar Thunder Forums on the other hand? That's a completely different story.
- jacquesm 3y agoThe scary thing is that it is more internally consistent than quite a bit of the stuff on HN over the last couple of days.
- holyhelldang 3y ago[dead]
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- spondylosaurus 3y agoHow soon we forget that QAnon (the guy, not the movement associated with the guy) was a 4chan shitposter... and obviously all of his predictions came true :P
- rnd0 3y agoI'm almost 90% positive that was 8chan, not 4chan.
- hatefulmoron 3y agoStarted on 4chan /pol/, moved to 8chan on a couple of boards iirc