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Your opinions do not automatically turn into credible “hypotheses”…? There is no such mechanism. If there was then the vast majority of political debates on H
by MichaelZuo 2y ago
Your opinions do not automatically turn into credible “hypotheses”…?
There is no such mechanism.
If there was then the vast majority of political debates on HN wouldn’t even exist.
- andrewflnr 2y agoWho said a hypothesis is automatically credible? Not me.
- MichaelZuo 2y agoIf they’re not credible… then why would any one care…? Readers are just going to assume it’s random noise, or at least indistinguishable from noise, from a rando on the internet.
- andrewflnr 2y agoThat's equally true of all internet comments. None of us here on HN have or are claiming automatic credibility. We just make arguments that make sense to us. Feel free to close the tab if you don't find any value in this activity.
- MichaelZuo 2y agoSo then what makes your opinions “hypotheses”? Sufficient chimpanzees with keyboards, or an LLM, can also type out every comment you’ve ever written, including the last few.
- andrewflnr 2y agohttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hypothesis https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hypothesis
- MichaelZuo 2y agoI clearly don’t think your opinions match the definition found in merriam webster… or else I wouldn’t have asked.
- swiftcoder 2y agoYou don't think his comment is "an assumption put forward for the purposes of discussion"? That seems a fairly low and generic bar for a comment to reach...
- MichaelZuo 2y agoI don’t think the parent meant that interpretation, as that would also apply to the output of sufficient chimpanzees bashing keyboard and LLMs too… Which would be practically meaningless without some attached non-zero credibility.
- swiftcoder 2y agoI mean, we're all chimpanzees bashing keyboards around here, at least till proven otherwise
- MichaelZuo 2y agoYeah, hence why I asked… otherwise anyone on HN, including me, could say their opinions are hypotheses too, to be taken just as seriously as the parent’s.
- andrewflnr 2y agoYou still don't know what a hypothesis is, after I linked the dictionary definition.
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