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> I think writing that sounds good is more likely to be right. This is a wild belief to hold in the post truth age of bs generation machines.
by roxolotl 1y ago
> I think writing that sounds good is more likely to be right.
This is a wild belief to hold in the post truth age of bs generation machines.
- antithesizer 1y agoMarx wrote the following about Proudhon: >M. Proudhon has the misfortune of being peculiarly misunderstood in Europe. In France, he has the right to be a bad economist, because he is reputed to be a good German philosopher. In Germany, he has the right to be a bad philosopher, because he is reputed to be one of the ablest French economists. Being both German and economist at the same time, we desire to protest against this double error. I don't know if Paul has much of a reputation as a technologist among tech lay people, but this quote reminds me of Paul's fame as a thinker among tech people.
- mkoubaa 1y agoMarx and his hot takes are highly overrated
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- sebastianconcpt 1y agoAnd yet, countless people bought his deadly equivocated ideas and still want to make it "sound more right". Paul Graham in that essay is equating "good writing" to "good propaganda" and in it he confesses that truth is treated as a convenient accident. To truth, that's intellectually amoral. His utilitarian opportunism intensifies.
- hoherd 1y agoThis reminds of this cognitive bias https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyme-as-reason_effect https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyme-as-reason_effect