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This is a great example of the issue the blog post is addressing, namely: > The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than
by noelwelsh 1y ago
This is a great example of the issue the blog post is addressing, namely:
> The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.
The play book is:
1. Set an impossible standard (an undefined "unbiased" fact checker)
2. When impossible standard cannot be reached, throw toys out of the pram
Meanwhile, egregious levels of bullshit now go unchallenged.
- brookst 1y agoYeah it’s just the seat belt fallacy: seatbelts are useless because people still die in car crashes. Somehow our whole society has fallen for the “unless you can point to a perfect saint who has never done any wrong, we might as well be led by active criminals” pitch. It’s so nihilistic.