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Then they are illogically boosting a hoax on purpose, or at least with reckless disregard for truth.
by perihelions 1y ago
Then they are illogically boosting a hoax on purpose, or at least with reckless disregard for truth.
- vpribish 1y agoOr not engaging enough to come to any conclusion - just chuckle - upvote. Useful, but not idiots nor villains
- zahlman 1y agoJust because you don't consciously believe something to be true, doesn't mean you don't care about its veracity. The null hypothesis is that people are willing to treat things as true based on their priors — which could be informed by things as simple as "this was posted on a website not known as a den of misinformation, and shared on HN" — while not actually devoting thought to an investigation of the truth.
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- nailer 1y ago> "this was posted on a website not known as a den of misinformation, and shared on HN" I don't know whether you mean Threads or Bluesky but it sounds like you haven't used either.
- natch 1y agoYeah I have peeked into both and have never seen such a strident collection of vituperation, misinformation, and hatred. For people who claim to have left Twitter due to supposed toxicity, they definitely seem unacquainted with mirrors.
- username332211 1y agoOr they want knowledge of the hoax to spread, so as to protect the victim against further lies?
- pengaru 1y agoIf your goal is to burn down tesla/musk, you logically promote everything remotely damaging. And there are plenty rational reasons to have that goal.
- dkiebd 1y agoIt’s funny that I just read the thread on rationalism and then come back to this one and someone posted this flawed nonsense.