"Blanket claims like "Everybody" are trivially falsifiable." As are claims like "No one" or "99.9%" How many times per week are such claims made on HN and in

"Blanket claims like "Everybody" are trivially falsifiable." As are claims like "No one" or "99.9%" How many times per week are such claims made on HN and in similar forums with respect to software and hardware curl https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=no+one&tags=comment |grep -Eo '\"nbHits\":[0-9]+' Perhaps the term "everybody" is just a figure of speech used in an online title. Can we, should we, forgive HN commenters for making 47,000+ trivially falsifiable claims How often do HN commenters use the trivially falsifiable term "everybody" curl https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=everybody&tags=comment|egrep -o '\"nbHits\":[0-9]+' What about the term "99.9%" I read the article but found no hint of "aggressive-denialism that anyone could find AI genuinely useful (bordering on miraculous)" Instead I found a statement that the author finds AI "incredibly" useful: "An AI summary would have been incredibly useful" Where, specifically, is the "aggressive-denialism that anyone could find AI genuinely useful (bordering on miraculous)" in this article The author's point as I understood it is about "AI" _hype_ not "AI" usefulness. The issue she has is with the _people_ who are hyping "AI" and the actual or potential effects of that hype