This is a good time to bring up the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect(xhe). It's where you read a page full of comments about something you really and truly deep know s

This is a good time to bring up the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect(xhe). It's where you read a page full of comments about something you really and truly deep know something about and see how very, every wrong nearly everyone is... ...then you go on to take every other page pretty seriously without remembering just how far off people were on the topic that you know about. I experienced this the other day when people were talking about beep.js on HN. (xhe) http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-gell-mann-amnesia-effect-is-as-follows-you http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-gel...