Re:A Brief History of Who Ruined Burning Man
by Tossrock on Friday October 07, 2016 @04:56PM
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I downvoted you because your comment was gimmicky and needlessly antagonistic while not making a substantive point. Do you think Burning Man attendees don't live in the real world? Do you think you've achieved that much more than Eric Schmidt or Elon Musk (notable attendees) that you can talk down to them?
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Re:A Brief History of Who Ruined Burning Man
by aorloff on Friday October 07, 2016 @06:34PM
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Sorry but those are NOT notable attendees. Notable attendees have CREATED something notable that they shared on the playa.
Re:A Brief History of Who Ruined Burning Man
by oh_sigh on Friday October 07, 2016 @05:00PM
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Elon Musk and Eric Schmidt are also notable attendees in Real Life.
Re:A Brief History of Who Ruined Burning Man
by ianamartin on Friday October 07, 2016 @05:19PM
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That's fine. You're totally allowed to downvote me.
But pulling celebrity names out of a hat is not an argument. It's actually a fallacy. It's called appeal to authority. You should check it out, but I doubt you will.
I'm upvoting you for honesty. You're not right, but you're honest about it. I approve.
Re:A Brief History of Who Ruined Burning Man
by zazen on Friday October 07, 2016 @05:44PM
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You chose to reply only to the final, weakest part of Tossrock's comment. Yes, you're quite right, dropping celebrity names isn't much of an argument. The rest of his comment seemed pretty bang-on to me. I'd be curious to know if you have any reply to "Do you think Burning Man attendees don't live in the real world?"
Whoever said "there's no event like Burning man on this planet" was a bit breathless, but going <<durr, try real life instead>> isn't much of a reply. If you want to start listing fallacies, I think what you have there is a false dichotomy.
Re:A Brief History of Who Ruined Burning Man
by true_religion on Friday October 07, 2016 @08:54PM
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Celebrity name dropping isn't appeal to authority when the question is "are there no people who attend that are successful?"
Naming successful and wealthy individuals is a good counter, and we reach for naming celebrities because everyone knows them as opposed to naming Joe from accounting at XYZ corp, who has 1.2M in the bank but no one knows.
Re:A Brief History of Who Ruined Burning Man
by Tossrock on Saturday October 08, 2016 @09:46PM
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I'm very familiar with appeal to authority, which is not what I've done. Appeal to authority is when you argue "Statement X is true because authority Y said it is". This is not what I said - I listed examples of successful, well regarded people in the "real world" who have attended Burning Man, as a refutation of your (poorly stated) premise that people who attend Burning Man do not also accomplish things in the real world.