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Re:It's Time to Act – A Response to Marc Andreessen by ianai on Monday April 20, 2020 @03:12AM (#22921837)
Not properly refuting bad ideas let’s the bad idea spread.
Re:It's Time to Act – A Response to Marc Andreessen by crispinb on Monday April 20, 2020 @06:37AM (#22922679)
We seem to live in an age where comprehensively refuted ideas readily gain adherents (not that I have an Age of Reason in mind to be particularly nostalgic about). There can be a fine line between useful refutation and promotion. A hard one to draw, I would accept.
Re:It's Time to Act – A Response to Marc Andreessen by croon on Monday April 20, 2020 @06:30AM (#22922656)
First off, I agree.

But it's not practically feasible.

You can autogenerate bullshit, or manually do it with complete disregard for sourcing or legitimacy, but you can do neither for refutations.

I don't have a solution for this, but the old adage "truth prevails" is looking more and more dead.