Re:It's Time to Act – A Response to Marc Andreessen
by ianai on Monday April 20, 2020 @03:12AM
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Not properly refuting bad ideas let’s the bad idea spread.
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Re:It's Time to Act – A Response to Marc Andreessen
by crispinb on Monday April 20, 2020 @06:37AM
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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
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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.