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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by nickff on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @06:11PM (#23317029)
Would you please point out the fallacy?
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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by anigbrowl on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @10:06PM (#23318663)
Bifurcation
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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by nickff on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @10:44PM (#23318869)
I did not present a false choice between two options, I only defined what an alarmist is. I regard alarmists as an extreme on the spectrum of forecasters.

Bifurcating would have been saying that everyone is either a superforecaster or an alarmist, and I never said that.

You may not agree with me, but that doesn't mean that I fell into a logical fallacy.

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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by anigbrowl on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @02:18PM (#23327498)
If someone does not make specific and testable predictions which turn out to be right, they are useless alarmists.

This conversation doesn't seem like it's going to go anywhere productive.

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