Re:Lost Advanced Civilizations
by barrkel on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @05:02PM
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Hanson is very skilled at asking questions whose answers end up confirming his biases.
I follow him on Twitter. It's quite remarkable how he structures his frequent polls, and subsequently uses them to confirm his priors, when the limited choice of questions funnel responses into Hanson's favoured response vs a series of straw man positions, with no catch all "other" to gather disagreement even from the choir that follow him.
The best thing about him is that his dubious evidence does sometimes support an interesting perspective; it gives him ammo to stick to a possibly unpopular position, which might even be true, or have sufficient truth value to merit thinking about.
I follow him on Twitter. It's quite remarkable how he structures his frequent polls, and subsequently uses them to confirm his priors, when the limited choice of questions funnel responses into Hanson's favoured response vs a series of straw man positions, with no catch all "other" to gather disagreement even from the choir that follow him.
The best thing about him is that his dubious evidence does sometimes support an interesting perspective; it gives him ammo to stick to a possibly unpopular position, which might even be true, or have sufficient truth value to merit thinking about.