Ask HN: Is the past disappearing on the web?

Re:Ask HN: Is the past disappearing on the web? by bbarnett on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @12:14PM (#30088304)

All fiction is a lie, by its very definition.

After all, it claims the unreal as real. Fiction, lies.

The difference with things like fiction in books and movies, for entertainment, is that the listener of the lie, knows it is a lie, and listens for entertainment.

It is not a lie, pretending to be true.

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Re:Ask HN: Is the past disappearing on the web? by abyrne10 on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @12:29PM (#30088580)

I would argue that a lie involves deliberate deception, not just untruth. Fiction, then, is not a lie, as by definition it is something imagined or invented, and therefore not created to deceive.

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Re:Ask HN: Is the past disappearing on the web? by bbarnett on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @01:22PM (#30089484)

I think deceive was created to explain the difference in intent.

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