Re:Fusion Foolery
by carabiner on Thursday August 17, 2023 @02:03PM
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This was posted during the height of the LK-99 frenzy:
"In a week there will be a lot of thinkpieces on how the internet got this so wrong. A lot of people just want to believe, full of hope, because their life situations (poverty, housing crisis, hot weather) are so dire ... I should say that even if it doesn't affect them personally, it creates their worldview when it is 90% of their news. Homeless crisis, war in Ukraine. Why wouldn't you want and allow some positive, apolitical, hopeful story about noble science to consume your attention instead?"
It was downvoted and flagged. Mainstream press like NYTimes got it right by ignoring this until replication. HNers fall for hype as much as the rest of the world, it's just different hype.
"In a week there will be a lot of thinkpieces on how the internet got this so wrong. A lot of people just want to believe, full of hope, because their life situations (poverty, housing crisis, hot weather) are so dire ... I should say that even if it doesn't affect them personally, it creates their worldview when it is 90% of their news. Homeless crisis, war in Ukraine. Why wouldn't you want and allow some positive, apolitical, hopeful story about noble science to consume your attention instead?"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36895407 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36895665
It was downvoted and flagged. Mainstream press like NYTimes got it right by ignoring this until replication. HNers fall for hype as much as the rest of the world, it's just different hype.