top | item 32815411 (no title) blakesley | 3 years ago I agree, but it can also be true that there are so many things wrong with the points being made that it's hard to construct a response. discuss order hn newest lazyeye|3 years ago I would have thought this would make it easy to construct a response. actually_a_dog|3 years ago See the "bullshit asymmetry principle": refuting bullshit takes far more time and effort than producing it.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law tptacek|3 years ago No, it doesn't! It famously doesn't! There's a whole discipline of creating arguments that are deliberately difficult to engage with or respond to: it's called "college debate". load replies (1)
lazyeye|3 years ago I would have thought this would make it easy to construct a response. actually_a_dog|3 years ago See the "bullshit asymmetry principle": refuting bullshit takes far more time and effort than producing it.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law tptacek|3 years ago No, it doesn't! It famously doesn't! There's a whole discipline of creating arguments that are deliberately difficult to engage with or respond to: it's called "college debate". load replies (1)
actually_a_dog|3 years ago See the "bullshit asymmetry principle": refuting bullshit takes far more time and effort than producing it.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
tptacek|3 years ago No, it doesn't! It famously doesn't! There's a whole discipline of creating arguments that are deliberately difficult to engage with or respond to: it's called "college debate". load replies (1)
lazyeye|3 years ago
actually_a_dog|3 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
tptacek|3 years ago