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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.
by blakesley 4y 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.
- lazyeye 4y agoI would have thought this would make it easy to construct a response.
- tptacek 4y agoNo, 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".
- lazyeye 4y agoSee it alot on HN too then.
- actually_a_dog 4y agoSee the "bullshit asymmetry principle": refuting bullshit takes far more time and effort than producing it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law