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This is one of those intelligence tests from kindergarten.

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All Linux enthusiasts are attractive women.

Am I wrong?

It’s a question. You know what a question is, right?

You people are so used to these weird games that every question must be an insinuation.

We were discussing “seeing with your own eyes” vs “being told what to think by various propaganda organs”. The latter being less good.

I didn’t actually see mass graves or filled ERs.

If it’s propaganda to make people believe the truth, is it bad?

I didn’t see anybody die of covid. 2 relatives died after getting the shot tho, of apparently unrelated cause.

Tell me what to believe.

Observation is fantastic for removing bullshit from the conversation.

He’s arguing that salt is sweet? Well just taste it then.

It could be explored. How does science NOT stick to the observation? Could we further optimize it?

It could be borrowed. Are some conversations just too bullshit? Maybe we could borrow science’s trick.

I think we just ignore those situations.

I don’t think about it

Turns science into more of a debate than just looking and talking. Quality models through conversational darwinianism.

Models drawn from observation, assumedly. Hopefully.

(I think that humans are naturally authoritarian. I think that science is still unnatural to us, as a species.)

From what would you draw that “what to look at”?

Reproducibility of what? Yes, of an observation. It all stands on looking at it.

That and logical consistency. And a bit of expert consensus. I guess that covers it.

Take away any of the 3 and you get something quite different.

I hear ya. I use linux just fine but now and then I dicover a new trick or command and I’m like “holy shit it’s a superpower”. A good book could be gold.

To be fair, writing technical documentation for this shit is possibly the most unpleasant job in the world. After 5 minutes I desperately want to fuck off and get high.