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Comment by daptaq | Hacker News Reader

Why was this posted on HN?

Edit: this was not meant in a pejorative way, it was a sincere question. I thought it was Off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Oh, my bad then, I thought posts had to be related to Technology in some sense, this just appeared to me to be one of those PM rants, all over again

When you spend some time here you will find patterns about stuff totally unrelated to technology that gets both down and upvotes. For example basically anything posted about musicians will get you downvoted... hooowever, posting anything interesting about Leonard Cohen will most likely get upvoted.

At first glance without a thorough read it appears to me to be a discourse on constructed meaning, relevant to the zeitgeist concept we might know as "truthiness". An easier read on the topic:

http://theconversation.com/truthiness-and-alternative-facts-...

Pertinent text from the submitted article:

    “But “glory” doesn’t mean “a nice knockdown argument,’” Alice objected.

    “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 

    “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”

I felt like the paper’s concept of a ‘Troll’s Truism’[1] would be particularly relevant to here. I also remember seeing a similarly structured paper on Scientism here.

[1]“A Troll’s Truism is a mildly ambiguous statement by which an exciting falsehood may trade on a trivial truth.”

So it's what Daniel Dennett refers to as a 'deepity' then?

Source: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Deepity

https://xkcd.com/1860/

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