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Comment by P5fRxh5kUvp2th | Hacker News Reader

how do you run before you can walk, and what has this level of cynicism done for you in life?

It saves time. The most you can actually get from such an announcement is to slightly update your priors. It doesn't affect your actions at all. So you see it, note it, become slightly miffed that the Internet will be full of comments that think it's a bigger deal than it is, and move on with your life.

The cynicism serves as a mental balance to the hype that might otherwise tempt you to spend more time on this than it merits.

skepticism does that, not cynicism. They're not the same thing.

When dealing with news, skepticism and cynicism are practically identical. They're not the same, but cynicism is less effort and achieves similar results.

And it's easily reversed. If this turns out to be useful, you'll get many more chances to re-evaluate.

I reject your premise that they're "practically identical" and it's going to be on you to show that such a grand claim is true.

skepticism is requiring facts, cynicism is a generally negative outlook.

You can change skepticism by producing facts, you cannot change cynicism that way.

confusing the two is a very common mistake.

Scepticism. Prevented buying crypto, because I couldn't understand how it could be both a currency and an investment.

you're mistaking cynicism for skepticism and you're trusting yourself entirely too much (a common flaw for smart people).

Consider that even too much water can kill a person and the original computers filled buildings.

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