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Wow. That's outsourcing a lot of thought, overriding your individual interpretation. I guess it's pretty common here.

This also applies to reading restaurant reviews before visiting. Or for that matter, reading any published book you outsource judgement to the publishing house (what books they pick up). Or, if you are easily convinced by jargon: Exploration has a non-zero opportunity cost.

This is HN where we discuss specific things such as articles, blog posts and tweets. There is often good insight in the comments but mostly it’s people talking about their opinions. I’d rather review the item myself first and then come for the extra nuggets that might be in the comments.

Likening this to restaurant reviews and publishing houses is disingenuous. One is nothing like this and the other is not helpful in that it’s such a generalization of influence as to be not useful. Everything is an influence doesn’t mean anything.

> overriding your individual interpretation

Presumptuous.

Ok, influencing

Or perhaps: correct.

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