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gruezlast Monday at 3:31 PM3 repliesview on HN

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oxguy3last Monday at 3:54 PM

Fortune tellers typically tell you extremely vague things that are designed to trick you into interpreting them favorably; you hear what you want to hear. "Someone new will come into your life soon" or "Something exciting will happen next week" are not claims that can be disproved.

They certainly don't make hyperspecific claims like "this YouTuber traveled to Israel and changed his mind about the war there, as documented in a video he posted on August 18".

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atq2119last Monday at 3:44 PM

Google aren't advertising their search as "for entertainment purposes only" though.

And even if they did, it wouldn't really matter. The way Google search is overwhelmingly used in practice, misinformation spread by it is a public hazard and needs to be treated as such.

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aDyslecticCrowlast Monday at 4:01 PM

You can sue a fortune teller too if they tell people you're a sex offender and drink piss.

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