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throwaway81523today at 1:07 AM1 replyview on HN

I haven't heard that exact expression before, but basically agenda-driven speech, for commercial or ideological persuasion or whatever. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning


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AndrewKemendotoday at 1:37 AM

I’ll wait for OP to respond in affirmative but I’m not necessarily agreeing that that’s what they meant.

By that standard then literally everything that is opinion based (ideological) is motivated reasoning