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someguynamedqyesterday at 8:13 PM1 replyview on HN

Authority is a heuristic for which claims are worthy of investigation, not determining their truth


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elendilmyesterday at 8:37 PM

Always be suspicious of people who don't atleast give us even a single valid sentence to construct the chain of thought that would lead to their negation or assertion.

An authority claim by virtue of itself is not worth investigating. Science doesn't work that way. Math doesn't work that way.