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pixl97yesterday at 4:05 PM1 replyview on HN

Skepticism is a fine balance.

If you're not skeptical you invite idiocy to your bed to sleep with you.

If you're too skeptical you put yourself in a box of ignorance that puts you at a disadvantage.

Skepticism doesn't really work well without the dialectic. For dialectics to work well you need knowledge of your arguments and counter arguments.

The problem with most articles and online posts is we get "no no no" and "yes yes yes" and very few "well, maybe".


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krupanyesterday at 5:19 PM

Absolutely true and the comments here are mostly in one of those two categories, sadly