alt Hacker NewsOfftopic but the damage caused to an entire generation by Gwern's nicotine article is truly astounding. Obviously he's not responsible for the actions of others and it was written with good intentions but wow.
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This one?
It seems to be listing the pros and cons of nicotine and is well-sourced...
What "damage" do you see caused by this article?
Are you talking about vapes?
An "entire generation", huh? So nobody was spared?
Can you be more specific about exactly which "entire generation" uniformly and mindlessly takes their suicidal marching orders from Gwern?
And how is it that he only damaged the entirity of ONE generation, sparing all the others?
From the overconfident emphatic incoherency of your accusation, it sounds more like you're addicted to cocaine than niccotine.
Really? I don’t see anything objectionable in the article - and ‘an entire generation??’ How do you figure?
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I have no sense of gwen's readership numbers, but I find it unlikely that one rather erudite blog has anything to do with global nicotine consumption. People have been smoking for centuries. The vaping industry had guerilla marketing campaigns to target college kids.
No rain drop thinks it is responsible for the flood, but I am hard-pressed to imagine a blog article greatly swayed hearts and minds.