So to try to come up with a concrete example, imagine we were talking about the culture of Argentina, and a sub-thread was about economics, and a sub-sub-thread was about the effects of poverty, and a sub-sub-sub-thread was about whether poverty has increased or decreased under Milei. Just doing a web search would find claims in both directions (eg increase, decrease). We could stop the discussion and spend a while researching it, or we could check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Milei#Poverty and accept its verdict, which lets us quickly pop back up the discussion stack at least one level.
Maybe someone says, ‘Wait, I’m pretty confident this is wrong, let’s pause the discussion so I can go check Wikipedia’s sources and look at other sources and figure it out.’ Which is fine! But more often than not, it lets us move forward more smoothly and quickly.
(It’s not an ideal example because in this case it’s just that poverty went up and then down, and that would probably be pretty quick to figure out. But it’s the first one that occurred to me, and is at least not a terrible example.)
So to try to come up with a concrete example, imagine we were talking about the culture of Argentina, and a sub-thread was about economics, and a sub-sub-thread was about the effects of poverty, and a sub-sub-sub-thread was about whether poverty has increased or decreased under Milei. Just doing a web search would find claims in both directions (eg increase, decrease). We could stop the discussion and spend a while researching it, or we could check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Milei#Poverty and accept its verdict, which lets us quickly pop back up the discussion stack at least one level.
Maybe someone says, ‘Wait, I’m pretty confident this is wrong, let’s pause the discussion so I can go check Wikipedia’s sources and look at other sources and figure it out.’ Which is fine! But more often than not, it lets us move forward more smoothly and quickly.
(It’s not an ideal example because in this case it’s just that poverty went up and then down, and that would probably be pretty quick to figure out. But it’s the first one that occurred to me, and is at least not a terrible example.)