Yeah, the comments on there were...not very well thought out. My intuition is that a lot of people went “Hey, this looks insane”, then went back and came up with a justification other than “absurdity heuristic”, and then didn’t bother checking that the reason they came up with really made any sense.
Thus it being our opportunity to add comments to the thread on /. that are well thought out, and thereby improve how the subject is perceived by a not insignificant fraction of sort of people who might be easily persuaded to be interested in this topic.
Yeah, the comments on there were...not very well thought out. My intuition is that a lot of people went “Hey, this looks insane”, then went back and came up with a justification other than “absurdity heuristic”, and then didn’t bother checking that the reason they came up with really made any sense.
Thus it being our opportunity to add comments to the thread on /. that are well thought out, and thereby improve how the subject is perceived by a not insignificant fraction of sort of people who might be easily persuaded to be interested in this topic.