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“It turns out” (2010)
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#12It turns out that writers don't always tell the truth!
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I used to be quite the AI skeptic, I even tried it once or twice but it turns out that most people refused to use AI and our collective wallet voting was killing it. Nobody seemed to care as it turns out, not even the AI employees.
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#15This was pointed out humorously by Douglas Adams: > "..am I alone in finding the expression 'it turns out' to be incredibly useful? It allows you to make swift, succinct, and authoritative connections between otherwise randomly unconnected statements without the trouble of explaining what your source or authority actually is. It's great. It's hugely better than its predecessors 'I read somewhere that...' or the crave…
Turns out I was onto something
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#16There is however another very powerful aspect of the phrase: it suggests that something is not obvious. This makes it very powerful when correcting someone without making them feel like they said something stupid. "The sun is yellow" "You'd think that. But it turns out that without the atmosphere the sun is actually a blueish white, and high on the sky it's a neutral white"
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#17( 2010 )
Original submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1162965
And with a response from pg.
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#18It turns out you can write a whole article about something obvious?
I hope the irony of this comment isn't lost on the author of the article
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#19I always think of Andrew Ng's famous machine learning course whenever I hear someone say this phrase. He also used this phrase repeatedly in the videos.
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#20Also used by Steve Jobs to great rhetorical effect.