Naval Ravikant: “The Internet lowers the returns to distributing facts” • Hacker News Board

Re: Naval Ravikant: “The Internet lowers the returns to distributing facts”

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Post by dang » Thu, Sep 28, 2017, 9:59 PM UTC

golergka wrote: post #55

SandersAK wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.google.com/search?q=the+fall+of+journalism&oq=th... There are dozens of papers written about this - but the main thought exercise is to just consider that if the "truth" was the core value of media, of course they would double down on it.

So, you're OK with wasting a lot of effort to tell a story, but when asked to back it up, you instantly resolve to the simple "google why I'm right". People are certainly moving their efforts from facts to opinions and emotion.

Could you please not argue like this on HN? It crosses into the sort of testiness the site guidelines are designed to exclude.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Naval Ravikant: “The Internet lowers the returns to distributing facts”

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Post by dang » Thu, Sep 28, 2017, 10:01 PM UTC

SandersAK wrote: post #59

golergka wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, you're OK with wasting a lot of effort to tell a story, but when asked to back it up, you instantly resolve to the simple "google why I'm right". People are certainly moving their efforts from facts to opinions and emotion.

Your replies telegraphed not curiosity or interest but just standard internet "source?" flame posts. It's not hard to google any element of what I'm saying to read countless articles in Poynter, NYT, CRJ etc to find stuff to back this up. Why should I waste my time when your mind is already made up? I will just in case someone actually reads into your reply some genuine curiosity: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/bu…

Please don't get testy when someone else gets testy. It degrades the discourse as much as the other, and provokes worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Naval Ravikant: “The Internet lowers the returns to distributing facts”

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Post by golergka » Fri, Sep 29, 2017, 11:10 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #61

golergka wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, you're OK with wasting a lot of effort to tell a story, but when asked to back it up, you instantly resolve to the simple "google why I'm right". People are certainly moving their efforts from facts to opinions and emotion.

Could you please not argue like this on HN? It crosses into the sort of testiness the site guidelines are designed to exclude. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Thanks for remark. I explained the reason for my emotions down in the following comments.