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>I can also just say:”All the opinions presented so far are deficient, here is my new, better, opinion X”

Yes, I browse reddit every now and then. It's a shame the Alt-Right pipeline hijacked this. They realized that being loud is better than being correct.

I'm a bit confused on how we got onto a tangent about productivity, though. All I was talking about came down to "opinions are arguments, and restating an opinion (in good faith) often means you aren't convinced of another opinion". They're opinions, they aren't inherently right or wrong.



If opinions were worth, or equivalent to, any kind of argument whatsoever… then my example holds true.

I would become the most productive HN user ever… anyone could do so by following that… so clearly opinions cannot be worth anything.

All the opinions you’ve ever written, and will ever write, must literally all add up to less than one solid argument.




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