Learning not to trust the All-In podcast

One person made a mistake once, so everything they ever say is useless. Got it. Now I can discredit and ignore anyone I want to, because everyone has made a mistake at some point.

That show is 95% hyperbolic con-man BS that angsty tech tweens lap up as truth. I listen to because I want to know what the hype machine is pushing, and they tell me.

It's great for following the techniques of grifter speech and influencing, but it's not a source of good information.

The mistake which this podcast made was to misinform their listeners. Given that informing their listeners is their core mission, it's a pretty unforgivable mistake. Better to listen to another podcast which takes their mission more seriously.

Any podcast that has "informing their listeners" as a core mission will make mistakes now and then. It happens because we are all humans and not Gods. All I'm trying to do here is push back against the suggestion of the article that you write off people based on a single mistake. A world in which I can never make a mistake is not a world I want to live in.

There’s an obvious difference between a one-off mistake and one which is part of a pattern of continuous deception meant to bias the audience in one particular political direction; the mistake mentioned in the article is clearly the latter. It does not deserve the benefit of the doubt you’re giving it, as a genuine one-off would (particularly if they mentioned, corrected, and apologized for the mistake, which I predict with high confidence they will not do).

Here's another one: pre-Musk Twitter takeover, they had him on to make his point. Musk made an erroneous statistical comparison between Twitter likes and YouTube views to demonstrate that Twitter was shadowbanning his tweets. When in fact 30 seconds of thinking would tell you that Twitter likes and YouTube views are not the same metric and cannot be compared (YouTube views are more like Twitter views, and YouTube likes are Twitter likes). None of these four smart people pointed out this discrepancy.