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Learning not to trust the All-In podcast

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9cb14c1ec0 ◴[] No.42072713[source]
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.
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1. pkd ◴[] No.42073384[source]
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.