isn’t this a core design principle in yavascript
but it's protected from critiques. It's funny and occasionally insightful but often dead wrong.
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who cares?
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I care because people believe the incorrect things because they're incorporated in funny jokes.
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I've seen it cited multiple times to make real arguments I disagree with.
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there's in particular trick he pulled that is basically the entire misdirection. He introduced a 1/
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"war" so he wouldn't have to explain how the accurate stuff he was describing from the world of 2013 2/
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plausibly links to his wildly implausible and very wrong in almost every way future world. 3/3
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the jokes about 2013, told in a future context, and with the cute YavaScript "it's from the future" 1/
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style make his future predictions appear more plausible. The part that bothers me is his extreme 2/
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I'm pretty sure if I wrote an article critiquing it people would say I was being a spoilsport.
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i would say that
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exactly. Which allows his pessimism-cloaked-in-comedy to get away with making people believe pessimism.
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which is really too bad.
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