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PeterWhittakeryesterday at 10:56 PM1 replyview on HN

Huh. Commented upon echo chambers and cults and was told "Request failed: fetch failed". Tried a private session as well, just in case my previous UBI comments had polluted things, but no love. Was it the length? FWIW, here's my comment....

A great many words surround what seem to me to be red herring arguments and arbitrary definitions and groupings, with the word cult appearing in the article precisely 8 times without any justification for the statement in the headline. Moreover, the sentence "We can pop an epistemic bubble simply by exposing its members to the information and arguments that they’ve missed" seems woefully naive: By the definition included in the article, traditional views re the roles of women or blacks in society would be epistemic bubbles and not echo chambers, and women's right were not advanced and slavery not eliminated through the bringing of facts, but through long, arduous moral struggles to convince at least a majority that women and blacks merited the same rights as men and whites.

But it liked my comment on UBI and potential cost reductions through elimination of fraud detection and mitigation, so obviously it does things well. 1/2 /s? :->


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vintagedaveyesterday at 11:40 PM

Hi. Apologies for 'fetch failed' - we had 5-6 minutes of downtime where the SSL cert suddenly reflected our hosting provider, not us. Exactly what you want when you're getting attention on HN ;)

I tested your comment just now, and made some specific tweaks in response (we've done that with a lot of the feedback here.) In my testing it liked the comment.