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brookstyesterday at 2:18 PM2 repliesview on HN

There are plenty of authoritative reference books full of errors. Teachers in every subject can be wrong, convincingly.


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abalashovyesterday at 2:25 PM

Yes, but human errors are based on genuine and elaborate misconceptions (or propagandistic intent), not squishy, facile "you're right to push back on that, I straight up made that up" type stuff.

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varjagyesterday at 7:13 PM

It's not anywhere close. Like, by four orders of magnitude.