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Petey's avatar

You make a persuasive case but I am not convinced.

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Spencer Orenstein Lequerica's avatar

This essay is a nice complement to your essay The Smartest Person on the Internet is Often Egregiously Wrong.

I find it particularly difficult to calibrate my level of skepticism for writers that I find hypnotic--thinking of people like Erik Hoel and Scott Alexander. But on the other hand I perhaps over calibrate to an unreasonably high degree of skepticism for internet randos and also most journalism (I seem to not experience Gell-Mann Amnesia, though I'm not sure if that is because I am aware of the concept). I came to your writing with that unreasonably high degree of skepticism, which I started to downgrade after reading your essay on factory farming. Erik and Scott have both changed my mind in fundamental ways. I can't say you have thus far (I already didn't eat meat), but I suppose time will tell if you are able to persuade me to change my views on other topics.

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