This is a property of human beings in general. We're all wrong about almost everything, and "wrong and confident" probably just means the same thing as "wrong".
Which is fine! But as community we do have a somewhat annoying tic of fixating on a small set of axioms and trying to extrapolate everything else from them, when a lot of things you can just look up the answers. Even competing authorities, if our cites conflict, is usually a more interesting (and curious!) conversation than a bunch of nerds making it up as they go along.
When nobody has a cite, we're just going to noodle and be wrong about stuff and that's fine, even salutary. But sometimes the truth-seeking we do is kind of superfluous.
(I'm just writing this so it doesn't sound like I was just snarking about HN.)
When nobody has a cite, we're just going to noodle and be wrong about stuff and that's fine, even salutary. But sometimes the truth-seeking we do is kind of superfluous.
(I'm just writing this so it doesn't sound like I was just snarking about HN.)