[adolph]

HN has a diverse set of viewpoints. For any assertion one might make, there will be someone with the opposite viewpoint.

In addition to out-and-out opposition or agreement that sounds vaguely oppositional, a comment might call for a pedantic annotation, a tangential aside or book recommendation.

[basil-rash]

Don’t forget the unconstructive meta-analysis.

[adolph]

  sudo !!

[alexsereno]

This is a wonderful example

[Dylan16807]

Okay, glad you made it impossible to write a comment that disagrees with yours.

You know what they say about things that aren't falsifiable, they're definitely correct!!

[TeMPOraL]

> You know what they say about things that aren't falsifiable, they're definitely correct!!

Ah, the ol' Hitchens's movie night: "what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed with popcorn".

[adolph]

That Hitchens quote is pithy and snow-clonable but demonstrated an impoverished and static epistemology. It is circular and self-falsifying by respectively assuming the existence of “evidence” independent of the assertion’s observation bias and not obeying its own assertion.