[perihelions]

Then they are illogically boosting a hoax on purpose, or at least with reckless disregard for truth.

[username332211]

Or they want knowledge of the hoax to spread, so as to protect the victim against further lies?

[zahlman]

Just because you don't consciously believe something to be true, doesn't mean you don't care about its veracity. The null hypothesis is that people are willing to treat things as true based on their priors — which could be informed by things as simple as "this was posted on a website not known as a den of misinformation, and shared on HN" — while not actually devoting thought to an investigation of the truth.

[nailer]

> "this was posted on a website not known as a den of misinformation, and shared on HN"

I don't know whether you mean Threads or Bluesky but it sounds like you haven't used either.

[natch]

Yeah I have peeked into both and have never seen such a strident collection of vituperation, misinformation, and hatred. For people who claim to have left Twitter due to supposed toxicity, they definitely seem unacquainted with mirrors.

[vpribish]

Or not engaging enough to come to any conclusion - just chuckle - upvote. Useful, but not idiots nor villains

[pengaru]

If your goal is to burn down tesla/musk, you logically promote everything remotely damaging.

And there are plenty rational reasons to have that goal.

[dkiebd]

It’s funny that I just read the thread on rationalism and then come back to this one and someone posted this flawed nonsense.