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by furyofantares 163 days ago
If you tautologically define "best" as "that which wins", sure.

There's many ways for something to be better than another thing, though, and a lot of stuff is winning because it's best at "engagement" even if it's really bad in many other ways.

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> If you tautologically define "best" as "that which wins", sure

Spot on. By OP’s metric, we should shift all agricultural and pharmaceutical production to heroin.

I've seen some straw-men in my day but "OP wants to shift all agricultural production to heroin" might be an all-timer.