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Comment by techblueberry

21 hours ago

You think we should appeal to authority rather than address the ideas on their own merits?

How is saying the author has “slopbrain” is “addressing the idea on its own merits”? It’s just name calling.

  • They aren't addressing my comment (which is obviously an overreaction to the tweet), he's asking you why we should appeal to authority rather than evaluate whether Karpathy is completely overreacting and in way too deep.

    • The intent of my comment was to state that you should write something more substantive than dismissing Karpathy as “slopbrain”. I wasn’t appealing to authority by saying that he was correct — just that he deserves more than name calling in a response.

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