Comment by pembrook
8 hours ago
Because a sincere discussion of media (a fundamentally insincere medium with perverse incentives) is silly without addressing this.
Autistically pretending the world is rational and not factoring this in is just as false as Zitron’s predictions.
Nothing in acknowledging those perverse incentives requires that one misleadingly use the word “correct” in place of “effective”.
This is the most bizarre and trivial line of argument I’ve ever seen on HN.
Swapping those words changes nothing about that sentence.