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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Recently thought about how this one xkcd has probably done more recruiting for the rat community per unit effort spent making it than that 700k word salad.
Where are we on xkcd? I havenāt looked at it regularly for over a decade now. Nothing personally against the author or comic itself, I just completely deconverted from consuming nerd celebrity content at that point in the past.
I think itās important to remember that Bayes was a real guy and bayesian statistics is a real useful thing even though Those Guys made it their religion. And they donāt really understand bayesian statistics anyway.
I still read xkcd regularly and think itās pretty good. I donāt think āweā as a community need to have a particular opinion of Randall Munroe or his work but personally I think he seems alright and I enjoy the things he makes.
Seems like a stretch to assume that comic does anything to recruit rationalists. If youāre not already in the rat pipeline itās just a pretty good joke about probability and if you are, itās still a better example of Bayesian reasoning than whatever the rats pretend to do.
He kind of left his prime I think, the humor becoming alternatingly a bit too esoteric or a bit too obvious, and kind of stale in general. Nothing particularly objectionable about the author comes to mind otherwise.
maybe this just betrays that i donāt know shit about fuck, but it feels like this xkcd would make more sense if the frequentist did the experiment more than once
I follow it on RSS, itās sometimeās funny but not required reading.
I donāt think you can blame the comicās author for people on HN and elsewhere passing around references to specific comics to make their points.
As to the specific one mentioned here, I donāt remember reading it before.
edit to add sometimes itās obvious the entire joke is in the alt-text, like so: https://xkcd.com/3143/