> I no longer spend as much time pausing to critically think about it
And why wouldn't you? HN is perfectly capable of making arguments with incredible force in a very eloquent and hard to refute way. And be dead wrong anyway.
You can never abolish critical thinking, either about the original article (especially when criticism is based on un-sourced data) or about the comments themselves.
That doesn't save you time, it adds to the amount of data you have to do your critical thinking about.
And why wouldn't you? HN is perfectly capable of making arguments with incredible force in a very eloquent and hard to refute way. And be dead wrong anyway.
You can never abolish critical thinking, either about the original article (especially when criticism is based on un-sourced data) or about the comments themselves.
That doesn't save you time, it adds to the amount of data you have to do your critical thinking about.