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"A substantial fraction of the world’s most brilliant, competent, and empathetic people ... spend their lives serving Marl" that is a logical fallacy because smart people don't waste their time on something as useless as that.



That's not what a logical fallacy is


"A logical fallacy is an error in reasoning that occurs when invalid arguments or irrelevant points are introduced without any evidence to support them."

invalid argument => x people doing y where x is "brilliant" and y is "serving Marl". Serving Marl is not brilliant. It doesn't count to work for a FAANG company to be considered brilliant, at least by my standards and view on how time is well spend.


Yeah, that's cool and all, but

a) a logical fallacy is a particular pattern of invalid argument, not just an argument that is invalid. So just on like a semantic level, an individual argument can't be a fallacy, though it can commit one.

b) fallacies are invalid inferences by construction. You just don't agree with the premise in this case (and are also implicitly proposing a second premise that doing something not-brilliant means a person is not themselves brilliant)

And most importantly c) whether or not working for a FAANG company is "brilliant" is entirely a question of your opinion.


a) I googled my description. Does it really matter if you use a verb or an adjective to convey the message?

b) One is brilliant when doing brilliant things, and stupid when doing stupid things. A chainsmoker stops being a smoker until he reaches for the next cigarette.

c) yea I explicitly wrote "at least by my standards and view on how time is well spend"


Surely you understand the underlying message about perverse or mis-aligned incentive?

Are you familiar with the fallacy fallacy?


Do you mean that the author meant it in a sarcastic way? My impression was that the author meant it in a literal way.

You are saying I shouldn't describe the whole sentence as fallacy because in any case, part of it is true? I don't know that doesn't go well with writing sneering comments.




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