Tech writer Timothy Lee lists his biggest wrong calls: blogs vs journalism, 2008 macro
binarybits · x · 2026-09-12
Prompted by seeing young people overconfident in theories he thinks are wrong, tech writer Timothy Lee (binarybits) shares two of his own past bad calls: believing the internet would help journalism because blogs with higher epistemic standards would replace legacy outlets ("lol"), and holding 2008 macro views similar to Ron Paul's ("LOL").
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