Evidently, a five-year-old article, one I hope will foster discussion in the HN community about what's changed in the last five years especially given the meteoric rise of LLMs.
Can't assume people would have bought your content simply because they consumed it for free. Feels as alien to me as saying "if aeroplanes didn't exist I would have swam to Fiji for my holiday"
Such a common fallacy, surely there's a good name for it?
Seems mostly like Argumentum Ad Speculum or Affirming the disjunct, but would be nice to have a more specific term