all "facts" are useless by definition

[Altruist]

Problems:

1. Category error (semantic confusion)
   “Fact” is an epistemic category (a proposition that is true or taken as true under some epistemic framework). “Useless” is a teleological/evaluative predicate. There is no analytic bridge that makes “fact → useless” a definitional relation.
   
2. Self-refutation risk
   If the statement is a “fact,” then by its own content it is “useless,” which undermines its asserted philosophical purpose. If it is not a fact, then it is just a rhetorical flourish, not a thesis.
   
3. Overgeneralization without scope conditions
   Any defensible version would require domain restriction (e.g., “facts alone, without theory or interpretation, do not determine action-value”). The universal quantifier “all” makes it implausible.
   
4. Misuse of “by definition”
   “By definition” claims are strong analytic claims. This is not derivable from standard definitions of “fact” in epistemology, philosophy of language, or science studies.
   

you know what's brutal? i'm pretty sure the guy isn't lying about his education (he is exaggerating some aspects at worst)