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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
it IS critical thinking. there is NO DIFFERENCE between the mental activity a "conspiracy theorist" is engaging in and the mental activity of making sense of the world that we are all engaging in all the time
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Louisa 🌈👭
@LouisatheLast
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Reading a Reddit AMA with a former Q believer and he had a really insightful thing to say: “Conspiracy theory thinking hooks the brain because it feels like critical thinking.”
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@meaning_enjoyer
The greater the amount of what is currently known about the world that must be falsified (and not merely false) - the less likely it is. That plans go sideways frequently - and the longer a scheme requires perfect co-ordination, the less plausible it is.
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