It’s so frustrating to see an otherwise intelligent person believe in conspiracy theories. I just don’t get it.
Do they tend to be the same people who don't understand emergent behavior and systematic effects?
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No, and that’s the scary and sad part. Like I said, otherwise very intelligent and capable of logical reasoning. Seems some kind of mental bug/exploit. :(
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Yeah. And vulnerability to one is strongly correlated with vulnerability to others. First wifi cancer, next neo-nazi...
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It seems natural that, if you can't grasp how dumb incentives could lead individually powerful people all to act in ways that further particular ends, you might conclude there's some kind of intelligence behind it.
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See also: evolution and intelligent design.
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