Excluding people sucks hard, and with some exceptions people don't like to do it. It's painful, and it tears at the community. But if you acknowledge that perhaps yes there is a Problem, well--you almost have to, don't you? If it becomes common knowledge Action is obliged.
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So the easiest thing to do is simply Not See it as hard as you can. This is tempting in any situation, and perhaps overwhelmingly so if the cost of solving the Problem is very high. What if you lose your job? Your career? So maybe you get people like Weinstein.
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anyway, something to think about as you watch your reaction the next time you hear someone whisper the words "electoral fraud"pic.twitter.com/9ES1FnE4Ts
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Replying to @eigenrobot
this is almost precisely equivalent to using the missing stair argument to justify "believe all women"
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the methods being used to "detect" fraud (or smoke, in the analogy) are at least as useless as the methods used to figure out which foods give you cancer sometimes much more useless, like regressing A against A + B / 2
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and it's also clear that no fraud is going to make the difference necessary to flip the outcome
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you need to flip multiple states by tens of thousands of votes, and you need to not have any countervailing fraud
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Replying to @AlexGodofsky @eigenrobot
none of the people doing this crap are even checking the opposite sign because they are delusionally motivated reasoners does fraud exist? yes should 4chan get any credibility in looking for it? no
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yes many people are clearly motivated in the other direction and insane i have criticized them as well
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"insane people believe x" is not a dignified argument against the existence of x
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the argument is not that fraud doesn't exist; there's absolutely a positive quantity every election the problem is that virtually all the sleuthing has no informational value same as studies that tell us what we think is probably true ; the study is still useless
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