What would be a good equivalent of Occam's razor to capture conspiracy theory construction?
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Replying to @vgr
"conspiracy theory" is poor terminology, I like this guy's thinking http://www.collativelearning.com/conspiracy%20theories%20-%20contents.html …
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Replying to @literalbanana
sorry, you're stuck with it. Fighting is it like 'ethical hackers' trying to make 'crackers' stick. Linguistic quixotics.
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Replying to @vgr
oh I'm not proposing an alternate term - just that it's a boring slur rather than anything precise
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Replying to @literalbanana
seems precise to me: the enabling premise is always collusion among a set of hidden conspirators, no?
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Replying to @vgr @literalbanana
also... What do you define as a 'slur' anyway? Objections to slurs as a basic position seems, well... a flavor of PC
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slur = no real content except (negative) connotation applied to a broad category of reality
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