Only if the two are binary quantities (present/absent). If we consider them in degrees (at least None/Low and High) then this says there are situations where this or the other or the combination is the cause. I immediately thought of examples... 1/
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...whenever I had to get something done in a typical (Indian) government office. If I had assumed malice alone or incompetence alone (and there were those cases), but there was a combo at play, my approach would have not succeeded. 2/2
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Recently discovered Hanson’s inverse razor as well: never attribute to incompetence that which can be adequately explained by malice (esp. re. politics)
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Kept wondering what the aloe strip was after you tweeted this. Current attempt:https://twitter.com/backus/status/1015012061166764032 …
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Point taken -- though in most cases, wouldn't we prefer incompetent malice to effective malice?
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