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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 28 Oct 2015
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      A sincere belief in the plausibility of large-scale (n>150, Dunbar's number say) secrecy is the main clueless trait in conspiracy thinking

      16 replies 34 retweets 63 likes
    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 28 Oct 2015
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      I suspect you could discover a constitutive law relating the speed with which a secret is leaked and the number of people who know it at t=0

      5 replies 10 retweets 21 likes
    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 28 Oct 2015
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      Human fraud/deceit detection evolved I think for accuracy at small hunter-gatherer group sizes, intuitions way off at larger scale

      1 reply 3 retweets 8 likes
    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 28 Oct 2015
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      There is a scale of secret-keeping beyond which it is easier to slow the diffusion by adding noise to leaks rather than trying to contain it

      2 replies 6 retweets 11 likes
    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 28 Oct 2015
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      This is the FUD point of a secret. D-Day involved FUD-defense of adding noise of Calais as landing location to keep Normandy less plausible

      1 reply 2 retweets 6 likes
    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 28 Oct 2015
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      When the energy/financial signature of a secret is too big to be hidden, you have to start "hiding" it in a sea of half-plausible accounts

      2 replies 3 retweets 5 likes
    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 28 Oct 2015
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      Ironically, at this stage, conspiracy theorists are part of the *mechanism* of keeping secrets, not people who reveal them

      3 replies 10 retweets 26 likes
    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 28 Oct 2015
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      Cryptography is just the nerdy-sexy tip of iceberg of sociology of secrecy. Steganography and conspiracy noise-mixing are higher-order arts

      6 replies 8 retweets 18 likes
    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 28 Oct 2015
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      Secrets don't leak when they hit NYT. That's the commoditization. They leak with first unauthorized knower exploiting it for unintended gain

      2 replies 2 retweets 7 likes
      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 28 Oct 2015
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      Okay, final thought in this on-the-DL tweetstorm: all mathematics is a conspiracy theory about the universe.

      11:59 AM - 28 Oct 2015
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        1. Bill‏ @Plot49 28 Oct 2015
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          @vgr I'll have to think about that. I may be some time. @pynchoninpublicpic.twitter.com/NcqUrZabev

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        2. Maria Chong‏ @mariachong 28 Oct 2015
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          @vgr @jamesmcn True in both: "Content to [mathematicians] is irrelevant: they are interested in form only." Poincarépic.twitter.com/GtxGnnLmle

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        3. Maria Chong‏ @mariachong 28 Oct 2015
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          @vgr @jamesmcn That is, it's not quantities/facts that matter in math and conspiracy theories: all about relationships of objects.

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        1. മെല്ലെ, മെല്ലെ പോവൂ.‏ @LenteCurrite 28 Oct 2015
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          @vgr You know Plato's cave metaphor? There is a Platonic view of mathematics.

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        1. Will Bickford‏ @wbic16 28 Oct 2015
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          @vgr reality is a group delusion about the nature of computation and thought

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