What would be a good equivalent of Occam's razor to capture conspiracy theory construction?
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"conspiracy theory" is poor terminology, I like this guy's thinking collativelearning.com/conspiracy%20t
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sorry, you're stuck with it. Fighting is it like 'ethical hackers' trying to make 'crackers' stick. Linguistic quixotics.
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Hanlon's Razor is, roughly, Occam's Razor for conspiracy theories
miniver.blogspot.com/2013/04/hanlon
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Occam's beard, because that is what happens when Occam's razor isn't used! (Someone else came up with this first)
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The most satisfying explanation is the one most worth defending on all fronts.
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In the future, enough clarity is possible, and likely, that people literally *know* why things happen as they do.





