Occam's beard, because that is what happens when Occam's razor isn't used! (Someone else came up with this first)
What would be a good equivalent of Occam's razor to capture conspiracy theory construction?
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lol so maybe Occam’s Santa?
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The most satisfying explanation is the one most worth defending on all fronts.
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"conspiracy theory" is poor terminology, I like this guy's thinking http://www.collativelearning.com/conspiracy%20theories%20-%20contents.html …
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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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the best hypothesis is usually the one the fewest people believe
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Hanlon's Razor is, roughly, Occam's Razor for conspiracy theories http://miniver.blogspot.com/2013/04/hanlons-razor.html …
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New information makes crackpot "theories" diverge to multiple possibilities, rather than converge toward a clearer explanation
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Hmm. A complete one may also be corollary to Sturgen's Law + Hanlon's Razor, & similar to anthropomorphic fallacy but for complexity.
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Could also be something like Apophenia and related [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia#Related_neologisms …]. At scale they seem to spread thru a sort of moral panic.
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