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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oh I'm not proposing an alternate term - just that it's a boring slur rather than anything precise
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seems precise to me: the enabling premise is always collusion among a set of hidden conspirators, no?
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Which is basically every event, ever. "Bush did 9/11" is a conspiracy theory. So's 9/11 Commission's timeline. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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So I'm with . It's precise in the sense "polygon" is precise. But since almost everything is technically a polygon...
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...it's pretty much useless except in the negative ("this formula describes an ellipse, one of the not-polygons")
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pure bullshit. Polygon 9s a useful base class that allows you to talk about many general ideas, like the area formula
tons of theorems about polygons that allow lots of cool things to be studied: tesselations, convexity, optimization
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