What would be a good equivalent of Occam's razor to capture conspiracy theory construction?
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Replying to @vgr
"conspiracy theory" is poor terminology, I like this guy's thinking http://www.collativelearning.com/conspiracy%20theories%20-%20contents.html …
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Replying to @literalbanana
sorry, you're stuck with it. Fighting is it like 'ethical hackers' trying to make 'crackers' stick. Linguistic quixotics.
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Replying to @vgr
oh I'm not proposing an alternate term - just that it's a boring slur rather than anything precise
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Replying to @literalbanana
seems precise to me: the enabling premise is always collusion among a set of hidden conspirators, no?
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Replying to @vgr
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
@literalbanana. It's precise in the sense "polygon" is precise. But since almost everything is technically a polygon...2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
...it's pretty much useless except in the negative ("this formula describes an ellipse, one of the not-polygons")
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Replying to @CTZN5
I could easily come up with a clean tech defn of conspiracy in terms of multiagent systems with specific information structures...
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...that could then be used to prove many interesting things. In fact I worked on problems adjacent to this for years. Huge lit there
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Replying to @vgr
Sure, specific polygons, patterns, etc. My point was just, "that's a polygon" is something that should never be heard past gradeschool
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And I'm sure you are trying to formulate something specific and interesting, so I think we're all kinda talking past each other maybe
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