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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"The term 'conspiracy theory' if used logically...would be about as useful as the terms 'corruption allegation' or 'suspected crime'"
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those seem useful terms to me. They do pick out a subclass from a larger class...
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fact that insti academics who use CT as slur tells you they have bias against belief in power of elites=egalitarian values
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alternatively tells you they have bias against believing that systems can be radically diff + worse than they appear
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yup, so much interesting info payload in the status/emotion valences.
Slurs threaten via violence latent in them. High empathy=slurs of any sort will distress. But they have BITS
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banana doesn't like slurs on principle because she is way too kind 😄
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