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> well, yeah. if you ignore all the crazy, what's left isn't crazy. why is that surprising? Come on, you gave an example of "really genuinely nutty stuff" your
by scintill76 11y ago
> well, yeah. if you ignore all the crazy, what's left isn't crazy. why is that surprising?
Come on, you gave an example of "really genuinely nutty stuff" yourself: '"the government reads your email on their secret moon base staffed by hitler clones"'.
I'm not saying I agree with GP exactly, but you're strawmanning it into a tautology when you seem to know exactly what was really meant.
- tedunangst 11y agoI am saying that theories without predictive power are generally worthless. (this is true in many fields.) it is not enough to be right all along. if you want to be credible, you need to avoid being wrong all along, too. real example. the theory that the NSA secretly poisoned the DES s-boxes to introduce a backdoor. People insisted that's what happened without any evidence. They were wrong all along. Later, when dual-EC came along, I think people were a little skeptical it was really a backdoor precisely because of the DES story.
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