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>Never attribute to malice with what can be explained by stupidity Hanlon's razor
by DINKDINK 11y ago
>Never attribute to malice with what can be explained by stupidity
Hanlon's razor
- arca_vorago 11y agoIs a logical fallacy that is overused and hardly ever true, and should be relegated to the dustbin of intellectual discourse where it belongs.
- jonathankoren 11y agoIt's not a logical argument. It's more of a heuristic of human behavior, which tends to be right. Only rarely is there someone sitting behind a large desk making tent hands while laughing maniacally. EDIT: On second thought, if it is a logical argument, it's a specific case of Occam's Razor. Which is more likely? Someone made a mistake, or there is a grand conspiracy?
- nitrogen 11y agoHere's another fallacy: the fallacy of the excluded middle or the false dichotomy. There are many alternatives on the spectrum between "mistake" and "grand conspiracy".
- mortenjorck 11y agoExactly. These include such situations as: - a mistake where misaligned incentives are against fixing it - a questionable decision exacerbated by a mistake - malice on the part of an external actor plus internal incompetence (essentially all data breaches)
- orbitingpluto 11y agoWith the modern anti-corollary: neoliberalism.