because it's less depressing. I'm proposing a corollary to Occam's razor called avs postulate: 1) The likelihood of an explanation being true is correlated wi

because it's less depressing. I'm proposing a corollary to Occam's razor called avs postulate: 1) The likelihood of an explanation being true is correlated with how boring it is 2) crazy conspiracy theories are a useful exercise with which to guide convergence and formal presentation of evidence of 1.