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Don't attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity/incompetence/ignorance.
by yawz 8y ago
Don't attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity/incompetence/ignorance.
- estebank 8y agoThe corollary being that sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.
- jachee 8y agoThat's fantastic. Do you happen to have an attribution?
- armandososa 8y agoIt should be called the estebank corollary from now on.
- estebank 8y agoI can't claim it, as it is just a conjunction of Clarke's third law and Hanlon's razor :)
- mortenjorck 8y agoI can't find an actual citation (apart from Wikipedia, which cites a book), but it's known as Grey's Law.
- estebank 8y agoIt seems to be "Grey's Law", but with hazy attribution. It is a conjunction of Clarke's third law and Hanlon's razor.
- colordrops 8y agoAnd the other corollary is that the malicious use the phrase to fool the stupid.
- astrodust 8y agoOr more appropriately: Never attribute to some grand conspiracy theory what can be attributed to people just trying to make an extra buck by cutting corners.