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It's not a conspiracy theory to suggest something that companies do all the time, and that intel regularly has and will probably continue to do. #2 does not ex
by dnautics 6y ago
It's not a conspiracy theory to suggest something that companies do all the time, and that intel regularly has and will probably continue to do.
#2 does not explain the single channel DDR thing.
- faeriechangling 6y agoUsing the phrase "conspiracy theory" to simply describe theories about conspiracies is pretty common nowadays, the phrase doesn't have an inherently perojative connotation. Just because it's true does not mean it is not a conspiracy theory. Study showing the phrase "conspiracy theory" doesn't alter people's judgements of a situation: https://psmag.com/news/has-conspiracy-theory-lost-its-negative-connotations https://psmag.com/news/has-conspiracy-theory-lost-its-negati...
- lupire 6y agoThat study is interesting, but us an extremely synthetic testing environment, where everything in the experiment group was called a "consipiracy theory" in a synthetic research prompt, not measuring how peopld respond to actual usage of the term. "Being in a study" may have as large an effect on the result as "attitude toward the term "conspiracy theory".
- dnautics 6y agoif you wanted the non-perjorative form you would say simply "conspiracy" without the word "theory".
- henriquez 6y ago> #2 does not explain the single channel DDR thing. Dell has done that on Intel systems for as far as I can remember. Buy the cheapest machine they sell and it's par for the course. This isn't something they do to nerf AMD performance, it's something they do to hit a particular price point, and they always have.