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Okay, I agree that the fake moon landing conspiracy would have involved an excessive amount of competence to believe. That seems pretty different from, "If you
by aetherson 4y ago
Okay, I agree that the fake moon landing conspiracy would have involved an excessive amount of competence to believe.
That seems pretty different from, "If your entire plan is to back out of a contract, add a clause to the contract that lets you back out of it."
- runarberg 4y agoIndeed it is different. My point was simply that incompetence is not evidence against conspiracy. My sniff test was simply emphasizing this point. Further, a sniff test is—by definition—not supposed to be your only marker in evaluating a theory, it is merely supposed to be a marker determining if evaluating further evidence is even worth your time. The conspiracy theory that Musk is using this twitter scheme to manipulate the markets in his favor does not fail any sniff tests that I’m aware of.