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I despise Hanlons razor. It flies against everything we know about people in power. Probably made popular by powerful
by imwillofficial 4y ago
I despise Hanlons razor.
It flies against everything we know about people in power.
Probably made popular by powerful
- vorpalhex 4y agoIt was designed by a Reptillian scientist who was sponsored by the crab people from Mars. Though it may seem like a plot against humanity, it's actually just a market ploy to cause a run on aluminum foil head pieces, engineered by Big Haberdashery. And we all know what Big Haberdashery likes to engineer.
- imwillofficial 4y agoMy favorite comment this week
- pessimizer 4y agoNo, the powerful just leave out the "adequately" part, and it becomes "Unless you have access to physical evidence that something was intentional, every mistake in our favor was inadvertent."
- pmarreck 4y agoThere's a better, less-oversimplified discussion of Hanlon's Razor over here: https://fs.blog/mental-model-hanlons-razor/ https://fs.blog/mental-model-hanlons-razor/ "An instance of Hanlon’s razor being proven wrong is the mafia. Prior to the 1960s, the existence of the mafia was considered to be a conspiracy theory. Only when a member contacted law enforcement, did police realize that the malice being perpetrated was carefully orchestrated." (I was not aware of this!)