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At the same time, interesting that downtime can give rise to conspiracy theories. Hmm maybe people are always looking for patterns (humans as "pattern finding
by cutemonster 3y ago
At the same time, interesting that downtime can give rise to conspiracy theories.
Hmm maybe people are always looking for patterns (humans as "pattern finding machines"?), and if there's a maybe-pattern, the thoughts start flowing. (A good thing usually I suppose)
Maybe it's good to avoid accidentally creating patterns
Or, could be fun to intentionally create pointless nonsense patterns :-)
- willis936 3y agoIt's a bit of confirmation bias and recency bias. Uncorrelated things might appear correlated if you limit yourself to a small sample size.
- verticalscaler 3y agoThis is a misuse of the word conspiracy. Hopefully a good faith one. I'm fully aware that the pattern as I observed could be a coincidence. At the same time I have been able to browse logged in from another browser or my phone 100% of the time, so HN wasn't down, just for this user. It isn't a stretch to assume the eye of Sauron fell upon me. Hence I offered people try it out experimentally and decide for themselves. Certainly we can agree more data is necessary, there is no need to paint me as paranoid.
- cutemonster 3y agoOh sorry I don't think you are. I've probably thought in similar ways some other times, elsewhere about something else. Maybe most do, some times. (Hmm looking in the dictionary, I think it looks like an ok word choice?)