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Excellent review and analysis! I watched the original video (about the time-stamp) yesterday and someone in the comments section said about the same (that ther
by powertower 12y ago
Excellent review and analysis!
I watched the original video (about the time-stamp) yesterday and someone in the comments section said about the same (that there is a bug in the system).
But I wouldn't label the original poster a conspiracy theorist over this.
It's perfectly normal for someone to assume YouTube is working as it should, in which case, seeing the early time-stamp should definitely set off some question marks.
In combination with the current regime's use of indiscriminate violence, misinformation, and downright lies, it reasonable to question anything they put out.
- ajarmst 12y agoWhen "elaborate multi-agency government conspiracy" and "off-by-one bug in non-critical section of code" are your two competing theories, both Occam's Razor and Hanlon's Razor (two important rules of reasoning) compel the selection of the latter. So it's not really "normal" (if by that you mean reasonable) for someone to assume that YouTube is elaborately bug free if that requires the existence of shadowy conspiracies that are unsupported by other evidence.
- A_COMPUTER 12y agoThere seems to be two ways to apply Occam's Razor. The first, used by people actually tasked with investigating something, is to prioritize exploration of simpler explanations before more complex ones. The second, more commonly used by Internet bystanders, is to treat it like an iron law, immediately cut off all alternate avenues of inquiry and give people degrading labels. Occam's Razor is best as an investigatory rule of thumb and not a thought-terminating cliche.
- makomk 12y agoIn this case, even the most cursory attempt to explore the simple explanation would've shown it was the right one, though.