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What's with the recent uptick in UFO article postings in HN?
by xnull 12y ago
What's with the recent uptick in UFO article postings in HN?
- empraptor 12y agoMaybe it's marketing for an upcoming UFO movie.
- xnull 12y agoMaybe. Hadn't thought of that. My first though was spooks trying to discredit the reputation of the community as 'paranoid' and 'fanciful' given all the good and informative conversation regarding Snowden and other disclosures here lately. Crossing my fingers a good UFO flick is on the way.
- itsameta4 12y agoThat was your first thought?
- xnull 12y agoWell no. It went more like this: Does HN really believe in UFOs? Let's assume for the time being no. Is the sudden influx of UFO articles then based on HN popularity or is there a campaign to introduce this content (these campaigns are common, although I do not know how popular on HN)? Let's assume for now that the articles are part of a campaign. What group with what motivation would benefit from said articles. My first thought here was in fact TLAs/spooks. But only on entertaining the hypotheticals. A 'viral campaign' for a UFO movie is also pretty reasonable, IMO. If you were to entertain the two hypotheticals, what would you think?
- krapp 12y ago>My first though was spooks trying to discredit the reputation of the community as 'paranoid' and 'fanciful' given all the good and informative conversation regarding Snowden and other disclosures here lately. You do realize this is by definition both paranoid and fanciful?
- xnull 12y agoYeah I do. Although it is pretty tame on the spectrum. Certainly it is a more reasonable speculation than alien contact (low hurtle to jump). For the record I don't believe this is the case. I do reserve the right to adknowledge it as a possibility with a small posterior probability in anticipation of additional priors.