Editing Responsible Conspiracy Theorizing (section)

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=== 2019 ===

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|content=I would love to debate fellow IDW member @michaelshermer on '''responsible conspiracy theorizing''' for adults. Could be a blast. Michael you are welcome on the portal any time to discuss this.
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|content=Wait, what? This is a totally adorable 2019 tweet! Be sure to tell, @1971Film, @carlbernstein, @danielsheehan45, @HarryMarkopolos, @ErinBrockovich, etc. and let me know how you make out. But be sure to read all documents at: https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/about/ first.

This *never* goes away.
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|content=Conspiracy theories are there for people who can't handle or solve real world problems.
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|timestamp=4:37 PM · Aug 21, 2019
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=== 2020 ===

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|content=I am looking forward to making a LOT of apologies. Nothing would make me happier as a '''responsible conspiracy theorist'''. 

I have been told of metallic samples with strange mixtures of elements not found in nature by respected professors in STEM and did not know what to believe.
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=== 2022 ===

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|content=[[Morals|Moral]]: some people seem to see meaning &amp; pattern everywhere. Others seem to demand proof because they believe that it’s all likely our imaginations. Don’t be like those groups of people.

Take on the true burden of trying to sort out what is real but hidden vs what is imagined.🙏
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|content=The city of Aix-en-Provence is not without an architectural…
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|content=…sense of humor.
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|content=…but then in Aix, once you see one AIX or X reference, you start seeing things everywhere that may or not be real.
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|content=This is a simple model of what goes wrong in most models of “conspiracy theorizing”. I don’t know how to say that the building pictured is almost certainly an “architectural conspiracy” to spell AIX while the gate is not. I have no idea about the crossed metal beams.
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|timestamp=12:01 PM · Jul 21, 2022
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=== 2024 ===

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|content=There is an old suite of ideas from a different time:

What appears to be coordinated is actually emergent.

What appears to be malice is actually incompetence.

What appears to be a pattern is generally random.

What appears to be doable outside of markets isn’t worth attempting because it can’t be coordinated and/or it is against human nature and/or has too many unintended consequences. 
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When enough people were educated to believe that suite as a sign of membership in the sophisticated elite, it then became possible to weaponize those ideas because they all shared a hidden feature: enervation.

People too sophisticated to believe in conspiracies, blame, patterns or the possibility of change will not only tend to do nothing, but they will tend to ensure that nothing can be coordinated around them except by narrow self interest. Which means markets/commerce/business is the only thing left.

In this clip, “Is Google trying to influence the 2024 election.” Chris is struggling to point out that it doesn’t require a conspiracy. Of course that is true.

But it is much more helpful to notice that if you have a portfolio of explanations and with allocations to emergence vs coordination, it would be insane to have a zero allocation to conspiracy. 

[[Morals|Moral]]: Learn how to be a [[Responsible Conspiracy Theorizing|responsible conspiracy theorist]]. There are no lizard people. But there are sure a lot of back channels and algorithms you know nothing about. 

NOTE: Zuckerberg’s letter pointing to such a coordination in an earlier election appeared after this was taped. So…

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