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“Everything is a conspiracy theory when you don’t know how anything works.”
Mike Masnick riffs on this excellent Hank Green video about ballot design and lands the best shot at “first principles thinking” I’ve read in a while:
Elon Musk, somewhat incredibly, seems to lack the basic intellectual curiosity to ever try to seek out why something is the way it is. He always assumes he can somehow “reason from first principles” as to why things are the way they are. This makes him ever more susceptible to the dumbest fucking conspiracy theories around. He’s constructed for himself a media environment mostly designed to reinforce those biases, rather than challenge them.
Worth a read!
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