🤪 Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

#motive #politics #EponymousLaws
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

Today I learned that according to the Betteridge's law of headlines, "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no". Thank you!

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Gall’s Law

Das von John Gall schon 1975 in seinem Buch Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail aufgestellte Gesetz, ist eine der vielen wichtigen Faustregeln, die jeder System-Architekt und Software-Entwickler kennen sollte. Obwohl schon fast 50 Jahre alt, wird es von vielen Kollegen stoisch ignori

https://schegge.de/2023/04/galls-law/

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Morbius's Law of New New Media Platforms

The first topic of discussion shall be of the platform itself, what it is, what it isn't, and how its design shapes those roles.

Add in healthy quantities of tugging from all sides trying to shape their own pet platform of choice.

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/h4mxsk6nc35gluucgdkrqw

#EponymousLaws #NewNewMedia #twexit #twexodus

@julianruf Clark's Law:

Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

Same page also suggests (via LessWrong) a filter:

• Never assume malice when stupidity will suffice.
• Never assume stupidity when ignorance will suffice.
• Never assume ignorance when forgivable error will suffice.
• Never assume error when information you hadn't adequately accounted for will suffice.

Therefore, never assume malice when information you hadn't adequately accounted for will suffice.

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@tindall Hanlon's Whetstone

Sometimes it takes so much effort to be stupid, the malice is implied. Just, not necessarily in the direction you think.

-- salawat @ HN
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27671365

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Doreen's Law: Societal complexity increases to the limits of general psychological breakdown.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27271452

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Hanlon's Handgun: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by systemic incentives promoting malice.

-- @temporal @ HN
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21691282

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