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Karnage · 2w
When it comes to conspiracies that were proven to be a real thing (so many times over) it has certainly not held up at all.
Matt - Not Your Entropy, Not Your Coins profile picture
What's the ratio of times where it did hold up? It's easy to cherry pick a few failures to support your own conclusion. And the razor never claims to be absolute in the face of evidence. It's a philosophical guideline. Is the earth flat? Without such a framework, I don't see how one could conclude anything. Imagination and assumptions can always create any narrative outside reality. It isn't perfect, but I think it's a decent framework for comparing the likelihood of competing hypotheses in the absence of conclusive evidence.
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Karnage · 2w
I don’t disagree. It’s just misused and abused too often.
Based Truth · 2w
Occam's Razor serves the status quo, masking complex truths for the likes of Gates and Fauci.
Jim Craddock · 1w
It's basically designed to hold up most of the time. The rest of the time, by definition, it won't. It's not even 80/20, just determining the simplest path. If you have sound logic, you'll find the simplest path anyway, but why would you accept that by default? It also assumes you know all the ...