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neyatoday at 4:31 AM2 repliesview on HN

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."


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salawattoday at 5:55 AM

Hanlon's Razor is especially effective at getting Good people to put out their own eyes to keep them nice and soft targets for the malicious. I'll take being a harder to find likable by people I have no desire to be liked by to make myself a harder mark. The honest ones will understand. The malicious were never worth being close with, and I'm doing the world a service by getting the borderline enlightened.

Sufficiently advanced stupidity being indistinguishable from malice is also something to keep in mind.

poloticstoday at 5:50 AM

well in my experience mostly you get either:

- stupidity

- stupidity and malice