Post #1953040
2026-04-27 15:08 UTC
@mattly
I don't think Hanlon's Razor was intended to let anyone off the hook. Just because incompetence on its own can sufficiently explain a problem doesn't mean it's no longer a problem, nor does it mean that you accept the frame that allows the incompetence to go unchecked.
Rather, Hanlon's Razor helps you prevent conflating the problem with its perpetrator, because doing so makes the problem harder to solve: The minds of people you approach in bad faith are harder to change.
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