Might be the conspiratorial part of my brain coming through, but I’m half convinced it’s not just a stupid person, but an AI that completely missed the point.
I almost wonder if there shouldn’t be an extension or corollary of Hanlon’s Razor somewhere to account for AI.
“Never attribute to malice that which can be better explained by stupidity, but never attribute to stupidity that which can be better explained by malicious chatbots.”
Does have me wondering what the ratio looks like when applied to isolated (maybe mildly inbred) communities.
As in, there’s a lot of genetic variety for humans as a whole, but maybe less so for communities that, uhh, don’t get out much.
The site was started by people who wanted to make a convenient image host for Reddit back when Reddit did not directly host any media, but it’s a separate venture and Reddit later added their own image hosting capabilities.
It’s not perfect, but the basic idea is that assuming malice as default in every scenario will cause one to spiral into paranoia.
It’s not saying “people are never malicious and always just stupid” but just asking someone to take a step back from the situation and ask which is likelier in context.