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		pwdisswordfishq 9 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening ... > You're assuming malign motivations, I'm assuming misplaced ones. Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

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butlike 9 days ago | [–]

And sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

I'm not seeing the point.

MichaelZuo 9 days ago | | [–]

Bingo, it’s pointless trying to suss out beyond a certain threshold.

Just assume it’s a mix.

moffers 9 days ago | [–]

Or, to put another way, “never attribute to malice what can be explained by ignorance”

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