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Hugh Hunter's avatar

The philosopher in me wants to object that this goes against the principle of parsimony. The objection would say that the most likely conspiracy theory is the one that allows us to keep the most of our old beliefs, which are reliable because they are tuned to the way the world is. But then I think the post has a response: what if our beliefs are so warped and corrupted from decades of official lies and degeneracy and propaganda that you would be better off starting from scratch? So this is sort of like Descartes concluding that his beliefs were unsalvageable and he needed to start from scratch. Except via conspiracy theory. Cool.

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Kelly Em's avatar

if I was managing a moonshot, and I knew from photographic surveys, some of the strange things, that exist up there, I would hire Stanley Kubrick, to make realistic footage, that I could use to prevent my adversaries from knowing the truth, of their own true history. So the moonshots are a both and situation. Yes the moon has been thoroughly explored, at least. Yes Kubrick made the films. His motivation was a promise from the powers that be that they would leave him alone to make his movies without interference. I think he made the right move. The powers that be became interested in him because of Dr. Strangelove. They were astonished how accurate the B-52 cockpit was. They were alarmed about how accurate his airplane sequences were.

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