I absolutely don't underestimate what you can do with the tiniest fragment of data. I say this in the absolute most objective way that people who tend toward believing in conspiracy theories tend to be people who can establish patterns from miniscule amounts of data. They can see narratives from scatterplots.
I am definitely one of those people, in fact, despite not following you down this particular rabbit hole.
The problem is, of course, that those patterns are often subjective, and sometimes patterns can be drawn from the random and routine.
Such people also tend to have masterfully beautiful and complicated interpretations of the shapes of clouds, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the cloud is arranged in that particular shape for any particular reason.
I don't reject the complexity of the tapestry that you believe supports your beliefs. I just don't currently believe in the robustness of many of the threads with which the tapestry is woven. I am willing to be convinced, but you tend to want to stay in the more abstract top-level conversation rather than establish whether most of the facts you're using are actually as factual as you believe.
I feel like I have a better understanding of (and have demonstrated a better understanding of) this than you are giving me credit for, but yes, I follow your reasoning so far.
I may not be able to reply more today, but I will read what you post tomorrow.
I absolutely don't underestimate what you can do with the tiniest fragment of data. I say this in the absolute most objective way that people who tend toward believing in conspiracy theories tend to be people who can establish patterns from miniscule amounts of data. They can see narratives from scatterplots.
I am definitely one of those people, in fact, despite not following you down this particular rabbit hole.
The problem is, of course, that those patterns are often subjective, and sometimes patterns can be drawn from the random and routine.
Such people also tend to have masterfully beautiful and complicated interpretations of the shapes of clouds, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the cloud is arranged in that particular shape for any particular reason.
I don't reject the complexity of the tapestry that you believe supports your beliefs. I just don't currently believe in the robustness of many of the threads with which the tapestry is woven. I am willing to be convinced, but you tend to want to stay in the more abstract top-level conversation rather than establish whether most of the facts you're using are actually as factual as you believe.
Yes.
I feel like I have a better understanding of (and have demonstrated a better understanding of) this than you are giving me credit for, but yes, I follow your reasoning so far.
I may not be able to reply more today, but I will read what you post tomorrow.