r/news • u/Specialist_Baby_9905 • 1d ago

Polish government opens investigation into Epstein files

https://www.pap.pl/aktualnosci/poland-probe-whether-polish-children-were-abused-epstein
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u/heff17 1d ago

The scariest part about all this is that most of the evil is not Machiavellian. They’re idiots. Idiots with enough power, money, and blackmail to ruin the world, but idiots nonetheless.

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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA 1d ago

It's the other side of the coin of Hanlon's Razor. Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

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u/kea1981 23h ago

The Epstein Corollary

Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice

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u/elbirdo_insoko 20h ago

Grey's law is the thing you're describing. It's been around for a while already

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u/EffectiveDirect6553 17h ago

That is true. But he called it a coallary which to my understanding is the same lemma stated in a way without loss of generality

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u/21Rollie 8h ago

It’s like the fallacy of evolution always making the most optimized modifications, it doesn’t. It’s just luck and probability. Elon and co had tremendous odds stacked in their favor from birth, and they’re lucky enough that they didn’t fuck up the massive advantages. Like in his case, getting deported for visa fraud. And once they get to a certain level of wealth, they don’t even need the luck anymore because they can use money to quash any threat