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by TonyStr 140 days ago
Does this make conspiracy theorists highly intelligent?
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gylterud 140 days ago
No, but they emulate intelligence by making up connections between seemingly disparate things, where there are none.
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Earw0rm 140 days ago
They make connections but lack the critical thinking skills to weed out the bad/wrong ones.

Which is why, just occasionally, they're right, but mostly by accident.

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