{"id":50415,"date":"2022-09-03T01:00:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=50415"},"modified":"2022-09-02T09:54:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T13:54:19","slug":"qotd-the-severian-corollary-to-hanlons-razor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/09\/03\/qotd-the-severian-corollary-to-hanlons-razor\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The Severian Corollary to Hanlon&#8217;s Razor"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 15px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Y&#8217;all are doubtless familiar with &#8220;Hanlon&#8217;s Razor&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A while back I wrote that this needs an update, and being a humble guy, I named it the &#8220;Severian Corollary&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>There&#8217;s a level of stupidity so profound, you actually <strong>hope<\/strong> it&#8217;s malice.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Severian, <!--<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottenchestnuts.com\/quick-take-the-severian-corollary\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">-->&#8220;Quick Take: The Severian Corollary&#8221;, <em>Rotten Chestnuts<\/em><\/a>, 2019-07-31.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Y&#8217;all are doubtless familiar with &#8220;Hanlon&#8217;s Razor&#8221;: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. A while back I wrote that this needs an update, and being a humble guy, I named it the &#8220;Severian Corollary&#8221;: There&#8217;s a level of stupidity so profound, you actually hope it&#8217;s malice. Severian, &#8220;Quick Take: The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,41],"tags":[1065,82,1462],"class_list":["post-50415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-dunningkrugereffect","tag-murphy","tag-severian"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-d79","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50415"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76114,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50415\/revisions\/76114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}