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sufficiently advanced incompetence

2024-09-09 19:19:51.52654+02 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

Mike Spooner @shelldozer@oldbytes.space

An old witty paraphrasing of Arthur C Clarke's "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" when applied to the maxim "never attribute to malice that which can be explained as incompetence":

"Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice"

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#Comment Re: sufficiently advanced incompetence made: 2024-09-14 15:32:52.08184+02 by: Definitely Not a Bot

I always have said "never attribute to incompetence that which can be explained as malice masquerading as incompetence".