2008-10-15 Conspiracy's Uncanny Valley

2008-10-15 Robin Hanson Overcoming Bias \conspiracy theory\9/11 anomaly denial\Loose Change http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/10/conspiracys-unc.html Conspiracy's Uncanny Valley Conspiracy's Uncanny Valley &ldquo;My guess is that standard stories about events like 9-11 are quite wrong about one time in a hundred or thousand, and that due to mole effects they are probably wrong more often on the very largest events. Loose Change being surprisingly persuasive then had me estimating about a one in ten to thirty chance....&rdquo;  My guess is that standard stories about events like 9-11 are quite wrong about one time in a hundred or thousand, and that due to mole effects they are probably wrong more often on the very largest events. Loose Change being surprisingly persuasive then had me estimating about a one in ten to thirty chance standard 9-11 accounts were quite wrong on an important point. And this put me uncomfortably in conspiracy's "uncanny valley".   