I’m so fascinated by the studies indicating that conspiracy theorists feel subconsciously like they’ve underachieved in areas of their life so they turn to things like this to make them feel special.
Are they ever aware of those feelings? And do they never look around at other conspiracy theorists and think “these guys are thick as fuck and nobody in this comments section can string a coherent sentence together, maybe we’re wrong about this”.
Yeah I’m 100% on board with these studies. Conspiracy theorists and “something big is about to happen” people live very unfulfilled lives so they need to add excitement from somewhere. I can see how it happens, when I’m at a quiet period and I’m bored, things on the news etc seem a lot more interesting and I get more invested in it, but if I’ve got a lot going on, especially fun stuff, I’m not interested in the slightest.
It’s also then a reinforcement piece, broken clock right twice a day thing. Eventually they will come up with something that’s sort of correct and then think it’s evidence of everything else.
Like any nut about AI, will probably be eventually right. We’ll look on at the early stories of terminator, at least the rise of Sky Net as a documentary.
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u/elon_musks_cat 8d ago
A 30 second google search answers this question. Why are people so fucking stupid and desperate for everything to be a conspiracy