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Is wishful, conspiratorial thinking designed to simplify a staggeringly complex and scary world into one where a great, singularizing evil has caused all of this.
I'm probably going to have to keep bringing this up given Lemmy's appalling tendency toward unsubstantiated "contradictory evidence is only evidence of how deep the conspiracy goes!!" thinking (see: this one, where evidence that it's Epstein's writing is actually evidence that they trained an LLM on Epstein's writing, roping anti-AI into it too*), but Dan Olson's video essay "In Search Of A Flat Earth" discusses this kind of simplifying thinking to a T when describing QAnon.
There was a now-removed post earlier on /c/politics with like a 45:5 upvote ratio from some random dipshit's Substack claiming (with zero real substance or qualifications) to analyze the note and conclude that it was written by Donald Trump himself. The average Lemmy user, like most people on social media, are intellectually lazy idiots.
* Edit: I just want to point out that by 2019 standards, training and using an LLM to convincingly fake a suicide note from a specific person by compiling their previous correspondences and shoving them into an LSTM or a relatively new transformer model would be vastly more difficult (intellectually and effort-wise, and probably with worse results) than just fucking reading some of the previous correspondences and deliberately throwing in some writing quirks. That may not be what happened, but if you're going to believe it wasn't Epstein's writing, don't be a total fucking moron about it: at least believe something vaguely plausible.