Thinking about how many of the responses to this tweet are lol you can& #39;t fool me, this was totally planned! No way did your bot actually randomly generate something this relevant!
I think a lot of people don& #39;t realize how common is is for random things to seem relevant. https://twitter.com/louanben/status/1325465040749793280">https://twitter.com/louanben/...
I think a lot of people don& #39;t realize how common is is for random things to seem relevant. https://twitter.com/louanben/status/1325465040749793280">https://twitter.com/louanben/...
After the race was called for Biden, it rained in LA and there was a rainbow. Random coincidence! Our brains connected the two things bc our brains are just really good at connecting things. It is both a gift and a curse of being human.
But I& #39;m thinking about this because of how this tendency to connect things can sometimes collide with a sort of smug cynicism and drive people right into conspiracy theory land.