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Clarke's Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by ignorance.

Salter's Corollary: Any sufficiently advanced ignorance is indistinguishable from malice.

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@jimsalter I may have this framed. I’m not even kidding :-)

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@jimsalter This seems adjacent to something I'm used to saying. "Either they don't know better or they're being an asshole and I'm not sure which scares me more".

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@wizzwizz4 it's "like" both, which is why it's a corollary of the two.

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@jimsalter No, I mean, J. Porter Clark's law.

Google Groups link (because they ate the Usenet archives): https://groups.google.com/g/news.admin.misc/c/PQa10ERLuVs/m/Z1kVmGDuXlkJ

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@jimsalter There’s also the inverse to Clarke’s third law which goes: “Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology. “ ( … and a few other variants)

And so the inverset to your corollary would be:
Any sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from ignorance 😛
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