Against "Stochastic Terrorism" - by Scott Alexander
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“Stochastic terrorism” is the idea that if you spread fear and mistrust against a target, then eventually people will commit violence against that target, and it will be your fault, even if you never specifically said the words “you should commit violence”. Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry@pegobry_en Again, creating a spreadsheet to accuse someone of killing others is a self-evidently absurd exercise, whose only possible motive is to be used to incite political violence. This is stochastic terrorism, and nothing else. Jerusalem @JerusalemDemsas Elon Musk bragged about feeding USAID into the "wood…
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