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CMV: Humans aren’t good enough to execute large conspiracies

I simply feel this way for 2 reasons:

1) Humans are not smart enough
2) Humans cannot keep their mouths shut


Take 9/11 for example.  There are some really thought out conspiracy theories surrounding it.  A lot of those theories are very smart plans, which make sense and definitely connect a lot of dots together logically.  But I mean, really?  Are humans smart enough to actually think all of that through beforehand, execute it with 100% precision, and still have every single person involved keep it a secret?

It takes just 1 person to spill the beans.  It takes just one drop of human error to make the entire plan crumble.

People can’t even keep their mouths shut if they hear news like “Tom is coming back to blink-182”.
gpt
Ever hear the parable about the pencil? How nobody knows how to make a pencil?

It's an illustration of the wonder of markets and division of labor. There are thousands of people involved in the production of a pencil. There's the guy at the end of the last assembly line who puts the eraser on top, but he doesn't know how the eraser is made, or where the graphite comes from, or how the brass ferrule is stamped and rolled out, etc. And the guy harvesting latex from the rubber tree is thousands of miles away and he has no idea he's helping to make a pencil.

No one person knows how to make a pencil. And yet, pencils get made. Did thousands of people *conspire* to make it? Just the fact that a pencil is *desired* and someone is willing to pay for one sets this whole supply chain in motion to produce it.

Some things we interpret as "conspiracies" could be just like the pencil. Thousands of people are involved but most don't even know it. Some have only a vague understanding of a small part of the whole plot. Very few people need to know the critical details. This is the exact reason for the phrase "Need to Know". Intelligence agencies use the fact that most details of most operations don't need to be shared in order to actually accomplish the goal. There are much fewer secrets to keep that way.