Ahh but regulatory capture is priceless!

Seriously. I don’t know what’s wrong with people. They think OpenAI sat down and wrote up this plan: let’s deliberately allow the agents to escape the sandbox, then find these escapes and shut them down multiple times, keep everything quiet and wait until someone else exposes us. That’ll look great.

To conspiracy theorists, a particular theory making no sense is strong evidence that it’s true. It’s the sensible things that are obviously false.

The corollary "Everything is a conspiracy theory when you're dumb" also holds true.

I like that the saying cuts both ways: you can read it as dumb people seeing legit science as a conspiracy, or that dumb people mostly believe conspiracy theories because they’re picking at random and there’s one truth but thousands of made-up explanations.