Indeed, I posted this quote partially out of annoyance at a certain type of analysis I kept seeing in the MoR threads. Namely, person X benefited from the way event Y turned out; therefore, person X was behind event Y. After all, thinking like this about real life will quickly turn one into a tin-foil-hat-wearing conspiracy theorist.
Namely, person X benefited from the way event Y turned out; therefore, person X was behind event Y.
Which is exactly what MoR tells us to do to analyze it, is it not?
Here's the new thread for posting quotes, with the usual rules: