philosophical adage stating "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
Hanlon's razor is an adage, or rule of thumb, that states: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." It is a philosophical razor that suggests a way of eliminating unlikely explanations for human behavior. It is purportedly named after one Robert J. Hanlon, who submitted the statement to Murphy's Law Book Two: More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong! (1980).
Origin
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).