Big Data: when it is cheaper to store data than to decide what to do with it. Big Bullshit: when it is easier to spread BS than to filter it
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Rising levels of bullshit in the world can be explained by social media turning crowds into distributed Big Data stores.
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Brandolini *almost* figured it out with his law: "it takes 10x more effort to refute bullshit than to create it."
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And 2: BS has an additional positive property of being easy to repeat (memetic strength). This allows it to replicate on social networks
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This is replication both in the sense of genes and database storage technology.
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can you say why not both problem types? First you need to test falsifiability in order to separate information from bullshit, right?
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man that's a 2015 tweet you're responding to. I barely remember what I was thinking last week.
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