Bullshit: the collapse of the wave function of ambiguity that happens when you try to apply deterministic logic to probabilistic realities
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Consensus bullshit is unstable because you can penetrate, work around, and undermine it with some effort. Bullshit diversity is the problem.
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'The opposite of a great truth is also a great truth.' - Bohr. The opposite of bullshit though, depends on degree of consensus around it.
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Opposite of high-consensus bullshit is plurality of notions of truth vs phony at the margins. Many Holden Caulfields, mutually incompatible.
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Opposite of low-consensus bullshit requires Brandolini's Law to compute: it takes 10x work to refute than to create bullshit
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So as everybody engages in refutation attempts but false short on effort, bullshit gets worse. So opposite of low consensus bullshit is...
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...even lower consensus bullshit at the margins. This is unstable entropy increase due to lack of any 'truth pump' going the other way
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If truth were the only victim here there'd be no issue. Humanity existed stably (if miserably) for millennia under high-consensus bullshit.
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Unfortunately low-consensus bullshit cannot even serve the one function high-consensus bullshit serves: providing a source of meaning.
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This is why nihilism is correctly defined not as emptiness, but as 'memes, memes, memes, memes....'pic.twitter.com/F12SuVT7BW
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I tried to compress this idea into a single aphorism earlier: The Void abhors a vacuum. Unpacking in this thread because it's too cryptic
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