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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Dec 2016
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      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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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Dec 2016
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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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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Dec 2016
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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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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Dec 2016
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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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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Dec 2016
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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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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Dec 2016
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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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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Dec 2016
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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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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Dec 2016
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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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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Dec 2016
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      Unfortunately low-consensus bullshit cannot even serve the one function high-consensus bullshit serves: providing a source of meaning.

      1 reply 2 retweets 6 likes
    10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Dec 2016
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      This is why nihilism is correctly defined not as emptiness, but as 'memes, memes, memes, memes....'pic.twitter.com/F12SuVT7BW

      5 replies 8 retweets 30 likes
      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Dec 2016
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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

      10:20 AM - 11 Dec 2016
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