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>It's closely related to Brandolini's law, that the amount of energy it takes to create bullshit is an order of magnitude higher than the energy it takes to ref

• vinceguidry 7y ago
  Perhaps, though I would call it a converse or inverse rather than an opposite. Either are close relations. You can't be a thing's opposite unless the two of you share a lot together. North has more in common with South than it does with East.
  • jacobush 7y ago
    Entropy is a harsh mistress. Easier to burn down than to rebuild.
    • vinceguidry 7y ago
      Yeah. The intriguing thing about knowledge and the study of it, epistemology, is that once discovered, it doesn't just go away. It sets the world on fire and burns away cruft. Bullshit can be seen as both the cruft that gets burned away by true knowledge, or the fire that demolishes old ways of understanding, however true. To see it the other way, imagine attacking the hegemony of the Catholic Church with incisive bullshit. Small societies have their reactions to the larger one and the veins of bullshit they'll propound onto the larger. By the time you or I see a particular incarnation, it's already been through numerous iterations. We can't have witnessed the genesis of Pizzagate, but we know that idea has to have one and the subsequent generations until it reached final, grotesque, form. These ideas are self-defense weapons, shields against an onslaught of 'liberal' ideology.
• pathseeker 7y ago
  Yes. https://ordrespontane.blogspot.com/2014/07/brandolinis-law.html https://ordrespontane.blogspot.com/2014/07/brandolinis-law.h... "The bullshit asimmetry: the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."
• vinceguidry 7y ago
  Oh, didn't catch that you were pointing out a typo, lol.