Cryophilia@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoTIL about Brandolini's Law: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it."en.m.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up1664arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1660arrow-down1external-linkTIL about Brandolini's Law: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it."en.m.wikipedia.orgCryophilia@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square34fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaresinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoI have a few things in my reading backlog about bullshit. I think that it tends to be trivialized in social discurse. It honestly feels like the patterns of bullshit exploit built in biases we have. This is my future starting point for when I leave some room to this topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit
I have a few things in my reading backlog about bullshit. I think that it tends to be trivialized in social discurse. It honestly feels like the patterns of bullshit exploit built in biases we have.
This is my future starting point for when I leave some room to this topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit