The Internet you Know is Dying

And the bullshit asymmetry principle explains why

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You should familiarize yourself with Brandolini’s Law — which is not a law, but rather an accurate observation about people and venues and information.

Also named the bullshit asymmetry principle, the statement is that:

“The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than is needed to produce it.”

Another way to read this: Idiots multiply faster at a mind-numbingly quicker pace.

You see it on most Quora questions, or Youtube comments, or Facebook pages, or anywhere a large number of people gather digitally. For every interesting comment with a decent set of ideas, you’ll get 10–100 comments that are filled with garbage, incorrect information, and hardly any coherence in thought.

Many times, you’ll find that answers which are harmful or completely incorrect end up getting many more views. The internet has more dead links, dead space, and dead information today than it has ever had in the past. This doesn’t mean that the internet is dead, but it means that information and the way it is presented are changing.

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