The bullshit asymmetry: the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it¶
Alberto, B. (2013). The bullshit asymmetry: the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it: the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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- Brandolini's Law
- The colloquial framing ("the bullshit asymmetry") and Brandolini's original 2013 statement were about online debate, but stripped of that vocabulary the pattern is asymmetric cost between corruption and correction on a shared, propagating channel.
This sourceOriginal articulation of Brandolini's law (the bullshit asymmetry principle) — the asymmetric cost of producing versus correcting a claim.
- The colloquial framing ("the bullshit asymmetry") and Brandolini's original 2013 statement were about online debate, but stripped of that vocabulary the pattern is asymmetric cost between corruption and correction on a shared, propagating channel.
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