The Bullshit Asymmetry Principle" (Brandolini's Law)¶
Brandolini, A. (2013). The Bullshit Asymmetry Principle" (Brandolini's Law).
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Primes¶
- Asymmetric Attack Defense Cost
- In misinformation, producing a viral false claim costs minutes while the fact-checking response costs trained labor and reaches a fraction of the original audience — the famously bad ratio that Brandolini's law captures as one instance.
This sourceNames the production-cost asymmetry between misinformation and its correction.
- In misinformation, producing a viral false claim costs minutes while the fact-checking response costs trained labor and reaches a fraction of the original audience — the famously bad ratio that Brandolini's law captures as one instance.
- Verifier-Prover Asymmetry
- A particularly useful move the pattern supports is recognising the inverse case, where for certain claim classes — misinformation, for instance — refutation cost exceeds production cost; Brandolini's law sits at the opposite end of the asymmetry direction, and identifying which direction a given activity runs in is itself a sharp diagnostic.
This sourceThe energy needed to refute nonsense is an order of magnitude larger than to produce it — the inverse direction of the find/verify asymmetry.
- A particularly useful move the pattern supports is recognising the inverse case, where for certain claim classes — misinformation, for instance — refutation cost exceeds production cost; Brandolini's law sits at the opposite end of the asymmetry direction, and identifying which direction a given activity runs in is itself a sharp diagnostic.
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