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It's the bullshit era.

The truth doesn't even matter. It's not factored in. Even liars care about the truth enough to deceive you. Bullshit is worse than lying.

We disagree? Ok. You believe your facts, I'll believe mine. We can scream into the void with our respective audiences.

It's hard to maintain the energy to seek the truth because there is so much bullshit. The peddlers of it are filling every single form of media with it. Every text box on every webpage and in every app is an invitation to add more of it to the world.

I think people get overwhelmed by it. And you have to have the bullshit cop on your shoulder exhorting you to care. It takes time and energy to care. Most people are too tired. So we let things slide. We stop listening to the bullshit cop. We become more selective. We care about the truth in some contexts but not others. It's survival.



Bullshit asymmetry principle: it takes less energy to produce bullshit than it does to refute it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law


I think about that a lot while trying to read PRs that Copilot Agent has created




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