> Brandolini's law, also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle, is an internet adage coined in 2013 that emphasizes the effort of debunking misinformation, in comparison to the relative ease of creating it in the first place. The law states the following:
> The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.
The problem of trolling is that it is used to shut down opponents by using this law. I agree that it's better to clean it, AS LONG AS you don't have people who intentionally flood the debate with bad-faith arguments, and this is what is AI would do since it automates bad-faith.
That's why we call it the devil's advocate: because nobody should advocate for the devil.
I meant root-wise - not instances. You work for the progress of civilization. And automated waste is like innocent or malicious waste: you will find it around in copious loads and you have to train the public to manage it.
> That's why we call it the devil's advocate: because nobody should
Actually, we must. You always perform checks to consider counterpoints. We did use dialectics in the context where the expression was born because that is correct heuristics. You do not decide about Attila the Hun (in our context - nor of Louis the Pious, in the historic context for the expression) just on the basis of current prejudice, of somehow consolidated fame. You are mandated to check whether you may be wrong, and you wonder so explicitly.
But this is relevant to real arguments. You are not supposed to expect the bot to say something with truth value or sharpness value. (And this remains the issue with said technology.)
> Brandolini's law, also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle, is an internet adage coined in 2013 that emphasizes the effort of debunking misinformation, in comparison to the relative ease of creating it in the first place. The law states the following:
> The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.
The problem of trolling is that it is used to shut down opponents by using this law. I agree that it's better to clean it, AS LONG AS you don't have people who intentionally flood the debate with bad-faith arguments, and this is what is AI would do since it automates bad-faith.
That's why we call it the devil's advocate: because nobody should advocate for the devil.