Originally Posted by
timhau
It's a consequence of living in a fact-free world.
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I don't think if it so much as a fact-free world, but a post-fact world. Facts are still there, just harder to find. I compare it a lot to the entropy problem, Just like disorder is more likely than order, falsehood is more likely than truth. In both cases it's generally the same mechanism: There's only one (or a limited number) of combinations/answers that are orderly/true, and a much higher number that are not. Getting them truthful/orderly takes work.
Call it Hellbound's Three Laws of Deceit:
1. Falsehood can be created and destroyed
1. The falsehood of any un-isolated information system always increases
2. The falsehood of any system approaches infinity as the number of unrestricted contributors increases