The marketplace of ideas doesn’t reward truth.

It rewards engagement.

And dead ideas are great at getting clicks, because they’ve been simplified, mythologized, and emotionally weaponized.

The marketplace of ideas doesn’t reward truth.

It rewards engagement.

And dead ideas are great at getting clicks, because they’ve been simplified, mythologized, and emotionally weaponized.

https://paragraph.com/@signalvs/the-persistence-of-dead-ideas

I write about tech + humans + philosophy. Farcaster OG. FID 3305 founder of /theindex 

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