knowledge sorta has a distinction from raw information as having verifiability (which is the same thing as falsifiability). remixing information more often is going to degrade it from knowledge to mere information with a low signal level. there is centuries, maybe millenia of study into this subject, and much of it is ignored by science people because it's "religion". just one simple example is quantum and relativistic physics - taoism and zen buddhism both have whole collections of paradoxes and rules that provide tools for evaluating the signal level of information. and this particular anecdote is quite hilarious - the human temptation to designate something as a revolutionary upgrade from past methods, when usually it is at best covering the problem space differently, and not encompassing it any better than before, is one of the marks of the hubris of scientists who have rejected the ability to contemplate their system models objectively, by rejecting the philosophical and spiritual basis of the system, that they refuse to accept because of preconceptions, that prevent them actually seeing it. they focus on their glorious cleverness and in that, lose touch with reality.

Thanks for this. I’m reminded of the importance of spiritual work alongside intellectual work.

also, this is a game theory asymmetry problem. making bullshit is cheap. verifying what is true, is expensive, this is based on the same principle as hash functions and signature algorithms, which are cheap to produce (because you know the secret) and expensive to reverse (because you can only brute force guess at the secret number of the encryption). it also refers to the fact that accurate information is scarce and valuable. making the pile of candidates bigger doesn't really change the number of "true" statements that was muddled to generate bullshit. that's why we now have the information overload problem in our society, that just got orders of magnitude worse because manufacturing bullshit is now practically without cost, and the firehose nature of this raises the cost of verification a lot further. but really, while it may seem like the Deceivers have got the upper hand here, in actual fact, what has happened is the premium for truth has just gone up by several orders of magnitude.