A sharper definition of slop: information consumed without a matching gain in understanding
signulll · x · 2026-10-13
signulll offers a more useful definition of "slop": it's what happens when consuming information fails to produce a corresponding increase in understanding — not simply content made by a machine. "It's not the machine's fault at all."
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