"Noun 1) A process put in place to diminish the quality of something that was considered to be of high quality.
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Get the Gimplification mug.The Internet Amplification Effect is the effect the internet has on certain individuals and on society at large of taking traits that are within the person or society in question and, when exposed to the internet on site comment sections or forums, amplifies those traits to extremes.
Steve in real life is a political moderate, but when on the internet due to the Internet Amplification Effect he becomes a radical.
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Humans increase their knowledge and wisdom and are smarter in making decissions by pooling their knowledge with other people and with computers.
Humans increase their knowledge and wisdom and are smarter in making decissions by pooling their knowledge with other people and with computers.
He may not be the smartest guy on Wall Street but his intelligence amplification techniques greatly increase his ability to think. Now with a lot of moral amplification he should be able to use his moral compass to chart a new course in life.
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Get the <.7.9.7.6>Implificacion, implifIcacion, implificacion<.7.9.7.6.> mug.The much darker meaning behind something that seems harmless or trivial. You must think of the implications. A musical seems harmless and trivial, but when that musical is where everyone is forced to sing by aliens that control you brain and turn people into singing zombies, you really must think about the implications.
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Get the timplification mug.A pervasive cognitive bias and metabias, especially rampant in social media comments and replies, where complex, multi-dimensional issues—spanning technology, science, politics, history, and society—are aggressively reduced to simplistic logical formulas that sound reasonable but actually function as conversation-stoppers. The sufferer deploys phrases like "that's not logical," "it's too easy to make conspiracy theories," or "it's hard to build" as universal solvent, dissolving any claim that exceeds their narrow frame of reference without engaging its substance. This bias typically couples with Truth Bias (assuming one's own perception captures the whole truth) and Objectivity Bias (treating one's culturally-conditioned reasoning as universal reason itself).
The logical simplifier doesn't argue against specifics—they argue against complexity itself. Presented with speculation about advanced technology, they respond with generic difficulty assertions. Confronted with political possibility, they invoke governmental messiness as if chaos precluded capability. Faced with any claim outside consensus, they deploy the "conspiracy theory" label as automatic disqualifier. The bias lies in treating these logical-sounding simplifications as sufficient responses, when they actually bypass the difficult work of engaging evidence, possibility, and the vast territory between "proven fact" and "obvious nonsense."
The logical simplifier doesn't argue against specifics—they argue against complexity itself. Presented with speculation about advanced technology, they respond with generic difficulty assertions. Confronted with political possibility, they invoke governmental messiness as if chaos precluded capability. Faced with any claim outside consensus, they deploy the "conspiracy theory" label as automatic disqualifier. The bias lies in treating these logical-sounding simplifications as sufficient responses, when they actually bypass the difficult work of engaging evidence, possibility, and the vast territory between "proven fact" and "obvious nonsense."
Example: "When someone suggested the government might have energy weapons, he didn't discuss the physics or history—his Logical Simplification Bias fired instantly: 'it's hard to build, government is messy, so not logical, it's easy to make conspiracy theories.' He'd reduced decades of classified research, unknown technological progress, and genuine historical secrecy to a sound bite that made him feel rational while learning nothing."
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