> ... bullshitters misrepresent themselves to their audience not as liars do, that is, by deliberately making false claims about what is true. In fact, #bullshit need not be untrue at all.
> Rather, #bullshitters seek to convey a certain impression of themselves without being concerned about whether anything at all is true.
> ... it can eventually undermine the practitioner’s capacity to tell the truth in a way that lying does not. #Liars at least acknowledge that it matters what is true...

It's great to start reading of #HarryFrankfurt's work on #Bullshit.^1

I just learned of it while reading a conversation between #JuliaAngwin and #ArvindNarayanan^2about #AISnakeOil. It keeps making me think of #NeilPostman's Amusing Ourselves to Death, and marketing... lack of humility, "irrational exuberance"..

^1 https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691122946/on-bullshit
^2 https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2023/01/28/decoding-the-hype-about-ai

On Bullshit

#1 New York Times bestsellerFeatured on The Daily Show and 60 MinutesThe acclaimed book that illuminates our world and its politics by revealing why bullshit is more dangerous than lying