{"id":29544,"date":"2020-07-13T18:42:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T23:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=29544"},"modified":"2020-07-13T18:42:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T23:42:30","slug":"is-it-complexity-or-just-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/07\/13\/is-it-complexity-or-just-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Complexity Or Just Terror?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is something I’ve been meaning to look at for a while, and WaPo<\/strong><\/em> dumped<\/a> it in my lap:<\/p>\n

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Here we see President Trump’s alleged lies on a time series graph: how many per month. It’s apparent that the average number of lies appears to be increasing, although, since months are not the same size, there’s a bit of vapor involved; weekly would have been better, while daily, which is an option, turns out to be too granular.<\/p>\n

Of course, data like this demands an explanation even as it provokes outrage. I speculate there are three possible explanation, non-exclusive. The first is the obvious: the more stress President Trump feels, the more he lies. Thus, the peaks prior to the mid-terms and during the impeachment process.<\/p>\n

The second is an effective liar must maintain integrity. That is, if a liar takes an opportunity to lie, now they must continue to tell that lie. While cultists will tolerate<\/a> being lied to without regard to integrity, independents may take a dim view of losing track of one’s lies.<\/p>\n

Finally, a third reason: the network effect. Assertions often have relationships with each other, and a lie is an assertion that just doesn’t happen to be congruent with reality as it’s widely known. A lie can force more lies on other subjects, simply in order to have it all make sense. This is, in fact, the construction of a narrative: a collection of assertions that should contain a story arc, true or false. Where one lie exists, there can easily be more to support the first, and soon they must be repeated – at least for a politician of Trump’s sort.<\/p>\n

So it seems unsurprising to see the average slowly rising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is something I’ve been meaning to look at for a while, and WaPo dumped it in my lap: Here we see President Trump’s alleged lies on a time series graph: how many per month. It’s apparent that the average number of lies appears to be increasing, although, since months \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29547,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29544\/revisions\/29547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}