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Is there a law/principle of life that states something along the lines of "most of a certain thing/information pattern is shit/low quality, and there are a very few amount of patterns that are absolutely superior? I see this pattern all the time.

>> No.9709573

Uh well it takes more effort to make something of high quality, and “effort” is a scare commodity, right

>> No.9709579

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law

>> No.9709600

Theodore Sturgeon, SF writer, stood at convention and announced "90% of SF is crap!"
As the enraged mobs started forwards, he clarified, "90% of EVERYTHING is crap!"

>> No.9709610

Surprised to see Fortran (Not FORTRAN, not since 1990) so high, I was expecting it to be near the bottom.

>> No.9709668

>>9709610
Those are "popularity" rankings.
Fortran isn't terribly useful for writing smartphone apps.
But if you just need to crunch numbers at high-speed, I still don't know anything better.

>> No.9709835

Pareto principle?

>> No.9709837

>>9709835

This.

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>>9709568
That would be Hawking Radiation.