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Effort economy of slop

A reframing of "slop" as a transfer of cognitive cost: content whose consumption requires more effort than its production. The mechanism is analogous to enshittification, but operates at the level of an individual artifact rather than a platform: cheap material burdens the recipient with verification. The framing was developed by Leon Furze (March 2026).

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