Informational Entropy: When More Data Makes You Blind

More information does not automatically produce more clarity.

At scale, it produces distortion.

In this episode of Crime: Reconstructed, we examine informational entropy — the condition in which the volume of data exceeds the mind’s ability to discriminate signal from structure. When that threshold is crossed, investigations do not become cautious. They become confident.

This episode explores:

Why accumulation feels like progress

How combinatorial expansion overwhelms analytic capacity

Why data should eliminate possibilities — not multiply them

The difference between aggregation and constraint

How entropy converts impossibility into probability

Why subtraction is the discipline that protects truth

Modern investigative environments reward volume. Dashboards fill. Link diagrams expand. Systems correlate endlessly. But visual complexity is not structural clarity. When cases grow more intricate with every new artifact, something has broken.

Evidence should compress reality, not inflate it.

The full written reconstruction — where the structural mechanics of informational entropy are mapped and tested — is available on the Crime: Reconstructed Substack.

Audio establishes the frame.

Writing does the work.