For all her pearl-clutching about harassment, is embarked on her own harassment campaign—trying to intimidate a whole platform () into respecting her personal preferences.
But the real story is much bigger. (1/7)
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Prestige editorial once solved a coordination problem for high-society; it provided a focal point, the basic premises which all high-society players could assume all the other players would respect. (2/7)
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For people like —whose status is based on sponsorship by prestige institutions—their only raison d'être is the historical inability of other high-status people to calibrate and distribute their beliefs independently.
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The Clubhouse app is profound because it allows high-status individuals whose status is based on superior belief-calibration (especially successful founders and investors) to calibrate their beliefs privately. And also, paradoxically, to an audience, at the same time. (4/7)
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To her credit, is smarter than most of her peers in prestige activism-journalism. She understands her career will be threatened by any technology that allows high-status people to determine what’s true without prestige mediators such as . (5/7)
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So vs. isn't interesting as a beef, but as a bellwether.
If one person with an imprimatur can suffocate an awesome new communication platform, I'd fear Cancel Culture is just beginning.
If she can’t, I'd say we might be passing its peak. (6/7)
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I hope everyone starts to see that the payoff to accurate, collective belief-calibration is so much greater than the cost of negative influencer campaigns.
Behind closed doors, nobody takes these careerist moral crusades seriously.
Place your bets accordingly. (7/7)
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A certain class of elites doesn't bother trying to actually be 'first'; they're secure in the knowledge that they'll show up early enough to be ahead of the crowd, and with enough influence to take control.
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