One hard thing about Twitter is differentiating between ideas you're really confident in and ideas you're just throwing out there. For the former, I just cite lots of data and links. But as for the latter, making people realize I'm just being speculative is really hard.
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Example of idea I'm really sure about: The late 60s and early 70s featured rapidly increasing social divisions despite very low levels of immigration.https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1105179102007386114 …
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#TestAndTrace Smith 🐇Verified account @Noahpinion1/I'm so exasperated by the idea that low immigration produces social and cultural cohesion that I'm going to write a thread about how nuts this idea is. When was the foreign-born population at an all-time low? The 1960s and 1970s. How cohesive were they? pic.twitter.com/XfYIFyS9TjShow this thread6 replies 4 retweets 48 likesShow this thread -
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Example of idea I'm not sure about at all: Engineers in Silicon Valley are feeling ennui due to the lack of a big transformative new IT product.https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1104910381217046528 …
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#TestAndTrace Smith 🐇Verified account @NoahpinionI noticed that an increasing number of my engineer friends don't seem very excited about working in the tech industry anymore. I asked one why this was true, expecting him to give a politics-related answer. Instead, he said "Tech isn't creating the Next Big Thing anymore."Show this thread12 replies 1 retweet 46 likesShow this thread -
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From my POV (techie, but paid to work on open source rather than company products), it's more that the glorification of ad based business models is wearing off. Lot easier to work for organizing-world's-information-don't-be-evil google, than the real private-data-is-valuable one.
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Coming down from the "everything's great, we're fixing the world" (which was naive from the get go, but it is/was hard to resist because it's sold as that *everywhere*) just means you're going to be disappointed by reality.
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Replying to @AndresFreundPol @Noahpinion
Ah. The growing up years.
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