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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness May 20
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      The socially defined behavior of electronic components. What it means to be a 100 Ω resistor is inherently nebulous, and negotiated and renegotiated between manufacturers and customers. By @robamacl http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ram/art/essay/components/ …

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    2. mrgunn‏ @mrgunn May 20
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      Am I just being dense, or is this confusing the thing and how we talk about the thing?

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    3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness May 20
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      Not sure I understand the question? There is an idealization of a perfect resistor; those don’t exist. Actual resistors are nebulous physical objects with imperfectly characterizable behaviors. Whether something counts as a resistor is a matter of social negotiations.

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    4. mrgunn‏ @mrgunn May 20
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      Sure, but a specific resistor that you may have in a circuit behaves the way it behaves & remains what it is, regardless of the consensus definition changing around it, right? So this is a point about language, not about the thing.

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    5. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness May 20
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      Ah, I see, maybe! There is a way of misunderstanding “social construction” as “we can make things be however we like by agreeing they are that way.” Nobody actually believes that.

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    6. mrgunn‏ @mrgunn May 20
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      mrgunn Retweeted mrgunn

      Tangent, but the poorer handling of #covid19 in countries with authoritarian leaders is evidence that people accustomed to forcing their will on the world do believe something pretty close to that.https://twitter.com/mrgunn/status/1263152711907737602?s=20 …

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      Authoritarian leadership and #COVID19 is not a good mix. If you get used to being able to force your will on the world, you'll disregard experts telling you what can't be done, and you will inevitably be brought low. The tragedy is in how many you'll take along for the ride. https://twitter.com/cnni/status/1263032990680186880 …
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    7. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness May 20
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      That may be a good counterexample! I do find this behavior baffling… are they really incapable of thinking six months into the future?

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    8. mrgunn‏ @mrgunn May 20
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      My theory is their epistemology is crap. They can & do, but they have the wrong inputs:https://twitter.com/mrgunn/status/1261682500704731142?s=20 …

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      To have the right beliefs, you needed to dispense with all the simplifying assumptions that allow us to navigate our complex world & grapple with the bare reality. To do this, you needed to greatly simplify the number of things you were doing. The reason simplicity is needed is /
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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness May 20
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      Great thread!

      12:15 PM - 20 May 2020
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        1. mrgunn‏ @mrgunn May 20
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          Thanks, that's nebulously meaningful coming from you 😁

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