The sorting out is a combination of the communications tools, in this case language and Twitter; and ideas whose purpose it is to resolve such conflict, chiefly reason.
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Reason is a really nice idea, this much I agree.
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Better than Facebook, where everyone believes their little world is the only real world
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Perhaps this is how it should be. I have observed time and again that most humans cannot imagine that their little world is not the only real world, unless reality hits them with a stick.
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Some of the conflict is substantial, not merely superficial. These are the most interesting problems.
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Substantial conflicts happen rarely between the substantial people. In a typical Twitter conflict, both parties are fully unaware that they don't understand the counterarguments.
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Alternatively: Most problems on Twitter are mental model coordination exercises that take months/years to resolve. Twitter solves coordination by exploiting human obsession with mimetic rivalry.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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