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Feb 11, 2021

you find a bit that gets you attention, you double-down on the bit, you accrete a shell of followers who are into your bit and reward you for doubling down harder, that shell attracts a second shell of haters who hate your bit and *also* reward you for doubling down

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sympathetic opposition

@sympatheticopp

· Sep 10, 2020

why do so many people's twitter accounts get more obnoxious over time like what's the mechanism

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

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@QiaochuYuan

(i am, as usual, talking about myself here) the thing i tried to do from here is abandon the bit and do something else for awhile. giving it some time to cool down and reconfigure. to the extent that you can't do that you have bigger problems and could try focusing on those

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

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twitter as "psychological extreme sport"

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SF (Aug 2-14)

@visakanv

· May 26, 2020

I say this with love, and as someone on the path myself: I think choosing to become a public figure is a sort of voluntary descent into a kind of madness. I think it's a psychological extreme sport with very high odds of injury

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I'm trying to make my bit being "cognitively charitable and reasonably civil", to see if that attracts anyone :D