okay maybe i’ll ask more directly for opinions on this: sometimes i write tweets stripped of nuance for rhetorical effect, like “X is Y” when my true opinion is closer to “in many cases X may be mostly Y”. i could see arguments that this is bad. thoughts?
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partly this is a rebellion against rationalist speech norms where you have to caveat everything so much to avoid accusations of overconfidence that you end up not saying anything. and partly it is more fun. but perhaps i ought not contribute to loss of nuance in the discourse 🤔
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well I'm sorry to whoever I'm not citing but I think what you said was so important. I feel like centralized social media pressures ideas to be as *widely true* as possible, even if that truth is watery or has 'on the other hand' statements & disclaimers shooting out all over it
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yeah i like the first tweet here. i am aiming to write in a way that is at least memorable. there is a style of caveating that makes what you actually have to say impossible to remember