QC (in Berlin 7/29-???) on Twitter: "@noahlt @andy_matuschak hence: write more supportive comments and replies to work you think is good! can have a much bigger impact than you might think!" / Twitter

This story viscerally conveys a strange asymmetry in modern creative work: a person like Max can be doing work which produces civilizational-level benefits affecting many millions of people… and yet bad-faith behavior by a *single person* can seriously drain gumption.

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Max Roser

@MaxCRoser

· Apr 4, 2021

This thread is more personal than most of the things I share here, but I’m at my limit with Jason Hickel. I want to explain why I dislike him so much and how we got here. This is a personal story over several years so it’ll take a bit of time.

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Noah Tye

@noahlt

Apr 4, 2021

part of the asymmetry is because people who are critical are motivated to write something, and people who are supportive get aggregated into a number (follower count, retweet count, etc)