Twitter is now the supreme force in Western civilization. It edits both Trump and the Times. Neither the president of the United States of America nor the publisher of the New York Times can write whatever they want if Twitter doesn't like it.https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-york-times-publisher-ag-sulzberger-laments-loss-of-a-talent-like-james-bennet …
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Once we realize that Twitter is our actual government now, whatever might be written on paper, we can start thinking about how we might improve on that. Can we build social networks with physical levels of civility & rule-of-law if this is a first class goal from the beginning?
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Politicians used to hire teams of pollsters to do what Twitter does for them in real time.
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A point to you for acknowledging that your judiciary is political.
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It's plausible that the general opinion on Twitter predicts what the country will eventually do. To prove your point, you need to show that the general opinion in barbershops and pubs is a worse predictor.
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Yeah, if Twitter's backend was an open state database, we could create some interesting plots to show whether it exhibits Granger causality with respect to shifts in public opinion. See here for some thoughts on open state backends:https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1198655461232463874 …
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would’ve been more awesome if Twitter can solve the bot problem.
#digitalidentity is the killer feature of the next generation of social media apps
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Twitter is the new Catholic church. Likes are the new indulgence.
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Personally think this is your most underrated tweet.
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^I think about this tweet once a day. Think the end result is rule by gov employees, which will be everyone. Like watching a train wreck in slow motion.
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