Failure mode for this: assuming any strong or non-boring claim belongs to the screaming monkey circus. Cigarettes cause cancer and companies actively try to suppress info? Obviously false, no true statement could ever be so sensational. Test your stances against historical cases.https://twitter.com/_jordan_bates/status/1085939640111169537 …
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Given the existence of many competing screaming monkey circuses, what's the chance that none of them ever seize on a valid issue? Pretty slim, right? Ignoring the screaming monkey circuses means exactly that, you can't just take the opposite of their views and assume correctness
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But in the absence of any specific reliable (source of) information about the circuses, the chance that any given one is on to something is pretty slim too. We know a few of them are important, but is it worth it to make a habit of participating?
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if only there were a technological platform that is indistinguishable from having been optimally designed for maintaining low-touch relationships with a large number of screaming monkey circuses
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