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    1. Casey Muratori‏ @cmuratori Oct 24

      [1/*] Using Twitter has put reading comprehension into a very different perspective for me. I used to think reading comprehension tests were silly when I was in grade school, because they seem so easy. But I guess I took for granted the skill of understanding a paragraph of text.

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    2. Casey Muratori‏ @cmuratori Oct 24

      [2/*] The reason I thought they were silly is because they seemed so much easier than the other things that we were asked to do at a similar time. For example, solving a quadratic equation seems dramatically more difficult than understanding a simple paragraph.

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    3. Casey Muratori‏ @cmuratori Oct 24

      [3/*] But lately it seems like people cannot read even one or two sentences and correctly build a model in their head of what is being said, never mind able to read, say, an article or a source document.

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    4. Casey Muratori‏ @cmuratori Oct 24

      [4/*] Note that this is separate from things like emotional content, or intent. I'm talking about just basic facts, like what is the subject of a sentence, or whether there was one thing being talked about or two things.

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    5. Casey Muratori‏ @cmuratori Oct 24

      [5/*] The most recent example that really drove this home for me is that there were recent disclosures regarding grant proposals and the Wuhan Institute of Virology. There were _two separate proposals_, one of which was funded, and the other which was not.

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    6. Casey Muratori‏ @cmuratori Oct 24

      [6/*] It turns out gain of function research was _in_ the first proposal (DARPA. unfunded), not in the second proposal (NIH, funded), but then the second proposal ended up in the lab "accidentally" producing gain of function. Those are the actual facts that were disclosed.

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    7. Casey Muratori‏ @cmuratori Oct 24

      [7/*] From a reading comprehension standpoint, this is very straightforward (to me). But Twitter is now _littered_ with threads of people who are all over the map on what they are asserting. It's insane. I guess Twitter is where people who failed reading comprehension end up?

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    8. Casey Muratori‏ @cmuratori Oct 24

      [8/*] It is so frustrating that it makes me want to make a weekly show where all I do is recap what the subjects, verbs, and objects of the week's news sentences were, because apparently nobody can handle that if it gets even slightly complicated.

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      Casey Muratori‏ @cmuratori Oct 24

      [9/*] Like it seems that people on Twitter can only handle one subject. Like there was a grant proposal. They could handle that. But once there were two grant proposals, that's the end of it. Their brain can't track two similar things at the same time, so it's over?

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        2. Gilbert Vrancken‏ @ziccidus Oct 24
          Replying to @cmuratori

          There has been an extreme drop in the span people can hold attention. Brains are scanning for small chunks to share on the socials (and take offense at). Having a max char limit on Twitter, a max time limit on Tiktok, Insta, etc. accommodates this. Deep thought is discouraged.

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        3. Casey Muratori‏ @cmuratori Oct 24
          Replying to @ziccidus

          I do worry a lot about this. I think it is much worse than people think :(

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        1. Dominic Clarke‏ @DomOfClarkes Oct 24
          Replying to @cmuratori

          Those people cherry pick (incorrectly!) whatever it is that backs up their position. There is zero interest to understand the details. They get what they want and amplify. Unfortunately undoing the damage is almost impossible.

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        1. Philipp Schuerz‏ @PhilippSchuerz Oct 24
          Replying to @cmuratori

          I find that people are generally more interested in validating their feelings about the world than in absorbing information. Even if not acting in bad faith, that can often lead to misreadings, since most of us are looking for confirmation, not information.

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        1. ThatScar‏ @That_Scar Oct 24
          Replying to @cmuratori

          I suspect the culprit here is that it's not a straight reading comprehension. Even if people read the source material, they have already read an opinion/summary/secondary/further removed media about it and it generates some assumptions about the source. Like a game of Telephone.

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        1. Patrick Kelly‏ @pkell7 Oct 24
          Replying to @cmuratori

          You _almost_ arrived at a well studied Cog. Psych phenomenon. Almost. Although I have wondered if better reading comprehension would alleviate that phenomenon. I suspect it might.

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        1. Bryan W. Wagner‏ @bryanww Oct 24
          Replying to @cmuratori

          There's a concept in psychology called "The magic number 7 plus or minus two" that makes an observation about how many ideas a person can manage mentally. But to me, social media has exposed that this is probably peak performance; many people seem unable to manage 2.

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        1. Jeff Knox‏ @j_KN0X Oct 24
          Replying to @cmuratori

          Two grant proposals?! Now you've just gone too far, sir.

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        2. Jeff Knox‏ @j_KN0X Oct 24
          Replying to @cmuratori

          In all seriousness though, I read a piece from the Telegraph [1] and only came out with the idea that there was a single proposal to DARPA by a US org. Please tell me it is not obvious that there is a 2nd, funded proposal mentioned in that article. 😬 [1]https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/21/wuhan-scientists-planned-releaseskin-penetrating-nanoparticles/ …

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        3. Casey Muratori‏ @cmuratori Oct 24
          Replying to @j_KN0X

          So that article seems to require a login, so I don't know, but it is entirely possible that the author never mentions the other grant. You can read the other grant, and the progress reports, on-line since the Intercept FOIA'd them (unlike the DARPA grant, which was a "leak")

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