It’s actually the ability to opine on other people’s tweets anonymously
One of the weirdest thing about Twitter is that the negativity and aggressiveness that permeate it are rarely found in real life. I suppose this is in part selection effects and in part the platform's own dynamics
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This would be true if people did it anonymously. You find what appears to be actual people writing vicious things. It may be a question of incentives and a reward we're maximizing and going to town because the perceived risk is so low.
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What are the agents trying to optimize for in the system, and what are their incentives?
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Carefully designed
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And the anonymity. Assign names and contact info to the comments and discourse would be more civilized.
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It is also the case that the philosopher influencer poseur seems to occur more often in Twitter than in real life too.
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Why do you think it is? I'm genuinely more inspired tbh..
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Sometimes I wonder if there are already a lot more bots than we suspect
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You might move in circles with little real agressiveness but I can assure you that it's out there in abundance.
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