This is why I kinda wish there was something like anonymous-but-friendly downvotes or something. The ingroup/outgroup criticism cost asymmetry creates one hell of a gradient.
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Basically,pic.twitter.com/JUQOpRR2Zy
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Related: Tfw criticism of the ingroup intended as part of normal self-improvement is intercepted by the outgroup & spun as evidence of resistance to self improvement.
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Or spun as evidence that, “Even these guys acknowledge that their group is wrongheaded.” (Once again, however, this is an example of asymmetric polarization. One side engages in much more of this sort of bad faith cherry-picking than the other—and we all know which side it is.)
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LOL. The power of that punchline depends on your having purchased with literally no questions asked that absurd predicate about the supposed “world eminence” of humans.
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Fair but we can reframe it in non-humanist terms & get a more accurate statement: "We have invented means of organization that incentivize speed of such intensity that we cannot take the time to use slow-running facilities of invention to think our way out of them"
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Put in Kahneman terms: our currently fashionable technologies of organization and communication drastically (and with catastrophic consequences) prioritize thinking fast over thinking slow
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Or McLuhan, who got things exactly right way back when,https://twitter.com/microjudgments/status/1084571976004292609 …
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Replying to @generativist @nils_gilman and
(Not just that first quote but the thread)
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