4/ Affective processing is generally useful. But within the funhouse of fuckery, it hallucinates an ever-expanding set of concepts that are wrong in ways the tends to generate and induce even more errors. (See also: https://www.amazon.com/Rationalizing-Cambridge-Studies-Political-Psychology/dp/052117614X …)
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5/ Callout culture is the one that's been intruding in my mind the most lately. Social condemn is necessary -- it's baked into how we process information! But, surely there is such a thing as too much, right?https://twitter.com/generativist/status/1106545527754313728 …
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💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops 💫 @generativistTools that help find the balance in allocating justifiable outrage in a useful way may be what I try to build post#phdlife. Right now the medium just creates endless, self-reinforcing ecological nichés for parasitic exploitation by outrage surfers. https://twitter.com/generativist/status/1106544069143072768 …Show this thread2 replies 1 retweet 5 likesShow this thread -
6/ I think there's a dangerous risk of seduction in that you can say, "yes, I'll stop when things change for the better," which means you don't actually have to worry if you're affecting that outcome. You're doing the morally right thing, it doesn't matter if its the correct one.
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@RogueNotary,@visakanv, and@Aelkus since I think you folks have been either pushing or puling me in this direction recently.3 replies 1 retweet 4 likesShow this thread -
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Nope, I did not. I wasn't Very Online then and I only just found this post last week. All I know is that he did kill himself.
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Have any particularly good critiques to read? I just started trying to find them, and it feels like a blind spot.
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