2/ Which *of course* because if you put someone on tilt their response is going to be ill-considered and reactive. Anger collapses uncertainty into empirically and rhetorically falsifiable absolutism. That's the whole point of trolling — gotcha games.
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3/ But, the effect *does* spill over when it becomes deeply integrated by chronic attacks. When scholarly attention gets turned too much towards resisting bad-faith invaders, you risk bad internal hygiene. https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1123612218292101120 …
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4/ Again, that's part of the whole point of the attack: induced invalidation. But, it still baffles me that people who fancy themselves objective look at the game and think: "that troll defends science!"
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5/ "But, scientists should have thick skins!" Really? Why the fuck would you think that? Even if your goal is to maximize "objectivity" — however you characterize it — being a dick isn't a great prescription because... ...affective cognition is a very real thing.
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The last bit is what I want to play with in a computational immune system a bit. I think the signature of that type of troll is detectable and if so,pic.twitter.com/kgoVfevnd4
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Hence it is vital that politics must be done as verifiable science or else fall prey to bullshit.
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