Hot take: Tweets communicate at near the channel capacity for text-centric messages. But, this has the effect of compelling everyone to communicate superficial variants of the same thing over and over and over again, so we're just immersed in wildly excessive, novel redundancy.
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Replying to @generativist
interesting but i'm not seeing the causation... that first bit and the last bit seem to be true, but how are they causally related?1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @mattsiegel
Tweets that communicate at the highest rate are rewarded more than others. There are a limited number of topics communicable at that rate in 280.pic.twitter.com/krcMLZH26D
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Replying to @generativist @mattsiegel
@visakanv to what extent do you think this medium constrains the possible message space vs. longform1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @aaronzlewis @generativist and
i’m not totally sure about the assumption that a book (for example) could be reduced to the sum of its tweet-sized nugget parts maybe there is some kind of “emergent meaning” that is above and beyond the most quotable quotes
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The challenge for authors is to write books that can’t be broken down into tweets; but not many authors are actually capable of doing that. It’s less what you say and more how you say it
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Replying to @visakanv @aaronzlewis and
this is why I never speed read fiction
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Replying to @realjdburnett @aaronzlewis and
Yeah it’s like playing Beethoven on 5x speed. Why
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Oddly, if you play Harvey Danger flagpole sitta not like 1.5x on YouTube, it makes it better...
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