Last week I was reading about a particular tech idea and looked up the author on twitter. He had about 100 followers. My brain immediately and automatically translated that into reduced credibility. That’s pathological in so many ways. I rely on twitter for too many things.
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Replying to @generativist
Popularity-based heuristics are some of the worst, at least for finding good new ideas
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Replying to @jasongiannaros @generativist
Also some of us are mainly on Twitter cause our jobs say we have to be. Duck Tales fish tube videos are definitely an ancillary benefit to this, however
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