The idea that a marketplace of ideas mediated by social media will end up decanting some capital-T Truth seems pretty silly. Like, sure, people are competing in The Discourse (TM), but the market maker is actually Twitter et al. and the market made isn't one for ideas.
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Replying to @generativist
The reason for this is that provocation is what really gets likes, not any sort of dialectic truth. Twitter is as much of a marketplace of ideas as a high school cafeteria.
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Replying to @astroparticular @generativist
Tbh this is a common theme with public debates. It's never really about providing a solid argument, it's about looking like you're giving one. Adding publicity to a debate usually risks encouraging bad faith and theatricality. /end rant
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Yea. Social media algorithms and user interfaces amplify provocation, too. The objective function you'd want for "Truth" (consensus-making or cascades of changed beliefs or positive conversations between otherwise adversarial dyads) isn't the one we have.
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