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    1.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 17 Sep 2019
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       💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫 Retweeted  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫

      Said differently, social proof affords some people exceptional agenda setting power. They become cultural Schelling points. Social network architectures tend to render such dynamics concrete -- and, very often, pathologically sclerotic.https://twitter.com/generativist/status/1173988670669377536 …

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       💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫 @generativist
      E.g. On a service that facilitates social experiences, maybe it's not super great to grant a user write permissions to the attentions of tens of millions of people simultaneously?
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    2.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 17 Sep 2019
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      At this point I have 16k followers. Know why? It's because I'm EXTREMELY online. I hope I say interesting/funny things, but the main reason is because I spend a lot of time on here. But how often do people see / react to my tweets as if I'm/they're authoritative. Too often.

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    3. Mara Averick‏ @dataandme 17 Sep 2019
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      I did a lot of scribbling about these things over the summer (mostly too half-baked to share w/ anyone else). This one quote from Hit Makers (which I read years ago) kind of catalyzed it all for me: "A one-to-one-thousand conversation is not a conversation. It is a presentation")pic.twitter.com/9VcEN0k2Is

      notes from Hit Makers by Derek Thompson: "It is the vanity of crowds. Simply knowing that we're talking to a large audience shapes the information we share and how we share it."
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    4.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 17 Sep 2019
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      Mara. I desperately want to work with you if only for access to your notes.

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    5. Mara Averick‏ @dataandme 17 Sep 2019
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      I think my notes are probably a hazard to self and others, tbh! Looks like I was reading @DavidEpstein's range at the time, too! (Yes, I write footnotes by hand…)pic.twitter.com/Hnvldn30NH

      The aversion to contrary ideas is not a simple artifact of stupidity or ignorance. Yale law and psychology professor Dan Kahan has shown that more scientifically literate adults are actually more likely to become dogmatic about politically polarizing topics in science. Kahan thinks it could be because they are better at finding evidence to confirm their feelings: the more time they spend on the topic, the more hedgeh
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      Again, *unironic chef's kiss*

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    7. Mara Averick‏ @dataandme 17 Sep 2019
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      🤣 …eventually I got distracted learning how to draw hedgehogs and foxes.pic.twitter.com/0HmU5qmAdu

      The hedgehogs, according to Tetlock, “toil devotedly” within one tradition of their specialty, “and reach for formulaic solutions to ill-defined problems.” Outcomes did not matter; they were proven right by both successes and failures, and burrowed further into their ideas. It made them outstanding at predicting the past, but dart- throwing chimps at predicting the future. The foxes, meanwhile, “draw from an eclectic
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       💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 17 Sep 2019
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      Who wouldn't, Mara? (Any archer?)

      9:49 AM - 17 Sep 2019
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