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    1.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 27 Dec 2019
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       💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫 Retweeted Venkatesh Rao

      As I go about packing and running errands for my flight, I'm going to do "one [non-expert] hot take that I think various niche mutuals won't like"-per-like. So, surfacing my subjective, socially-obscured beliefs — or pissing off people who otherwise like me.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1205357296714280962 …

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      Venkatesh Rao @vgr
      Everyone should do a one-opinion-per-like personal challenge (make it 2 or 3 if you have too few followers). Live-fire stress test of your brainstorming capacity
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    2.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 27 Dec 2019
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       💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫 Retweeted Venkatesh Rao

      P.S. I'm deliberately bad at following directions and like to be fashionably late (except when it comes to being anywhere, physically — then I'm approximately one hour early without notifying the person I'm meeting.)https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1206611824566652929 …

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      Venkatesh Rao @vgr
      This is now metastizing to people outside my corner and a lot 9f people seem to be QTing the prompt with generic opinion threads. I recommend against that. Pick a topic, or ask a friend for one.
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    3.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 27 Dec 2019
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      1/ Markets are remarkably good tools for solving collective action problems. Not because they are God-like computational tools for doing sound resource allocation — holy hell, they are not — but because they're a socially-comprehensible means of muddling along.

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       💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 27 Dec 2019
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      2/ Federalism is good, actually. Not so much because it affords us with laboratories of Democracy but because it creates more near-decomposable governance... ...in theory.

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        2.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 27 Dec 2019
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          3/ Financial markets are claim entanglement engines. This has socio-economic pros and cons but I think at least since Reagan it's been a corrupting force that selects for oligarchy. A lot of people are really big fans of oligarchy.

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        3.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 27 Dec 2019
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          4/ The people who prefer equity to equality and the people who would believe caste systems are good, actually, are the same people. America is currently polarized along an equity-v-caste-systems divide. It has been since day 0, but the stakes are currently higher.

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        4.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 27 Dec 2019
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          5/ The @GOP is a putrid and decaying corpse. But it's not going to die because it's already an anti-fragile zombie of racists and people who don't care about racism so long as their 401(k) increases. Population replacement matters but it's slow and in the long run we're all dead.

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        5.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 27 Dec 2019
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          6/ Related: liberals and the left should actively create social incentives for conservatives who are actual decent human beings to rise and enter the @GOP party structure. Truly terrible things are more likely than a Great Leap Forward. Pull the GOP back off the cliff.

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        6.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 27 Dec 2019
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          7/ "Centrists" get shit for advocating this because they try to do cowardly cognitive balancing at the same time ("on both sides"). The asymmetry is very real — the right is deplorable. But cross-cutting relationships could slow the fission. (I just don't wanna swallow that shit)

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        7.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 27 Dec 2019
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          8/ Bitcoin is the best thing to ever happen to cypherpunks. I can't conceive a better way to make cryptography mainstream. (TLS does not count) Stereotypes aside, people to my left participating by ridicule alone are creating a potentially dangerous vacuum if success continues.

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        8.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 27 Dec 2019
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          9/ Banning is bad, actually. I've been repeatedly wrong about this over the past few years because in the moment: "fuck these monstrous assholes." But I don't think social commons are merely romanticized goods — they're vital.

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        9.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 27 Dec 2019
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          10/ Unfortunately, twitter, facebook, et al are not social commons — they just mock them for adbucks. We pretended otherwise because engagement is stimulating. But pressure-release banning benefits no one more than @jack. Real user-centric access controls would lower engagements.

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        10.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 27 Dec 2019
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          11/ Creating a true open platform is hard because: 1) engineering distributed and decentralized low-latency is hard; 2) we crave low-latency; and, 3) we're so wildly promiscuous with our attention that faux-free tends to win the resource battle. (I want to be wrong.)

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        11.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 27 Dec 2019
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          12/ Give people cookies. If you can't do so because it is (quiet reasonably) exhausting, just ignore them. But the "do you want a cookie?" nonsense is not good at winning friends and influencing people because it rejects the premise that you need to do either — which is wrong.

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        12.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 27 Dec 2019
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          13/ The idea that the left is culturally ascendent calls forth a lot of facts not in evidence...unless you define "the left" as "in favor of human rights," which is admittedly not wrong by contrast. But again, banking on replacement fails to consider power grabbing is dynamic.

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        13.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 27 Dec 2019
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          14/ The current generation of bots exploit our fast-and-frugal cognition; the next generation will exploit our deliberative systems, too. Everyone needs to let go of the idea that bot-or-not matters because it either doesn't or classification is too costly.

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        14.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 27 Dec 2019
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          15/ You absolutely can punch down — no problem there. The issue is when you do so in a way that conspicuously favors punching in that direction with no relationship to harm done elsewhere and generally.

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        15.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 27 Dec 2019
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          16/ Everyone needs to shut the fuck up about signalling and counter-signalling. It's a god damn moral and cognitive prion.

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        16.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 27 Dec 2019
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          17/ Almost no one believes in the anything resembling a blank slate theory of the mind. A whole fuck load of people believe in barely-modernized versions of phrenology.

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           💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫 Retweeted Visakan Veerasamy

          18/ Assholes are legion and being kind really is revolutionary. But that doesn't make it easier; it doesn't mean you should always turn the other cheek; and, it doesn't mean it's ever going to be a solved problem. It's humanity's sisyphean task.https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1065115774057013248 …

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          Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv
          I think a major theme of my life’s work is going to be “how do we coordinate effectively to solve the asshole problem”.
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        18.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 27 Dec 2019
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          19/ People who shout "knowledge is power!" seem to give information sharing (Gutenberg and everything after) very little credit for historical socio-technological progress while affording the economic system that most favors them the maximal benefit of considerable doubt.

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        19.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 27 Dec 2019
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          20/ Woke" in the way the anti-woke use it is a real thing but time spent by the latter criticizing the former wildly exceeds what could be reasonably called a proportional response. Mostly it's what snobbery looks like in realpolitik form.

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        20.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 27 Dec 2019
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          21/ Anti-union and pro-billionaire attitudes are the best and most obvious examples of the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

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        21.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 27 Dec 2019
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          22/ The overwhelming majority of the Bay Area is not tech-bro. Too many of the loudest people in tech with considerable power who don't get sufficient pushback are.

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          23/ Vegans are genuinely commendable. Granola stereotypes are weird machismo deflection. We're the big bad in every story — engineering literal slaughterhouses for glutinous consumption. The predator in me snuffs that recognition out relentlessly.

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        23.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 27 Dec 2019
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          24/ If you try to draw a line between antifa and the far right, you’ve probably connected a lot of other dots poorly, too.

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        24.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 27 Dec 2019
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          25/ The premise of gun rights as a guard against tyrannical rule is defensible. The defense would be much stronger if it’s loudest defenders didn’t vocally celebrate tyranny so much. (Even then it seems pretty weak to me.)

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        25.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 27 Dec 2019
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          26/ Subjectivity implies different things have different meanings to different people because prior experiences crystallized as beliefs have different relationships. You can’t coerce someone to adopt your concept as a singleton. Trying is at best futile.

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        26.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 27 Dec 2019
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          27/ Everyone connected to the Sokal-squared fraud (even those merely delighting in schadenfreude) embarrasses themselves. They’re not carrying the torch of enlightenment or whatever — they’re carrying tiki torches.

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        27.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 27 Dec 2019
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          28/ re:26/ “Microaggression” is an example of a term that is either communicatively useful or detrimental depending on your skin color. Since there are currently way more white people in the US, it probably replicates and reinforces racism, on balance.

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        28.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 27 Dec 2019
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          29/ Yes, I know it’s supposed to mean “individual-level” in the sense of micro/macro, but that’s not how it’s received (see: 26) so it’s basically “so you’re thinking of voting for mayor Pete”-quality communication.

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        29.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 27 Dec 2019
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          30/ People who reject the existence and prevalence of microaggressions and *understand* it as intended are called “racists”

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        30.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 27 Dec 2019
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          (Okay now I’m super nauseated from typing in airport-bound Uber)

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        31.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist 27 Dec 2019
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          31/ The people who complain the loudest about filter bubbles suspiciously curate the social media presences near the limit of homogeneity. Very often, they're just as technocratic as the people they condemn.

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