What's worse than academic citation rings? Twitter pseudo-life-coach mention rings. The content is ever so stale. You can only rip off the stoics so many times, fellas...
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Replying to @MattPirkowski
Stop it, you. This is not ripping off, its bringing storefront into the forefront of the up front. In bubble econ we need mention rings, this is how we shift nonexistent currency to nonexistent value. How else mom and pop will get paid smarty, how?!
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Replying to @moritzset
There's value in densely connected networks which act to self-accelerate a given message, sure. But at some point, those who observe that mimicry brings with it economic opportunity pathologize the pattern. Thus we get a veritable bacterial plume of mimetic monoculture. Bleh.
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Replying to @MattPirkowski @moritzset
There’s a valuable social function in repeating over and over that which one thinks is most important. If it’s stale to you, no need to keep reading it. But after all, our species is constantly creating new people who haven’t heard it yet.
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Replying to @levity @moritzset
I understand the value of repetition. It's at the core of Shannon's Mathematical Theory of Communication, after all. What I'm reacting to is the way in which it's naively mimicked in service of self aggrandizement, rather than in service of any genuine goal. It's deeply ironic.
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Replying to @MattPirkowski @moritzset
Self-aggrandizement is a genuine goal :) it may not be the “holiest” of goals, but, hey, there’s no accounting for taste
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Replying to @levity @moritzset
It's a goal, but it's over-supplied, and is a high time preference Schelling point. To the extent a network converges around it to the exclusion of lower time preference attractors, it becomes fragile and maladaptive.
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Replying to @MattPirkowski @moritzset
I believe that the desire for self-aggrandizement comes from the need for belonging & esteem (Maslow), & becomes excessive only when one’s social fabric is damaged. My hope is that those seeking it in philosophy have a better chance of addressing their core needs...
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...than those using more superficial means
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If one is hypocritically promoting stoicism but not living it, this will eventually create conflict that exposes the hypocrisy and prompts self-reflection. Ha, I guess your original complaint is an example of this!
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Im curious about your use of the concept of time preference here though. Seems uncorrelated? You can play a long game of self-aggrandizement, e.g. Elon Musk & other titans of industry, no?
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