but I could equally well label this: “two important kinds of creativity” with different examples
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one example: cooking hacks videos made for passive consumption as entertainment, but then people make videos of trying to actually do the hacks, transferring it to a more rigorous context, and millions of people are entertained by resulting fiascos
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epistemic fiascos are also highly entertaining - so entertaining that you start to wonder if they’ve stripped the context off of a suspicious claim and made it global on purpose to make you clickhttps://twitter.com/nythealth/status/1208754010422939650?s=21 …
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https://twitter.com/alt_kia/status/989745922044084224 … reminds me a bit of this thread i poasted
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(specifically in that patient literature is not only intentionally underdetailed but also iirc that the listing of side effects is intentionally hyper-broad, erring on the side of avoiding false negatives than anything else)
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Re: your first example: Isn’t qualitative observation one the first kinds of research needed to establish scientific principles?
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yeah in some sense the whole job of science is to try to aggregate claims (among other things) from various contexts and figure out how to strip the context off (skillfully or not)
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I think about this often lately bc I wonder whether my former academic philosophy contacts think I’ve turned into a charlatan.
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as opposed to academic philosophers who are definitely not charlatans
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This is Vice's entire marketing deck.
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Also terrible, exactly now that I've invoked them, twitter is surfacing vice content in my feed.
@twitter pull your pants up I can see your algorithm.
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