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Searching for the numinous. Individually & collectively optimistic. 🇦🇺 🇨🇦, now home in 🇺🇸. @AsteraInstitute. Thinking out loud at: http://mnielsen.github.io 

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    Michael Nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 15 May 2020

    Interesting to think about what Twitter would be if people mostly tried to identify the best pieces in other people's tweets, and riffed on them, rather than critiquing the bits they don't like.

    9:24 AM - 15 May 2020
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    • 📚 adam ♪ Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🇺🇸 Jeff Lonsdale Bushra Farooqui 📖 🕯 🤷🏻‍♀️ Katherine Gordon Mohr ꧁👁👁꧂ @anonstra tele
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      1. Michael Nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 15 May 2020

        You can approximate this by choosing who you respond to, of course. To some extent, you get the type of conversation you feed.

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      2. José Luis Ricón Fernández de la Puente‏ @ArtirKel 15 May 2020
        Replying to @michael_nielsen

        What is the right ratio of critique vs riffing?

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      3. Michael Nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 15 May 2020
        Replying to @ArtirKel

        I don't know, but a relative answer may be helpful. Twitter is higher than I prefer. A friend very deliberately switches between the two modes, verbalizing as he does so, and it works very well.

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      2. Lucy Keer  🪣‏ @drossbucket 15 May 2020
        Replying to @michael_nielsen

        Lucy Keer  🪣 Retweeted QC

        I like @QiaochuYuan's phrase 'improv, not debate', it's what twitter seems to be really good for, you can do it well in the character limit. Though I kind of miss having somewhere that's good for debate norms.https://twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/status/1192905560837877760 …

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        QC @QiaochuYuan
        tiny twitter strategy guide 🔸follow ppl whose tweets u want inside u 🔸custom search engine for own tweets + fav others 🔸screenshot highlights from links (cmd-shift-4 on mac) 🔸thread threads 🔸humor (memes, shitposts) 🔸vulnerability 🔸improv, not debate 🔸goddamnit, be kind
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      3. Michael Nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 15 May 2020
        Replying to @drossbucket @QiaochuYuan

        Michael Nielsen Retweeted Michael Nielsen

        Nice phrasing. Related:https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/975886151608295425 …

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        Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen
        I try to use Twitter as a "yes, and..." medium, riffing off others. I nearly always ignore disagreement, and try to very rarely disagree myself. It's too much like jamming with Yo-Yo Ma and pausing to point out he got a note wrong.
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      1. Daniel Eth 💡‏ @daniel_eth 15 May 2020
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        I like this sort of positive thinking - people should do more of this!

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      1. Joshua Achiam‏ @jachiam0 15 May 2020
        Replying to @michael_nielsen

        Agreed. I wish people could start consciously framing Twitter (and most conversation) in terms of "how do we create shared understanding of the things we care about?" and engage in pro-social behaviors to accomplish that.

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      1. orthonormal‏ @renormalized 15 May 2020
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        I don't know how one might build a social network such that collaboration is a Nash equilibrium, though. Disagreement breeds more engagement, to an extent that riffing doesn't, and so any resharing-based system will amplify disagreements.

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