A commonality among the accounts on this platform that I value the most is that one can’t determine the author’s political orientation by reading their Tweets. This is because they think about each individual issue from first principles and refuse to capitulate to social proof.
I think the reason these people's political orientation is hard to determine is that they don't have one, at least in the ordinary sense of a position on the left-right continuum. http://paulgraham.com/mod.html
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That second part is key. Those first principles *are* a political orientation. No value in neutrality. Little value in case-by-case specifics. Lots of value in consistently applying a consistent set of principles.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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