Twitter is a crowd-sourced Rabin's adversary for misinterpretation.
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In particular, only a rare person can argue well on it, & a kind of Gresham's law of bad-argument-driving-out-good seems to apply at scale.
An interestingly specific kind of bad based on wishful thinking, and stranger still, the wish to be outraged.
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I wonder if that's an accidental equilibrium, & others are possible, or if something specific about this medium makes it the likely outcome
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I would guess people have always liked outrage in the same sense they always liked nicotine, but we didn't realize how much...
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