Most people involved in overcoming-bias-twitter got there because they had weird ideas they wanted to argue and no one (cont)
Maybe clearest example is success of evolutionary theory first in biology and then in public acceptance.
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We talk a lot about eg anti-vaxxers, but important to note they are < 5% of population because reason convinced the rest.
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Everything good we have, including system that has halved poverty in last 20 years, comes from this kind of thing.
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See https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/24/guided-by-the-beauty-of-our-weapons/ … for more discussion of this.
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I am glad you don't use the "virtue signaling" formulation, since it is bad. Since I seem to have become the anti-evidence person in this
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Let me repeat that evidence and argumentation are good. I actually like using Twitter to test out different formulations of arguments for
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My views. But first, I state my views so people can engage my actual views.
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My objection is to the Twitter of drive-by evidence-challenging instead of engaging on what you hilariously called the "object" level
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I believe the influence of Cowen, Adams, other OB tweeters has provided a toolbox that people have adopted to avoid engaging on object level
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