(cont) would listen because "eh, you can prove anything with arguments". If we want to support our ideas we need better.
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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I am currently engaged in a parallel Twitter about United enforcing dress code rules which I think is relevanthttps://twitter.com/freequentflyr/status/846070564657778689 …
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