This exhortation to go beyond tribalism joins a lot of other voices reacting to a hyperpartisan time. It's a good effort and I certainly agree, but I also can't thinking something more is needed. 1/5 https://impactful.info/posts/2018/9/16/tribes …
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Appealing to our better angels is noble and does have an effect, but it's not necessarily stable and doesn't (as
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To get less war, I suspect it's not enough to speak up against it. It needs to become less worth it, less cost-effective. When it comes to disagreement and culture-warring, that can mean equal-opportunity yelling at bad argumentation for being bad argumentation. 3/5
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But it can also mean what I try to do: increase the cost of attack by developing better defenses, partly by describing how offensive weapons work and thus leave us less vulnerable to them. 4/5
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But truly effective defensive *weapons* are hard to come by. It's not like a long deconstructive analysis is much more use in a hostile environment than tai chi is in a street fight. It remains an unsolved problem. 5/5
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Sometimes a phrase-bomb that references a complex notion in a small number of words can be good. E.g. "Correlation is not causation". Hard to come by but not impossible.
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