some reports of the two exchanging introductions: "I am Alexander the great king." "I am Diogenes the dog
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Did Plato block Diogenes when he got trolled ? No. Blocking/muting people is not Lindy. You deal and troll back. Even more so in tribal and village societies. You had to cultivate your reputation and maintain civilities.
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Counter-argument: Quality means reducing the noise in the signal. Blocking non-serious people improves signal quality—only your equals are worth taking seriously, many people aren’t. Plato and Diogenes were geniuses worthy of each other’s respect—hard cases make bad law.
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It’s the people you block who are the blind spots. The genius sees the widest expanse & the mob tries to reign him in (see, Galileo & Socrates). I reject “bad law makes hard cases”, it’s a later iteration (corruption?) & so anti-Lindy. Most likely invented for subversive ends.
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Why would I want to increase blind spots ? Instead of acknowledging them. Implying Lindy is even applicable to twitter domain is my point and a fallacy of Lindy as a concept itself. Smash your phone and burn toilet paper if you reject all that is anti Lindy.
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1. The people who make non-productive points are the blind spots. These people are the ones to block. “The cold passion for truth hunts in no pack.” —Robinson Jeffers. Most people, motivated by envy or will to power, seek to distort the truth or your insight.
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2. Lindy applies to Twitter at the meta-level of the conversation or discourse; it so happens that the medium widens the scope of the conversation to the globe. Toilet paper is probably Lindy. “Phones” no longer exist, so anti-Lindy. iPhone nothing like phone circa 1980.
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