Twitter epistemology: the messy process by which a twitter conversation converges, with some probability, towards some interesting insight or truth, with unpredictable correlation to the prompt
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People who react with anxiety to Twitter epistemology seem to have the opposite of ADHD... anxiety from a discourse not following some sort of reasonable-seeming and predictable path towards a pre-selected destination.
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They style reminds me of a particular kind of bad manager, who is driven to anxiety by a meeting not sticking to agenda/timeline and trying desperately and ineffectually to herd the butterflies.
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There is a zombie-like aspect to this. Like, dude, the prompt may have started around X but clearly now the energy has shifted towards Y, so just go with it and get interested in Y. Even if you *could* rein in and redirect the energy, it would drain away to 1% of original.
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The trick is to let things flow where the energy gets amplified AND interesting things get uncovered. An emergent epistemology that is a fine balance between truth-seeking and meme-pushing.
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Where you trust that over time, questions YOU are interested in and want answered will win the memetic attention lottery sometime, and when they do, you'll uncover 100x more than you would with a more directed, choreographed process.
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