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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Dec 2019
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    Debate has always struck me as a bureaucrat’s idea of healthy discourse. Just like “scientific method” is a bureaucrat’s idea of sciencing.

    4:02 PM - 30 Dec 2019
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      2. Matt Guttman‏ @RealtimeAI 31 Dec 2019
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        Debate is just using an adversarial discovery process to reach a shared understanding.

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      3. Nimayi‏ @Nimayi2 31 Dec 2019
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        ...when approached correctly.

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      2. Paul Hundred‏ @paul_hundred 31 Dec 2019
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        eigen no!

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      3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 31 Dec 2019
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        what

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      2. ben "mediocrity on an 18mo timescale" mosior‏ @HiredThought 30 Dec 2019
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        real debate happens in the town square with flintlock pistols at dawn

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      3. A. S.‏ @LoCtrl 31 Dec 2019
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        this but with broadswords instead and unironically

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      2. Scott Stevenson‏ @scottastevenson 30 Dec 2019
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        Happy to come across that stance on the scientific method in the wild - haven’t seen it very often outside of philosophy publications. I love “Against Method”pic.twitter.com/Dlk4mWosSC

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      3. Scott Stevenson‏ @scottastevenson 30 Dec 2019
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        Although in my mind a debate is naturally unstructured, chaotic and anarchistic. Not beaurocratic at all. A few debates get weird, foolish structured formats, but most that we participate in are unstructured

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      1. #AXIL #codespeech #Temporalism #Aether‏ @drama_zero 31 Dec 2019
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        Well considering that actual action is not on the calendar

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      2. Matt Elder‏ @fiddlemath 30 Dec 2019
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        Both are knowledge-finding methods for *groups*, not individuals. Both are about convincing the audience, not about convincing the participants.

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      3. Maynard Handley‏ @handleym99 30 Dec 2019
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        You see the same pointless rote make work in social science or history. Listen to 95% of the authors on New Books in ... and be bored out of your mind. Few understand originality rather than mimesis, even fewer practice it.

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