There is something like a common knowledge game but with silences. Like, not all silences mean the same thing. When a bunch of people are silent about X for the same reason, and everybody kinda knows everybody is silent for the same reason, it’s a common silence or something.
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I’m in at least a couple of dozen vaguely overlapping dm conversations that are all underground in part as retreat from culture war... it’s not easy forming coherent mental models of public silences via the Venn diagram of your underground whisper web.
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Modeling this stuff is like modeling flows in networks of pipes rather than in a large pool. It’s fundamentally harder. For the same reason distributed complying is harder than centralized.
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Revenge of the weirding (I’m not sure if this works)
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The computers struck first and foiled our threading.
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