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    1.  🎀 sonyasupposedly.com  🤖‏ @sonyasupposedly Oct 9
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       🎀 sonyasupposedly.com  🤖 Retweeted  🎀 sonyasupposedly.com  🤖

      the onset of pandemic demonstrated the breadth and depth of NPC-dom and I will never fucking forgethttps://twitter.com/sonyasupposedly/status/1280562784242040832 …

       🎀 sonyasupposedly.com  🤖 added,

       🎀 sonyasupposedly.com  🤖 @sonyasupposedly
      I will never forget trying to get through to Kelsey Piper about masks. someone like that is able to parrot the words about (for example) "statistical significance" being a construct that we created to aid decision-making — an objective but *arbitrary* benchmark. nonetheless
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    2.  🎀 sonyasupposedly.com  🤖‏ @sonyasupposedly Oct 9
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      even a lot of people I sincerely like, I know you don't think. not actually. you think that you think, but you lack the cognitive capacity to break from authority. it is what it is ("you" here may not be literally you, depends on who you are specifically, obvsly)

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    3.  🎀 sonyasupposedly.com  🤖‏ @sonyasupposedly Oct 9
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       🎀 sonyasupposedly.com  🤖 Retweeted  🎀 sonyasupposedly.com  🤖

      if you found this particular anti-mask narrative remotely plausible you are in fact functionally retarded, regardless of how smart you are, and a disturbingly large number of people fall into this buckethttps://twitter.com/sonyasupposedly/status/1278478803036065792 …

       🎀 sonyasupposedly.com  🤖 added,

       🎀 sonyasupposedly.com  🤖 @sonyasupposedly
      I completely lost my shit having this conversation with Kelsey Piper, who 100% sincerely believed that we should apply the precautionary principle to wearing DIY cloth masks
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    4.  🎀 sonyasupposedly.com  🤖‏ @sonyasupposedly Oct 9
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      I come back to this example repeatedly because it was the visceral demonstration that reached my gut like I said, I will never forget

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    5.  🎀 sonyasupposedly.com  🤖‏ @sonyasupposedly Oct 9
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      https://twitter.com/sonyasupposedly/status/1239107145418698753 …

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       🎀 sonyasupposedly.com  🤖 @sonyasupposedly
      Replying to @BDSixsmith
      "On the one hand we have experts who have driven this strategy so it has scientific merit." this person is likely above-average intelligence I want to die pic.twitter.com/ESVZ7H3Byl
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    6.  🎀 sonyasupposedly.com  🤖‏ @sonyasupposedly Oct 9
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      https://twitter.com/sonyasupposedly/status/1286691893510672384 …

       🎀 sonyasupposedly.com  🤖 added,

       🎀 sonyasupposedly.com  🤖 @sonyasupposedly
      "If there is some other political cause your average epidemiologist cares about at hand, I now expect epidemiologists to lie to me." https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/hufif8/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_20_2020/fz2axam/ … this but applied to every epistemic authority, established or wannabe — their judgments are simply prima facie suspect
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    7.  🎀 sonyasupposedly.com  🤖‏ @sonyasupposedly Oct 9
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      https://twitter.com/sonyasupposedly/status/1279478084631068672 …

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      I think "spells" is actually not a bad mental model for how the average person experiences abstract concepts
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    8.  🎀 sonyasupposedly.com  🤖‏ @sonyasupposedly Oct 9
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      I'm not better than "other people" on most dimensions but on this one, I am disapproval won't change my mind, nor will it dissuade me from saying that yes I am in some real sense elite, the kind that isn't overproduced. and that's exactly the point popular =/= predictive

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 10
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      Gonna start telling people never go full sonya

      9:56 AM - 10 Oct 2020
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      • Herr Dr Mr Modern Major General brrr Seitz Dedicating Ruckus 💎 Emily / aiju 💎 Involuntary Man's Laughter 🎀 sonyasupposedly.com 🤖 Eyes Alight तुम्हारा, सागर । 🅑🅔🅝
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        2. 🅑🅔🅝‏ @ben_mathes Oct 10
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          But 90% sonya would be a lot better than so many “elites” at 1%. It felt so socially weird to be stocking up and really seeing NYTimes/etc be so wrong. We need different words for “elites” in turchin’s “elite overproduction” that has no positive valence.

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        3. where's universal basic meaning‏ @postpostpostr Oct 10
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          overproduction of middle managers

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