The problem with fortune cookie Twitter is evident from one metric: the ratio K of average quality of replies (on a 1-10 scale say) to likes+RTs.
If you get 4 likes, 2 RTs on a tweet where average reply is 8, K=8/6=1.33.
100 likes, 20 RTs, reply quality 1? K=1/120=0.0083.
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And it’s not that you attract dumb people in the mentions. You get smart people *acting* dumb. You’re literally making the discourse dumber. I noticed this tendency in myself which made me sharply pull back from engaging. I was getting tempted to post *dumb* replies.
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Oof
You posted this a few seconds after I replied to something of yours for the first (maybe second?) time.
Social paranoia GO!
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I don't see the reply you're referring to. Twitter doesn't show me all replies.
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But you do see *this* one. How... Something.
It was a comment that charisma lets you distort your 2x2 matrix, so you can make "alchemy/chemistry distinction" look like "HBD/racism distinction" and claim youre in the "good" quadrant. Only phrased better the first time.
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