Too many bad takes built on reductive ideas about why people do what they do, especially online — less, I think, because they have useful explanatory power, and more because they allow people to skip entirely the layer containing desires they don’t endorse or fully understandhttps://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/1092064394920349697 …
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There are different levels of abstraction that are be appropriate. Existence of a more concrete explanation doesn't automatically mean that the more abstract one is gibberish.
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Not sure “concrete” and “abstract” describe what’s happening here. What I’m pointing out is that (a) facts/causes + observations/explanations can be hard to disentangle, & (b) it’s easy to misjudge how well you understand a system when you start by throwing labels at it
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