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Credulity Towards the Counter Signal

Noise to Signal #13

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Sep 21, 2021
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Twitter avatar for @allgebrah'(·) @allgebrah
2017: Indigenous languages are dying, meanwhile the emoji dialects of even two neighboring slacks are becoming mutually incomprehensible

April 13th 2017

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“Normie” as shorthand for “low-skilled player” in information domains / signaling games:

Twitter avatar for @literalbananaScience Banana @literalbanana
nobody hates normies, they hate the lack of ranked play for the nebulous social and intellectual games they have bothered to get good at (like “expert,” “normie” is only defined relative to a context, a game, a field, etc.)

September 10th 2021

13 Retweets249 Likes

Truly adversarial play is often more starkly identifiable to the naked eye:

Twitter avatar for @hanbanditHan ✨🎲 @hanbandit
Holyyyyy shit. I can’t believe this is a thing (a mouse over a watch face to keep from going into “away” status in Teams). The culture of wfh productivity surveillance is sick and has to be stopped. Not okay under normal circumstances, not okay in a pandemic. Just never okay.
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September 9th 2021

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“Opticratics”—advancement in the system is based not on merit or ability, but on appearances thereof:

Twitter avatar for @Athens_StrangerAthenian Stranger @Athens_Stranger
On this point, Kant says the following in the Bemerkungen: “The corruption of our time comes down to the fact that no one desires for himself to be truly contented and good, but everyone is satisfied to *seem* to be both” (84.10-11).

September 10th 2021

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Twitter avatar for @Athens_StrangerAthenian Stranger @Athens_Stranger
And so here the problem can be stated as followers: If the good presumed by the instrumental reason of modern science is the pleasant, then the good is equivalent to what (merely) appears to be the good — thereby making appearance and opinion the reigning forces in society.

September 10th 2021

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Try distinguishing between these two in an cutthroat environment:

Twitter avatar for @literalbananaScience Banana @literalbanana
stating things in oversimplified terms as The Truth vs stating things in oversimplified terms to get an idea of where the conflicts and tradeoffs are

September 9th 2021

12 Retweets98 Likes

On the reasonableness of things:

Twitter avatar for @literalbananaScience Banana @literalbanana
the domains in which logic applies are like the flowers on the highest mountain peaks: rare, precarious, tiny as pearls, dwarfed by the ever-crumbling, ever-rising rock pile of ceteris paribus on which they grow

September 7th 2021

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Negative counter-signaling:

Twitter avatar for @umbersorrowmeadowsweet @umbersorrow
i often refrain from saying things for which i think i might be judged favorably because i don't wanna seem like i'm trying to be judged favorably

September 7th 2021

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The rigorizing pipeline:

Twitter avatar for @monsieurbulb🐢 @monsieurbulb
3/ Culturally impactful art and creativity requires slow, deep and meandering work, a hybrid of research, development and play. It is a stat where good questions are more valuable than good answers, where patience is a virtue. Art > Philosophy > Science > Engineering > Markets.

September 2nd 2021

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I don’t like the word paradox.

Twitter avatar for @quotidianiaOut Of The System, Man @quotidiania
@deepfates @AvidHalaby here's my favorite version
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September 2nd 2021

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On self-knowledge:

Twitter avatar for @allgebrah'(·) @allgebrah
you don't know yourself until you've been reborn in a dozen bodies and figured out which of your preferences are body and which persist

November 11th 2020

13 Retweets64 Likes

How do you incentivize truth in the market of “interesting observations”? Which is to say, how do you make sure selection games are run on the criteria that count?

Twitter avatar for @rlmcelreathRichard McElreath 🍜 @rlmcelreath
Everything is selection effects, always has been. From page 162 of my book:
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Simon E. Fisher @ProfSimonFisher

“We show that published papers in top journals that fail to replicate are cited more than those that replicate. This difference doesn't change after publication of failure to replicate. 12% of postreplication citations acknowledge the replication failure.” https://t.co/LHiXcU3rJJ https://t.co/WGt0q5wqkO

May 22nd 2021

195 Retweets794 Likes

Credibility scouting 🧵 (AKA, a list of surrogate markers):

Twitter avatar for @s_r_constantinSarah Constantin @s_r_constantin
Here's my current (contrarian) dicta on how to identify credible science in a world where most apparent results don't replicate. (1/n)

April 24th 2019

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Classification games:

Twitter avatar for @The_LagrangianAdam Strandberg @The_Lagrangian
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August 30th 2021

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Twitter avatar for @The_LagrangianAdam Strandberg @The_Lagrangian
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September 11th 2020

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There’s nothing worse than seeing someone represent your side of the argument poorly:

Twitter avatar for @alexoimasAlex Imas @alexoimas
It would be great to get critique of behavioral economics from someone who knows some behavioral economics. Alas, today is not that day. This article is so off-mark that it’s worth clarifying the misses in short 🧵 1/n
thebehavioralscientist.com/articles/the-d…The death of behavioral economics - Jason Hreha<p>The official site of applied behavioral scientist Jason Hreha. He’s currently building the Walmart Behavioral Science division, which applies psychology to business, HR, and technology design problems. </p>thebehavioralscientist.com

August 28th 2021

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In fine—

Twitter avatar for @RomeoStevens76RomeoStevens @RomeoStevens76
This is what you look like when you're convinced you've discovered the correct level of abstraction to defect on.
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August 23rd 2021

13 Retweets119 Likes

Aren’t they all correct, though?

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