Credulity Towards the Counter Signal

Noise to Signal #13

'(·) @allgebrah

2017: Indigenous languages are dying, meanwhile the emoji dialects of even two neighboring slacks are becoming mutually incomprehensible

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

Science 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.)

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

Han ✨🎲 @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.

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

Athenian 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).

Athenian 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.

Try distinguishing between these two in an cutthroat environment:

Science 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

On the reasonableness of things:

Science 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

Negative counter-signaling:

meadowsweet @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

The rigorizing pipeline:

🐢 @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.

I don’t like the word paradox.

Out Of The System, Man @quotidiania

@deepfates @AvidHalaby here's my favorite version

On self-knowledge:

'(·) @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

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?

Richard McElreath 🍜 @rlmcelreath

Everything is selection effects, always has been. From page 162 of my book:

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

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

Sarah 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)

Classification games:

Adam Strandberg @The_Lagrangian

Adam Strandberg @The_Lagrangian

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

Alex 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…

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In fine—

RomeoStevens @RomeoStevens76

This is what you look like when you're convinced you've discovered the correct level of abstraction to defect on.

Aren’t they all correct, though?