Credulity Towards the Counter Signal
Noise to Signal #13

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

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


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


Try distinguishing between these two in an cutthroat environment:

On the reasonableness of things:

Negative counter-signaling:

The rigorizing pipeline:

I don’t like the word paradox.
On self-knowledge:

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?


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/WGt0q5wqkOCredibility scouting 🧵 (AKA, a list of surrogate markers):

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


In fine—


Aren’t they all correct, though?
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