Thread by @eigenrobot

many of my tweets are deliberately false statements intended to tweak ppl into getting mad enough to develop a rebuttal

yes, i am a practitioner of the dark socratic method

blackpill on that method is that usually ppl just get mad and dont come up with any interesting responses

whitepill is thats fun too

xanatos socraticism

more seriously you dont have to believe things that you think and as long as your good at maintaining your distance from your speculations there can be a lot of value in _just saying stuff_ to see how it sounds outside your head, and in letting ppl interact with those thoughts

@WillWorth

for example the first two tweets in this thread were a fun self-framing i was just trying out. i think theyre maybe 20% true overall, and mildly funny, but by writing them out and skimming replies i was able to iterate to the third tweet, which i think i endorse >90%

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