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Could Twitter split into Interesting People Net and Hatred Mob Net, to serve each of its current constituencies better?

What features could they add/remove to make each branch naturally attract people of that sort?

I would love a “Politics!” button that would transfer the tweet to Machiavelli Net, whose users would probably enjoy it
Several excellent replies to this!

I meant my tweet mostly as as throwaway joke, but the responses make me think I should have been more serious. Feeling slightly ashamed.
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Trying to explain “mere reasonableness” to rationalists typically goes something like this…

It’s so hard to set aside the unthought cognitivist assumption that everyday human activity can only be the result of a machine that is a defective approximation to formal rationality.
Any field that seriously investigates what people actually do rediscovers this insight. Ethnomethodology has gone further than others.
Hmph, I see I already wrote a summary of this two years ago. (I haven’t had any time to write this year, so I’d forgotten.) Extracted from the summary (which is itself probably too short to explain much): meaningness.com/metablog/meta-…
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“You are at the bottom of a deep epistemic well.”

Phil Agre on the existential dilemma of the graduate student: you have no way of knowing that the field you have chosen—because the problem matters and there’s seeming progress—is total nonsense.
If you are smart and lucky, by the time you get your PhD, you have figured out that your research discipline is fatally flawed and no meaningful progress is possible.

Now you are stuck: unemployable except as an active colluder in obscuring this reality.
Institutional reforms to unlock smart people stuck in dead-end disciplines might dramatically increase research productivity

meaningness.com/metablog/upgra…
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An important practical problem plus an attractive technical formulation generate an exciting research discipline, with funding, journals, conferences, and the appearance of interesting incremental results.

Usually this is all wasted because fundamental assumptions are false.
The foundational asumptions of most research fields are forgotten as soon as possible, because they are inconveniently wrong.

This is one major reason science has become so unproductive, I think.

I’ve had to relearn this lesson repeatedly myself:

I spent three years working in structure-based drug discovery before I understood that its fundamental assumption, that intermolecular force fields derived from in vacuuo small-molecule measurements can predict large-molecule interactions in water, was utterly wrong.
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Its about to get all meta...
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Twitter has made a huge positive impact on my life. Lots of people complain about it, so I wanted to write some notes about how I use it.

Love to hear others' strategies too.
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