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Jan 25, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
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the family that Bane's together, remains together
@orthonormalist @kilovh @selentelechia the two genders
@JrThatcher @selentelechia now what can you do?

there's really nothing

your in a . . . bind
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May 14
delete your account @jason_a_w
@jason_a_w the overton window _in my replies_ is that pseudonymity is sacred

so you can see the irony in making this specific argument in this specific place from behind a pseudonym
as I've written before--I can't find the thread--pseudonymy is easily defended. it has had a substantial tradition in american discourse since the founding

and there are very good reasons for maintaining it, even--*especially*--in a political context
Read 12 tweets
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May 14
been thinking about this a lot today

the thought foremost in my mind is, education is going to become much more important for our children. not as a means of earning a living but as a means of becoming realized and independent humans in a dehumanizing age
the notion of education in the latter 20th century being wholly a matter of practical knowledge rather than of personal development has always been exaggerated

but set aside practicality; imagine a world where bodily survival and provision are not dependent on such learned skill
there is still a purpose to education in conveying to children the ways of living, thinking and acting and speaking, that we have found worthy

that is, the point of such education is guiding a child to becoming the kind of person who it is worth being for a lifetime
Read 5 tweets
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May 7
kind of wonder how widespread this gets

like one has to imagine some schools are bitter clingers about this right. certainly grievance studies depts wont take this lying down

but otoh schools seem prone to preference cascades starting at the top
i was curious if or how they might justify any such moves

explicitly calling it "compelled speech" in a public statement is much more assertive than I'd expected

i wonder where this new respect for speech freedom is coming from ha ha Image
but fr i hadn't expected this and it feels like a big deal

it's the first meaningful rollback of Awokening policy, and MIT doing it in these terms gives significant elite cover to other schools that might _want_ do it

it also raises in my mind some questions
Read 14 tweets
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May 4
blackpill on elite education Image
whats the worst part
plus ça change
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Apr 28
this isnt just netflix or doritos this is every product

the main reason it tends to be more pronounced in tech products is that tech products have vastly better and cheaper telemetry than legacy industries and it's easy to run sufficiently-powered A/B tests on consumers
facebook in particular was when i was there incredibly well-developed in this kind of measurement; their internal tooling and organizational practices in product analytics were afaik the best in the world

it was an exquisite organizational and technical accomplishment
i won't get into details although I don't think it's much of an industrial secret

but basically, the impact of every feature change and every product team could be rigorously measured and tracked and usually were

there was a ton of upside to this but perhaps one major downside
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Apr 28
i think this is empirically false

mockery is extremely effective at convincing undecideds in particular by perhaps credibly demonstrating that

1. affiliation with a position will lead to status attacks

2. ppl affiliated with that position are not dominant enough to retaliate
once more tapping the sign
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agree with the first part, second part I'm not sure i do; public result maybe the same but not the private one
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