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22 Oct, 16 tweets, 4 min read
A riddle with many possible answers: 🧵

Name a thing that is
- anti-fragile
- advantageous to all who participate in it
- can accommodate an arbitrary number of participants

I'll give you my possible answers if you give me yours 😁
Answer 1. A language (and the community of its speakers)
Answer 2. Blockchains in general, and (maybe?) bitcoin in particular.
Answer 3. The scientific method, and the community of its practitioners (as opposed to The Science (tm), similar-sounding but unrelated concept).
Answer 4. Something like (but not necessarily) our little corner of Twitter.
Clarification 1. It should be something with a communal / network-effects element. Good job finding the flaw in the question though!
Answer 5. A market.
Answer 6. A culture?
Answer 7. A sense of humor.
Answer 8. An open internet (see: Answer 2)
Answer 9. Open source software.
Answer 10. Our population-level immune system
Answer 11. Mathematics (someone else said Logic, that too)
Answer 12. Martial Arts
Answer 13. This is either the best or the worst answer, but it certainly qualifies based on the criteria. (key word: based)
Answer 14. I think we're becoming increasingly surreal, or is it superreal? Hard to tell -

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23 Oct
Could corporations be code?

A perma-🧵 to gather thoughts on what's needed to build a robot in the domain of legal personhood. A legal android, if you will.

But first, what is a corporation, anyway? Put simply, it's a legal abstraction allowing many people, with a defined relationship between them, to appear as one, in the eyes of the law (and other humans). Perhaps a better way to think of it is as a "composite person".
However, as always, the devil is in the details. The character of that composition is what ultimately gives rise to corporatism, the reduction to the lowest-common-denominator.
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23 Oct
Why do corporations tend to reduce themselves to the lowest common denominator? 🧵
The book "Loonshots" refers to the idea of "return on politics": Companies should try to make sure that it's more advantageous for one's career to make actual contributions than to be engaged in internal marketing of one's work and angling to get promoted and/or amass more power.
Likewise, @BretWeinstein and @HeatherEHeying refer to the problem of administrators in universities: those who are willing to bear "networking", woriking in committees, and implementing policies, are those who get to control the future, overriding those who focus on their work.
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23 Oct
Whoever claims that the American and Australian experiences are so divergent as to not be intelligible is either lost or pulling a fast one (or both). Within the breadth and depth of possible human cultures, these two are so similar that they're hard to even distinguish.
The memes are the point.
I did say *memes* (plural)
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20 Oct
Biden is going to war with Tesla to help out UAW. 🧵

Why is Sandy Munro, a 50+ year veteran of Detroit, who's worked on everything from ATVs to pickup trucks to fighter jets, pissed off about the appointment of @missy_cummings as NHTSA advisor?

Something's really gone wrong:
So what's going on? Well, in short, this:
And if you think "hates Elon" is an exaggerated claim, we're talking about someone who tweets stuff like this:
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20 Oct
Why don't we have a delta-targeting vaccine available right now? I thought the promise of mrna tech was that it would be quick to adapt to variants?

I'll tell you the hypotheses I know of, you tell me yours.
Hypothesis 1. Regulation makes it difficult to push through a new variant vaccine.
Hypothesis 2. The iPhone effect: if people know a new vaccine is coming, they might hold off taking the existing one
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19 Oct
How many lies can one tweet contain? Let's see:
1. Tesla gets its cobalt from Canada, known hotbed of slavery
2. But cobalt is fungible, so their batteries use as little as possible, and their new ones don't use any of it (see LFP)
3. "Family wealth questionably obtained" is of course repeating the fake emerald mine BS. See:
Start here:
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