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27 Oct, 20 tweets, 5 min read
What are the biggest narrative shifts you know of, recent or historical?

Tell me yours I'll tell you mine.
This is, of course, a Loopback Thread.
My entry into this current wave of pandemic twittering was this fateful thread right here, chock-full of narrative shifts I've seen in my lifetime.
1. A brand new classic:
2. One of the OG narrative shifts.
3. Do you think this one will flip again?
4-37. Since we're going to get a lot of pandemic-related narrative shifts, I'll leave the motherlode right here:
38. I feel we've seen the same for every mode of communication or entertainment since writing...
39. I remember hearing that breastfeeding was almost a forgotten art a few decades ago in the US. MIND BLOWN.
40. Damn straight.
41. There are no words.
42.
You fuckers keep replying without liking the thread and I'm getting ratio'd by your overwhelming interest. 🤣
This is so deep I can only give it the number zero.

0. The fact that we're even having this conversation is, itself, a narrative shift.
43,44. Facemask utility and vaccines being perfectly safe have both flipped a few times.
45. You don't hear "Better living through chemistry" much these days huh...
46. Yes, this was an epic one.
47. Handwashing for surgeons was, apparently, very controversial early on. They literally drove its chief proponent to madness, and he ended up dying in a mental institution. Serves him right for trying to save lives. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Sem…
48. We'll call this a victim of "the Nazi effect" alongside the name Adolf.
49. I do like my narrative shifts with a side of prediction...

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The Real Scandal About Ivermectin🧵

Or, "Rigor for thee but not for me"

Let's walk through @jamesheathers latest article in The Atlantic to see if he and his collaborators have been paying attention to the criticism of their work.

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The subtitle is already setting the stage: "Claims about the drug are based on shoddy science—but that science is entirely unremarkable in its shoddiness."

If I am reading correctly, this is saying that both "the science behind ivermectin is shoddy" and "that's pretty typical".
Does that mean that he'll come out and just say "don't trust most/any medical science"? I find that hard to believe, but let's see what we see.
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Can journalism be rescued?

Back in February I wrote a thread about it, which I'll revisit and extend here:
Another, more recent thread of thoughts, mostly focusing on honorable use of language:
More recently, I've come to understand that the dream of an objective truth teller is just that: A dream. Counterintuitively, the epistemology of journalism must embrace humility and wear its bias on its sleeve if it wants to regain some trust.
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Breaking News🧵

Yuri Deigin's PharmaBio lost several court cases in Russia for misusing funding, found after a flash audit, having to refund the government.

At YouthBio, his co-founder/CFO has been fined $100k by the SEC for securities violations involving misleading investors.
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26 Oct
Imagine tweeting about the people you appreciate and having cynical idiots using it to sneer and dunk.

Unprovoked nastiness like this is why people fear participating here.

But fear is the mind killer, and I play tit for tat, so time for a little 🧵 dedicated to these losers:
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26 Oct
You are entering a complex, multilayered situation you need to understand and resolve. No other details available. You can choose any 5 people for your sensemaking dream team. Who do you bring?

My choices:
@elonmusk
@ConceptualJames
@BretWeinstein
@jockowillink
@danielkenobe
Equal team of alternates inspired by the submissions so far.
@balajis
@ESYudkowsky
@chrismartenson
@slatestarcodex
@Plinz
Take this opportunity to improve your Twitter by blocking the idiots responding to this with sneers.

Alternatively, if you want to get blocked, here's your chance. Write something about how my list is stupid or silly, and I'll relieve you of the burden of ever reading my tweets.
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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".
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