Or, what I learned from watching @elonmusk and @drrollergator use social media at the Grandmaster level.
Both Elon and Gator come across as effortless, because they are. This doesn't mean they are not refined or purposeful. It means they're doing something else than trying to succeed at social media. Their success is coming En Passant, much like JS Mills described finding happiness:
While it can be tempting to over think what will preserve or maximize your social power, social media is reflexive, and the result of politics is more politics.
The way to exit the maze of complex interrelationships is to exit the maze of complex interrelationships.
And while those who hatch complex plans think they look like this:
To everyone else they look more like this:
Because complex systems are complex, for every friendship you know you might lose, you don't have the counterfactual of the friendships you didn't know you didn't make. Journos (and @SamHarrisOrg) make the same mistake when they bring up "responsibility":
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.
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.
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.
This information has been released by @BillyBostickson in response to Yuri announcing a new website for DRASTIC, listing only 12 members. The old website is still there, listing 23 members. I'll try to find out more and update this thread as I figure out what's going on.