Only hyper-simple ideas can survive the discourse of Twitter.

May 31, 2022 · 6:13 PM UTC

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Yes, only hyper-simple ideas survive on Twitter. That wouldn’t be as much of a problem if not for the fact that only hyper-partisan ideas thrive on Twitter.
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If no one disagrees with it it doesn't matter
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or youtube even tho you can post long there people have been trained to read one liners almost noone ever reads my long posts there, and my stupider short ones get amazingly more likelyhood they get liked and/or replied this is a problem, not sure how to fix without neuralink
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Isn't that true of every idea given enough time?
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hm, i feel like i’ve gotten really useful nuanced information from twitter threads, eg about covid - sure there is a tendency towards over simplification but i would say some complex ideas survive!
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Not in science/math/philosophy twitter. It's pretty amazing really.
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Jorge Morales (@jorge-morales.bsky.social) @jorgemlg
1 Jun 2022
Recently, @chazfirestone & I brought a new kind of evidence to bear on an old philosophical problem about visual perspective. @johannesburge & Tyler Burge criticized this work on philosophical and empirical grounds. We’ve now written a reply: subjectivitylab.org/BurgeRep…. Here’s a 🧵
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AGING > AGI
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Indeed
Dixit @dixitbavu
8 Sep 2021
Replying to @prestonattebery
Things that scale have to be dumb i.e simple . Social apps , politicians, memes , popular music .
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Here is one: replace mirroring passwords an they can b 128 digits that granny cracks but not hacker. One way-trapdoor functions---the two differing large primes generated by granny's phrase. Instead we have 12-18 digits...stupid.
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