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new Type of essay on new Types of guys just dropped 🌟 tldr; Types act as Schelling points for group coordination by ratifying a loose pattern such that it becomes a Thing, and people can use it to sync up judgements and some consequences of the above https://t.co/bSwdJ5t0SM
This post came out of me exploring how I was avoiding certain groups because if it's a group it can be Typed, even if they don't have any bad rep that I know of https://t.co/AOXuoyVLzh
piggybacking off of this post: Types are decision rules about dealing with people that have been socially ratified (within some local social reality) https://t.co/x6op4fVFRF
Cat Couplings is a great post by @everytstudies which compliments my Types post well! Cat couplings seem to be one of the ways you build up or solidify types in the first place. lots of great examples that they pick through https://t.co/R0Sa7JlAuH
he spells it out more explicitly here! missed this on my first skim https://t.co/G3RIM91ZS2
