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if they wanted any degree or rigour or truth, they could just . . . look stuff up? but no . . they were jockeying for local collective consensusâthe moral truth about what everyone locally thoughtâor individual narrative hot takes https://t.co/mqwg9cFSXi

Normies do thinking and sense-making in a distributed way. They talk as a group and come to an individual sense of what they think. Nerds are the insane who try to do all their thinking in their own head. https://t.co/h3f2eWijKv https://t.co/7Q8ugiPYOR


by consensus, i donât mean âeveryone agrees on the same thingâ or even âeveryone is happy about this,â but a sort of stable âeveryone knows what everyone else thinks,â the tribe knows what it all thinks, and itâs stable, thereâs no more changes based on what someone thinks

it almost reminds me of the middle-school boy kids puffing their chest and inventing these various stories about âthat dragon that i slayedâ or âthis treasure i foundâ as other kids look on in awe and hierarchy-determining