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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

"IYI" - framing of hypocrite, but in terms of status seeking + failed praxis among leaders. Taleb's 95 thesis?Ref:https://t.co/l3cxRnSe8j https://t.co/8Mb0xmP1Pg

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5/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Why favor things that don't work in practice? What is the purpose of braincrack? I like this phrasing better:https://t.co/FwdlylWOGr

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5/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

IYI framing is useful, but IMHo it comes off as too adversarial. Target's leadership as hated outgroup. Ignores systems puting them there.

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5/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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If you look at any of the responses to Telab's aphorisms, it's littered with people pattern matching against their particular ideology.

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5/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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Is Taleb right? Probably. But comments seem fixates in the contrarianism: People reifying their demons in a mirror. https://t.co/FTKNwV1Tn6

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5/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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Taleb is exploring one territory talking about risk, knowledge, and Praxis, but many followers seem to be in another. It's weird to me.

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5/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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If you pay attention, you can start to see how almost every outgroup ends up demonized in his comments. He's like the ingroup whisperer.

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5/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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Hard to distinguish between actual comparisons to IYI vs people just thinking it's about signaling outgroup hate + pattern matching/derping.

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5/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

This is not to trivialize those responses, that kind of response usually comes from a place of pain or frustration. They're just as valid.

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5/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

More that it's fascinating to me how easily open conversations shift and get interpreted so differently depending on the participants moods.

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5/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Taleb seems to be interested in systematic aspects, the set of all IYIs, but most responses seem focused on a person's ingroup's subset.

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5/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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It's like a live example of this effect: https://t.co/EmEHGMknyrPeople losing the IYI forest for their ingroup's trees. Heh.

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

"our moral instincts generally evolved to play larger "games of life", […] our default behavior is very different."https://t.co/0dpybZR7nO https://t.co/yIGAql86q6

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5/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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Before I looked into his work, I could have sworn he was working a crowd. That IYI topic is an infohazard for ingroup signaling games. Neat.

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5/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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Did you know that "Skin in the Game" can be rederived by reading Plato's thought experiement on the Ring of Gyges?https://t.co/purS6gHEI2 https://t.co/s5mXGnPE2N

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5/14/2017