I use twitter a lot (maybe 45 minutes a day on average), and I don’t think I do that. I don’t think I boost misinformation. Unless replying to people who spread misinformation to argue with them counts.
Feel free to look through and prove me wrong. I think you might be able to find tweets I’ll feel somewhat bad about if you post here, but I think they’d be me calling someone an idiot or something, not me spreading misinformation.
There are other people who I think this applies to too. Like @Isaac King or isaac king I think are very active twitter users who are reasonable. Even Eliezer who you seem to be pointing to as an example of someone who is negatively affected by twitter, I think is not really very bad. I think his twitter conduct is less than literally perfect, but I can’t remember him boosting misinformation in a clear cut way.
Or, I can remember a few instances spreading what I’d call “misinformation”, like saying, without caveats, that “saturated fat is healthier than polyunsaturated fats” (paraphrase it might’ve been just unsaturated fats), but I think he sincerely believes that, and not because of twitter, so its not an example of what you’re talking about.
FWIW I would agree that Twitter is probably at least slightly bad for almost everyone. Those who are reasonable on Twitter are probably only so because they’re even more reasonable in other fora.
Edit: Bad in the particular way being discussed. It can be good in other ways, like learning new information about the world.
I use twitter a lot (maybe 45 minutes a day on average), and I don’t think I do that. I don’t think I boost misinformation. Unless replying to people who spread misinformation to argue with them counts.
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Feel free to look through and prove me wrong. I think you might be able to find tweets I’ll feel somewhat bad about if you post here, but I think they’d be me calling someone an idiot or something, not me spreading misinformation.
There are other people who I think this applies to too. Like @Isaac King or isaac king I think are very active twitter users who are reasonable. Even Eliezer who you seem to be pointing to as an example of someone who is negatively affected by twitter, I think is not really very bad. I think his twitter conduct is less than literally perfect, but I can’t remember him boosting misinformation in a clear cut way.
Or, I can remember a few instances spreading what I’d call “misinformation”, like saying, without caveats, that “saturated fat is healthier than polyunsaturated fats” (paraphrase it might’ve been just unsaturated fats), but I think he sincerely believes that, and not because of twitter, so its not an example of what you’re talking about.
FWIW I would agree that Twitter is probably at least slightly bad for almost everyone. Those who are reasonable on Twitter are probably only so because they’re even more reasonable in other fora.
Edit: Bad in the particular way being discussed. It can be good in other ways, like learning new information about the world.