Out of curiosity, why do you post on Twitter? Is it network effects, or does it just have such a unique culture that’s not available anywhere else? (Or something else?) Do you not feel any kind of aversion towards the platform, which would potentially discourage you from interacting? (I don’t mean this to sound accusatory, if your position is that “yes Twitter is awesome and more rationalists should join” I would also like to hear about that.)
I mostly reply to people on Twitter. Also, the shape of my reply tends to be definitely much more oriented around “convincing the audience” or “correcting the record” than to have a conversation with the specific person I am replying to. This makes me a bit sad, but I think it overall makes public discourse better.
Out of curiosity, why do you post on Twitter? Is it network effects, or does it just have such a unique culture that’s not available anywhere else? (Or something else?) Do you not feel any kind of aversion towards the platform, which would potentially discourage you from interacting? (I don’t mean this to sound accusatory, if your position is that “yes Twitter is awesome and more rationalists should join” I would also like to hear about that.)
I mostly reply to people on Twitter. Also, the shape of my reply tends to be definitely much more oriented around “convincing the audience” or “correcting the record” than to have a conversation with the specific person I am replying to. This makes me a bit sad, but I think it overall makes public discourse better.
Sometimes one wants to play around in the mud. I don’t think I can provide a better reason for using Twitter than that.