#Persuasion

Darren Mooney

Darren_Mooney

I loathe the idea that “deconstruction and subversion are only valid if the dumbest and most pig-headed audiences can understand them without any ambiguity.”Ignoring the fact that (at their worst)

FIRE Journey

FIREJourney4

7 lessons from the classic book "Psychology of Persuasion"These can be applied in almost all aspects of lifeThread 1. Consistency/CommitmentTry your best to be consistent in what you doVisualize

Andy Craig

AndrewRCraig

Unironically talking about Moldbug’s “the Cathedral” is a dead giveaway that somebody is nearer the far end of the paleolibertarian to alt-right pipeline. It’s something socialists and fascists and illiberals

Adam Tawfik

TawfikZone

THREAD: The latest M4A debate isn't a leftist civil war. Yes, there are some high profile users using it to go after w/ one another w/ ad hominin attacks. It

Shane

shanenigans__

Day 4 of #ship30for30: Gaining Leverage and Specific Knowledge...cc @dickiebush Specific Knowledge + Leverage + Compounding Interest = Wealth & Freedom In a society where software and tech are eating

Oilers Insider - #BigEd

InsiderOilers

So I wanted to share a couple of things, kind of a joint thread today. To start, does anyone else notice how people change from Con RWNJ's to the side

Alan Wager

DrAlanWager

What did for Chequers? We've interviewed five people who were there. Each has a different reason why Chequers failed. Who is right?Sure, it's ancient history. And ultimately, when James Graham

Stephen Wolfe

PerfInjust

Thread:When the evangelical elite talk about "persuasion" in the public sphere, they usually assume the following ethos:1) Punch Right; thoughtfully engage Left. 2) Ascribe good faith to the Left (despite

"Hand-Washin'" Sam Whitehead

sclaudwhitehead

THIS: It's a little late, but here is the final White House Coronavirus Task Force report from the Trump administration. It features some lessons learned from the federal officials on

Rachel "The Doc" Bitecofer 📈🔭🍌

RachelBitecofer

1. One that values the elation that floods in from ACTUALLY saving lives/improving lives on Election Night much more MUCH MORE than the moral smugness of moral/ethical absolutism that leads

blackcatbone

adiavictoria

whew, y’all. been having some discussions with some of my childhood friends of the caucasian persuasion back home in upstate south carolina and the extent to which they believe that

Hans Fiene

HansFiene

A mid-sized rant on conspiracy theories and Big Tech censorship: Big Tech's desire to root out "false information" has nothing to do with the quest for truth and everything to

Derek VanRiper

DerekVanRiper

Wisconsin is being ravaged by COVID. We all need to do our part I can't stop thinking about this thread from @patrickdmarley: https://twitter.com/patrickdmarley/status/1326335916869382145 This is ridiculous. Unfortunately @SpeakerVos,

Brent S. Sirota

BrentSirota

The thing to watch here in this excellent piece is the semantic slippage. Over and over, the interviewees talk about Christianity and religious freedom, but the things signified are often

Dan Williams

danwilliamsphil

What I tried to get across in this short segment (starting at roughly 1:50): Very often people try to explain misinformation in terms of factors like a lack of information,

Arnab Ray

greatbong

Now that @sanjeevsanyal has done a thread on Indian publishing, let me do mine. Ten years ago, there were very few major publishers, all of them, except one, foreign origin.

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