ok I meant something like “people would could reach a lot of people (eg. roon’s level, or even 10x less people than that) from tweeting only sensible arguments is small”
but I guess that don’t invalidate what you’re suggesting. if I understand correctly, you’d want LWers to just create a twitter account and debunk arguments by posting comments & occasionally doing community notes
that’s a reasonable strategy, though the medium effort version would still require like 100 people spending sometimes 30 minutes writing good comments (let’s say 10 minutes a day on average). I agree that this could make a difference.
I guess the sheer volume of bad takes or people who like / retweet bad takes is such that even in the positive case that you get like 100 people who commit to debunking arguments, this would maybe add 10 comments to the most viral tweets (that get 100 comments, so 10%), and maybe 1-2 comments for the less popular tweets (but there’s many more of them)
I think it’s worth trying, and maybe there are some snowball / long-term effects to take into account. it’s worth highlighting the cost of doing so as well (16h or productivity a day for 100 people doing it for 10m a day, at least, given there are extra costs to just opening the app). it’s also worth highlighting that most people who would click on bad takes would already be polarized and i’m not sure if they would change their minds of good arguments (and instead would probably just reply negatively, because the true rejection is more something about political orientations, prior about AI risk, or things like that)
but again, worth trying, especially the low efforts versions
ok I meant something like “people would could reach a lot of people (eg. roon’s level, or even 10x less people than that) from tweeting only sensible arguments is small”
but I guess that don’t invalidate what you’re suggesting. if I understand correctly, you’d want LWers to just create a twitter account and debunk arguments by posting comments & occasionally doing community notes
that’s a reasonable strategy, though the medium effort version would still require like 100 people spending sometimes 30 minutes writing good comments (let’s say 10 minutes a day on average). I agree that this could make a difference.
I guess the sheer volume of bad takes or people who like / retweet bad takes is such that even in the positive case that you get like 100 people who commit to debunking arguments, this would maybe add 10 comments to the most viral tweets (that get 100 comments, so 10%), and maybe 1-2 comments for the less popular tweets (but there’s many more of them)
I think it’s worth trying, and maybe there are some snowball / long-term effects to take into account. it’s worth highlighting the cost of doing so as well (16h or productivity a day for 100 people doing it for 10m a day, at least, given there are extra costs to just opening the app). it’s also worth highlighting that most people who would click on bad takes would already be polarized and i’m not sure if they would change their minds of good arguments (and instead would probably just reply negatively, because the true rejection is more something about political orientations, prior about AI risk, or things like that)
but again, worth trying, especially the low efforts versions