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> Twitter being the rough equivalent to Vienna's Café Central Presumably, what paved the way for that development was the recent and widely reported solution o
by staunton 3y ago
> Twitter being the rough equivalent to Vienna's Café Central
Presumably, what paved the way for that development was the recent and widely reported solution of the "nuance problem", such that we can now conduct philosophy debates without any need for going beyond a few thousand characters?
- whythre 3y agoRespectfully, I think y’all are both out to lunch. Twitter and the golden age of philosophy? I just see preening fools ranting at each other for clout. Twitter arguments don’t solve the nuance problem, they ignore/amplify it by reducing everything to a soundbite-level of text. Most real world solutions are very complicated, and not the kind of thing that can be solved by clever ‘gotcha’ style quips. Twitter is the chattering class, comprised of the managerial types whose portfolio is their own appearance.
- staunton 3y agoMy comment was sarcasm (which I thought was obvious, but I'll just have to finally accept that sarcasm on HN is never obvious enough).
- MrBuddyCasino 3y agoTwitter a lively conversation where the participants are expected to have read the material that is being talked about, which is often books or long-form articles, sometimes podcasts - at least that is the corner I'm interest in. The best refutations of political and philosophical positions are written by absurdly overeducated guys dunking on a (usually) less sophisticated counter-party with a terse one-liner.