YES YOU ARE A TEST SUBJECT 😉 The question is whether you are a voluntary one or

YES YOU ARE A TEST SUBJECT 😉

The question is whether you are a voluntary one or not. The second question is whether you are also a fellow researcher or not. And if not, if you are either intellectually honest or self deceptive or not.

Again, this is what I do here:

—“Facebook is quite literally my sketch pad. If I am thinking about a certain problem I do my research, then I look for opportunities to debate someone about it. Then I propose a ‘controversial’ or ‘provocative’ *prosecution* of whatever assumptions underlie the assumptions in the idea. The idea is to ‘taunt’ people into arguing with me, so that I can work through whatever I don’t see and feel that others do see and feel. I continue this process until I have deflated the topic into nothing but operational understanding of incentives and methods of argument. Then I try to make the argument iteratively – often dozens of times – until I can say it somewhat poetically: as close to an aphorism or ‘series’ as possible. That’s my work process. Really. That’s all there is to it.”—

IN OTHER WORDS I USE FB TO CONDUCT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT THROUGH DEFLATION BY ARGUMENTATION

People cannot report truthfully.

The way to get at what they ‘think’ and ‘understand’ and ‘value’ is to attack their sacred cows.

People will defend them and I learn (a) what their real incentives are (what property in toto they defend), (b) how they make their arguments, (c) how to answer and explain those arguments.

Now some people find this process ‘fun’ or ‘interesting’. Because they can play both researcher and test subject.

Others find it insulting or aggravating.

And the reason is generally one’s degree of intellectual honesty and openness. versus the opposite.

But what some people object to is that they realize that they are ‘test subjects’, or that they are unable to play both researcher and test subject. Or that they discover that their pretense of intellectual honesty and intelligence is a fraud, and that they are just searching for excuses.