Theme: Education

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THOUGHTS: GROWTH IN OUR REACH ON TWITTER

CONTEXT
What I do: I use social media as a research, education, and talent recruiting vehicle.

So for the first time in history, it’s possible to run ‘tests of demonstrated interest’ in unlimited contexts for zero cost. In other words, instead of running a survey, and collecting ‘reported’ behavior (mostly lying) one can create a question, proposition, or argument in almost any social or political context, and collect ‘demonstrated’ behavior (mostly truthful).

Then I use the results of this research to explain sex, class, group, culture, domain, and civilizational differences, in cognition, value, method of persuasion, and method of deceit (with emphasis on deceit).

And then I explain western civilization’s discovery, application, and adaptation to the laws of nature, and Western institutions that result, to explain the uniqueness of western civilization, and why ‘it evolves faster than all the rest combined in the bronze, iron, and steel ages.”

And then I explain our constitution and our laws (and how to complete them) as the science of cooperation – not philosophy ideology or religion. And the minimum variation between our western institutions and the science explains the importance of those institutions and traditions and values.

But more importantly, and most importantly, I unified the sciences, and science our civilization and its laws, and restated our constitution and our laws as a complete coherent science. Thereby ending the ability to use deception and ideology to undermine our civilization – perhaps forever.

NOW, BACK TO TWITTER (AND FACEBOOK)
I’d maxed out the friends etc on FB, and we had many many more silent followers. I only used Twitter to read news, not to post (much). The reason was, that **Twitter’s character limit prevented education, understanding, and argument, and instead fosters virtue signaling and moral outrage. Whereas Facebook’s Long form assisted in education, understanding, and discourse, which facilitated agreement – or at least agreement to disagree.**

But a group of Nazis ran a deliberate cancel-campaign resulting in banning the institute members and me from FB.

Now, for those who understand my research and teaching method using social media for King of the Hill Games, it’s easy to understand that when I was researching a taboo subject (most subjects of political importance), the content I would post could easily provoke offense – but that was the point of it: I wanted to ‘science’ the cognitive origin of biases, and the means of deception we use to advocate and defend them. (I’m mostly an epistemologist after all.) So, despite very cautious and deliberate construction, it was possible to mass-report posts to have us canceled.

When I switched from FB to Twitter as my primary channel follower count went to about 4K in a month – then I was shadowbanned and removed from search results. And the number stayed relatively static.

Since musk took over I’m gaining 1K followers per month. (That might not seem like a lot, but this is pretty cerebral content, with domain-specific vocabulary – the audience is only so large).

And since Long Form Tweets are possible, I can return to educating, and discussing – though given we’re unable to curate responses to our tweets (delete comments from bad actors), keeping the discussion mature, intellectually honest, and constructive is still difficult. ( I’d spent an absurd amount of time curating my facebook feed.)

And what I mean, is that bad actors poison discourses that would otherwise accumulate better eyeballs and followers.

So with long-form, hopefully, I can continue to build an audience.

I’m hoping to get to 10K in the next few months. I suspect we might over time reach 25k or more. But the pool of people who we can reach … I doubt it’s large.

We had 2M on YT but that requires we return to populism and … that doesn’t work well for us. 😉

-FIN-