Alireza G. Tafreshi

evolutionary modelling

[Alireza G. Tafreshi @galireza]

I fear this reveals the intense hesitation people feel towards valuing what makes sense to them. Forgoing the feeling of being convinced entirely

[Nathan FOIA Tankus @NathanTankus]

One of the big problems with the world is how many people conflate incoherence with nuance.

[Alireza G. Tafreshi @galireza]

to celebrate elon becoming a trillionaire we should all go see I Love Boosters asap

[Alireza G. Tafreshi @galireza]

What's special about I Love Boosters and Sorry To Bother You is that they're movies about living with dignity, creativity, and existential ambition. Organizing, theory, and politics shows up as a consequence

[Alireza G. Tafreshi @galireza]

Just watched I Love Boosters. The movie reminds you to want more from life. Then makes you excited about the process.

[Alireza G. Tafreshi @galireza]

@BootsRiley We expand on this here: Fear of the Pessimism of the Intellect https://t.co/9jiPECC5Gl

[Alireza G. Tafreshi @galireza]

@BootsRiley "radical vision" advocacy groups are more similar to "action/activism" based groups than they admit. They organize around the belief that advocacy of the vision is always worthy of heavy resource allocation. Like action groups, pessimism towards the action leaves you out

[Alireza G. Tafreshi @galireza]

@BrankoMilan this was very helpful thank you. Have you observed similar lack of support for inequality questions in game theory?

[Alireza G. Tafreshi @galireza]

@AliTerrenoire reeeeallllllly dat one

[Alireza G. Tafreshi @galireza]

@SohrabAhmari @AliTerrenoire @phl43 fair

[Alireza G. Tafreshi @galireza]

@SohrabAhmari @AliTerrenoire @phl43 History has constitutive characteristics?

[Alireza G. Tafreshi @galireza]

@dnagosjoon @AliTerrenoire I always find it interesting when people respond to the question "Do you think it will work?" with "You have to be realistic"... (and not ask that)

[Alireza G. Tafreshi @galireza]

@AliTerrenoire https://t.co/TF4iywNzAk

[Alireza G. Tafreshi @galireza]

Important from @AliTerrenoire (+subscribe to ScaleMail for our upcoming essays on the coordination problem)

[Canadian Dimension @CDN_Dimension]

The left doesn’t have a policy problem—it has a power problem. Shifting intellectual firepower from wonkery to collective action means rebuilding parties as more than just electoral brands, writes @AliTerrenoire. https://t.co/ozMMqdzSUj

[Canadian Dimension @CDN_Dimension]

The left doesn’t have a policy problem—it has a power problem. Shifting intellectual firepower from wonkery to collective action means rebuilding parties as more than just electoral brands, writes @AliTerrenoire. https://t.co/ozMMqdzSUj

[Alireza G. Tafreshi @galireza]

@CrookedIntriago @TonyDaDome widespread membership in social institutions

[Alireza G. Tafreshi @galireza]

@tparsi @shadihamid I wish Shadi confronted your question about great power conflicts, either now or the future, more directly (eg. can war be risked in the process?) and hoped to hear your thoughts on the point that our task isn't to reduce power but to make it incrementally more moral

[Alireza G. Tafreshi @galireza]

@IranWonk @voshmosh @DropSiteNews @ryangrim Can you post some examples of propaganda from @jeremyscahill and @ryangrim ? (not asking rhetorically just curious what you mean) is it the composition of the perspectives they cover that reveals a propaganda? What do think is their ideological agenda?

[Alireza G. Tafreshi @galireza]

@BigMeanInternet This idea is explained in more detail here: https://t.co/Wt6Ela0EtD

[Alireza G. Tafreshi @galireza]

@BigMeanInternet Voluntary associations are fine, it's rate of disassociation that reduces the predictability necessary for the building of social structures

[Alireza G. Tafreshi @galireza]

@m4h007 Yes I know of the example the book starts with. But regardless of the math used I don't see how it allows for commenting on how likely the entire set of possibilities is

[Alireza G. Tafreshi @galireza]

@m4h007 This is a prediction of comparison (something is more likely than something else without commenting on how likely the set is). But what about this toy example makes it a structural model? Here the decision is that window/mask are correlations that allows us to compare options