A couple things I noticed just delving deep into small-blockerism on twitter (general tendencies) --
- Lack of comprehension of fallacy of composition / division (therefore limited to no competency in even beginning to examine ideas of emergence, which necessarily involves the fundamental notion that smaller, simpler existents in aggregate can produce more complicated behaviors that can appear to be centrally-driven but are not); routine cavalier flipping back and forth between conclusions about node and network behavior; "what's good for the goose is good for the gander" - fundamentalists
- Lack of theory of concepts --> one type of inability to argue in good faith. "This thing A you want is the same thing as B you stupid hypocrite!".
"Watermelons are the same thing as cantaloupes, i.e. they're both melons".
Watermelon: fruit w/ fleshy seedy inside (melon-ness), outer protective rind (melon-ness), large, green outside, red inside
Cantaloupe: fruit w/ fleshy seedy inside (melon-ness), outer protective rind (melon-ness), small, tan outside, orange inside
Lack of awareness that for some comparisons, other people might actually see the red attributes as significant to the question at hand, and the real conversation is what conceptual attributes are essential vs. inessential, and not "fuck you hypocrite I proved that this thing you want is the same thing as Hitler".
