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I avoid Twitter (𝕏) for similar reasons to drugs: I think it
would change me for the worse, and I would be unable to give it up.
After staying off Twitter reasonably successfully for years, I
cross-posted my AI
Tweets there a few weeks ago. I had something very Twitter-shaped
to say, and I thought it was important to get out, so I do
think this was worth it. And it all went well: none of this is
complaining about the comments I got there.
Coming back a few times to check notifications, however, it's been
very good at baiting me: Tweets that are confidently wrong in cases
where I have relevant and uncommon knowledge. The pull to dive in and
share what I know is very strong! Then this bleeds over to the far
broader case where people are wrong, and you have a large potential
time sink.
If it were just the time sink, I'd stop resisting. I spend some
time on HN and Reddit, and to the extent that Twitter could substitute
for that by showing me things I was more interested in, that wouldn't
be an issue. The real problem [...]
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First published:
September 19th, 2026
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tvwtwgcujTfep4HgY/why-i-stay-off-twitter
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