You can think of Tyler's more obscure blog comments as a way to provoke his commentariat, which although of pretty low quality will give him a preview of actual repsonses from people he will have to eventually deal with, whether his ideas are presented straight-forwardly or in embedded Straussian code. He also uses them and Bloomberg articles to position himself in his real-life world, which is adjacent to highly left-leaning academia and tech people. It's just adaptive and audience increasing.
It'd probably be more useful to consider what CITWIS does to an argument, and the terms of whether it can be completed in good faith.
It essentially begs the question, discounting the existing context, and asking for more context that only he can satisfactorily deliver.
Which parallels another one of Tyler's usual phrases/tactics: I agree in principal but disagree with the framing.
Both allow him to frame/contextualize the issue, deploy motivated reasoning as only the best tacticians can, until we arrive at the a posterior conclusion he's paid to come up with by Zuckerberg, et al.
You can think of Tyler's more obscure blog comments as a way to provoke his commentariat, which although of pretty low quality will give him a preview of actual repsonses from people he will have to eventually deal with, whether his ideas are presented straight-forwardly or in embedded Straussian code. He also uses them and Bloomberg articles to position himself in his real-life world, which is adjacent to highly left-leaning academia and tech people. It's just adaptive and audience increasing.
It'd probably be more useful to consider what CITWIS does to an argument, and the terms of whether it can be completed in good faith.
It essentially begs the question, discounting the existing context, and asking for more context that only he can satisfactorily deliver.
Which parallels another one of Tyler's usual phrases/tactics: I agree in principal but disagree with the framing.
Both allow him to frame/contextualize the issue, deploy motivated reasoning as only the best tacticians can, until we arrive at the a posterior conclusion he's paid to come up with by Zuckerberg, et al.