Editing Bozo Bit Phrases

People like to [[Nuance Is Overrated|claim things are more nuanced than they are]]. The truth is that you can capture 90% of the essence of something rather quickly.

One way to flip the [[wikipedia:Bozo bit|Bozo bit]] on someone is to see if they use tribal affiliation phrases. These are indicators that someone hasn't though through things carefully and that they are not self-aware enough to recognize that they are displaying markers as tribal members. Worse still, often the phrase is well-known as a bozo marker, and people still use it and in doing so, reveal themselves to be particularly bozo.

Anyone sufficiently smart enough uses these trigger heuristics. [https://x.com/paulg/status/1777030573220933716 Paul Graham, as an example, uses the word 'delve' as an LLM detection machine and sets the bozo bit on people who use it].

My time on the Internet has taught me to associate a few of these with a bozo:

* carceral justice / decarceration etc. etc.
* deeply unserious
* late-stage capitalism