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> You might find that people who are interested skew heavily liberal, for example, which would strongly reduce the diversity of political opinion. Let me guess
by reitanqild 10y ago
> You might find that people who are interested skew heavily liberal, for example, which would strongly reduce the diversity of political opinion.
Let me guess you identify as a liberal? :-)
- adrianratnapala 10y agoI don't identify with the left, but I suspect something like that will happen. People who will be interested in a scholarly sort of social net will be university educated, richer than most, and use computers a lot. So we will have a skew there.
- smallnamespace 10y agoSure, but I'm not dumb enough to believe that liberals know the answer to everything. Ask yourself this though -- do you consider openness to new ideas and willingness to challenge orthodoxy a more stereotypically conservative or liberal trait, given that those traits have both upsides and downsides.
- NhanH 10y agoThe "liberal" identity in US is a lossy projection of many different ideology axes to a single one, and is much more closely to just mean "the left" than the definition you meant. I do not believe that they are any more open to new ideas than the right. Both sides stick to the first fancy idea they knew about, and it just happens that those idea are different. "Liberal" as defined with characteristics in your question is orthogonal to whatever "liberal" is in US politics. And if you ignore children, I think it would be a rather small percentage of human.