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Something I haven't seen mentioned yet is the voting system. I think the voting system ruins online discourse. Let me explain. Within my own social media and o
by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
Something I haven't seen mentioned yet is the voting system. I think the voting system ruins online discourse.
Let me explain. Within my own social media and online forum bubbles, there are a certain set of norms and beliefs that are easy to express.
But should I express the 'wrong' beliefs in the 'wrong' forum, I simply get downvoted to oblivion. And then people don't see what I have to say. Look what happens here on Hacker News, my comments will literally start faaaaading awaaaaaay!
- dredmorbius 10y agoTruth isn't a majority opinion. It's correspondence to an external Universe. Voting systems _may_ help get you there, but not if the voting-group tendency rewards values other than truth. Related: Celine's 2nd law. The problem is complex: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology/