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I also don't have the skills for building such a thing. But if I could help with such a project through testing/QA, or contributing to a website, or gathering r
by wendybeth 10y ago
I also don't have the skills for building such a thing. But if I could help with such a project through testing/QA, or contributing to a website, or gathering resources - whatever, really - I would, and I would use it. I've been thinking a lot about confirmation bias and echo chambers lately, too, and the truth is I don't know exactly where to look for opposing viewpoints all the time, and it's hard to gather the courage to just dive in when I know a good amount of it will make me feel ill.
Maybe just starting with a collection of opposing resources? There could be a call to action to ask people to submit articles or sources for various "stances" on different topics, and a list divided by topics and view points, or links to the few sane and awesome discussions you can occasionally find where people who think differently actually talk to each other about their differences like rational human beings. That might be an approachable place to start, anyway.
- harigov 10y agoThose are interesting ideas. We need to do something at scale and something algorithmic so that we don't end up in "chicken and egg" problem. I'll create a github project and share it with folks who are interested so that we can discuss more and come up with a concrete idea.
- harigov 10y agoI created a new GitHub project over here - https://github.com/harigov/newsalyzer https://github.com/harigov/newsalyzer and a corresponding gitter chat group over here - https://gitter.im/newsalyzer https://gitter.im/newsalyzer. You can feel free to contact me through my id @ gmail so that I can start the conversation.