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When you say atomic communities, do you mean something like echo chambers? Yeah, it happens. It's OK for it to happen to some degree - there needs to be some am
by balfirevic 8y ago
When you say atomic communities, do you mean something like echo chambers? Yeah, it happens. It's OK for it to happen to some degree - there needs to be some amount of shared common understanding between participants to have a useful discussion [0].
But if common ground is only thing that's left, you have an echo chamber. How to dial this in? I have no idea. HN seems to do this better than most, although some topics fare better than others.
[0] - https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HLqWn5LASfhhArZ7w/expecting-short-inferential-distances https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HLqWn5LASfhhArZ7w/expecting-...