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Step 4 - live in a bubble where you are always correct forever. Filtering out everyone who happens to disagree with your opinion is a good way to get stuck in

Step 4 - live in a bubble where you are always correct forever. Filtering out everyone who happens to disagree with your opinion is a good way to get stuck in an echo chamber.

jessaustin 8y ago
This goes some way toward explaining the RussiaRussiaRussia hysteria...
- belltaco 8y ago
  Also Pizzagate. Spread by Mr. Assange himself for political purposes. https://our.wikileaks.org/Pizzagate https://our.wikileaks.org/Pizzagate Leading to https://rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/john-podesta-pizzagate-766489/ https://rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/john-pod...
  - Ceegen 8y ago
    Pizzagate is real. Pedophiles will lie even when caught in the act. What happened to Johnny Gosch? Who was involved in the Boystown scandal? How many cases of missing children are not solved or not reported? How many "priests" get moved around instead of prosecuted? I find that most people don't even bother to analyze things like pedogate in-depth, because either this is too disgusting to even touch, or the person is just apathetic. That being said, analyze this problem like a programmer (as you would any other sort of problem), and you begin to see things you hadn't before. Also, Julian Assange didn't spread the rumors, only provided the information. If you think "playing dominoes on cheese pizza" is a phrase normal people use, or that posting pictures of half-naked children and making sexual comments about them is normal, then f* you. (Disclaimer: Also, f* you). Even if you just go by the "~10% rule" for population demographics, that at least 10% of the population belongs to any given demographic group, it makes for a large enough population group of pedophiles to be concerned about. So let's just say (for this example) that 1% of the population of the United States (population of ~350 million) are pedophiles of varying degrees ranging from Jared at Subway, to people like Albert Fish. That's still 3,500,000 pedophiles. Using the Pareto Distribution, a hyper-minority of 1% of the 1% are dedicated to their "cause", would be a group of about 35,000 pedophiles. Given that people congregate based on similar interests and ideals, you can almost bet that about half of "the 1% of the 1%" (in this example, 17,500) are in some sort of group that works together for the mutual benefit of the overall group. 17,500 is a lot of people. What kind of things can you get done with a group of very intelligent predators whose targets are children? And that's just the core group, who knows how many underlings they have working for them with similar interests, given these demographics... I mean, Goldman-Sachs has about 36k employees, and they're worth how much? The US Army reported 1,281,900 service members in 2017, and not all of them are in the "core group" 1% of 1%" that account for high-ranking power brokers, but the armed forces all work together as a well-oiled machine to accomplish a goal. Is it such a far-fetched idea that pedophiles don't have their own goal-oriented group? How many of them work in the entertainment and news industry? (Dan Harmon made a video about raping babies, and he thought it was funny...). Was Corey Feldman lying? FFS people back in the early 1900's thought that "organized crime" was an oxymoron, what is so hard to believe about this? I think it comes down to either you don't know or you don't want to know.
  - rorykoehler 8y ago
    Did you read the pizzagate emails? I won't speculate on their meaning but they are weird as hell and I would like a plausible explanation as to what they were talking about.
  - jessaustin 8y ago
    Yes I agree that random crazy people should be held to the same standard as the war media.
rorykoehler 8y ago
I don't get purchasing recommendations from paid ads in my instagram feed.
jancsika 8y ago
> Step 4 - live in a bubble where you are always correct forever. Since I'm forced to interpret your comment in the most generous way, I'll reply with yes. Step 4 is living in a bubble where obviously incorrect interpretations of the world don't waste much of my time and concentration. But even if I were wrong on the facts of this particular case I wouldn't end up in an echo chamber. I simply end up reading a variety of op-eds and articles written by people who vociferously defend freedom of the press. AFAICT those writers cross ideological lines.

Step 4 - live in a bubble where you are always correct forever. Filtering out everyone who happens to disagree with your opinion is a good way to get stuck in an echo chamber.

jessaustin 8y ago

This goes some way toward explaining the RussiaRussiaRussia hysteria...

belltaco 8y ago
Also Pizzagate. Spread by Mr. Assange himself for political purposes. https://our.wikileaks.org/Pizzagate https://our.wikileaks.org/Pizzagate Leading to https://rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/john-podesta-pizzagate-766489/ https://rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/john-pod...
- Ceegen 8y ago
  Pizzagate is real. Pedophiles will lie even when caught in the act. What happened to Johnny Gosch? Who was involved in the Boystown scandal? How many cases of missing children are not solved or not reported? How many "priests" get moved around instead of prosecuted? I find that most people don't even bother to analyze things like pedogate in-depth, because either this is too disgusting to even touch, or the person is just apathetic. That being said, analyze this problem like a programmer (as you would any other sort of problem), and you begin to see things you hadn't before. Also, Julian Assange didn't spread the rumors, only provided the information. If you think "playing dominoes on cheese pizza" is a phrase normal people use, or that posting pictures of half-naked children and making sexual comments about them is normal, then f* you. (Disclaimer: Also, f* you). Even if you just go by the "~10% rule" for population demographics, that at least 10% of the population belongs to any given demographic group, it makes for a large enough population group of pedophiles to be concerned about. So let's just say (for this example) that 1% of the population of the United States (population of ~350 million) are pedophiles of varying degrees ranging from Jared at Subway, to people like Albert Fish. That's still 3,500,000 pedophiles. Using the Pareto Distribution, a hyper-minority of 1% of the 1% are dedicated to their "cause", would be a group of about 35,000 pedophiles. Given that people congregate based on similar interests and ideals, you can almost bet that about half of "the 1% of the 1%" (in this example, 17,500) are in some sort of group that works together for the mutual benefit of the overall group. 17,500 is a lot of people. What kind of things can you get done with a group of very intelligent predators whose targets are children? And that's just the core group, who knows how many underlings they have working for them with similar interests, given these demographics... I mean, Goldman-Sachs has about 36k employees, and they're worth how much? The US Army reported 1,281,900 service members in 2017, and not all of them are in the "core group" 1% of 1%" that account for high-ranking power brokers, but the armed forces all work together as a well-oiled machine to accomplish a goal. Is it such a far-fetched idea that pedophiles don't have their own goal-oriented group? How many of them work in the entertainment and news industry? (Dan Harmon made a video about raping babies, and he thought it was funny...). Was Corey Feldman lying? FFS people back in the early 1900's thought that "organized crime" was an oxymoron, what is so hard to believe about this? I think it comes down to either you don't know or you don't want to know.
- rorykoehler 8y ago
  Did you read the pizzagate emails? I won't speculate on their meaning but they are weird as hell and I would like a plausible explanation as to what they were talking about.
- jessaustin 8y ago
  Yes I agree that random crazy people should be held to the same standard as the war media.

rorykoehler 8y ago

I don't get purchasing recommendations from paid ads in my instagram feed.

jancsika 8y ago

> Step 4 - live in a bubble where you are always correct forever. Since I'm forced to interpret your comment in the most generous way, I'll reply with yes. Step 4 is living in a bubble where obviously incorrect interpretations of the world don't waste much of my time and concentration. But even if I were wrong on the facts of this particular case I wouldn't end up in an echo chamber. I simply end up reading a variety of op-eds and articles written by people who vociferously defend freedom of the press. AFAICT those writers cross ideological lines.