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It would stop amplifying them. Yes, you'd get natural echo chambers of the type we've had since antiquity, but not the hugely accelerated toxic meme spread ena
by concordDance 6y ago
It would stop amplifying them.
Yes, you'd get natural echo chambers of the type we've had since antiquity, but not the hugely accelerated toxic meme spread enabled by news feeds.
- luckylion 6y agoBut we didn't have natural echo chambers of that sort and magnitude, because we didn't live in a global village. I believe that the ideological self-segregation is mostly because you can choose who to interact with. That's also why it's primarily online, because you cannot choose to a similar degree offline, and the physical distance between you and your near-duplicates is too large for echo chambers to form, unless you make an intentional move to bring them together (e.g. sects moving to a certain location).