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People think that because it was their honest hope/belief that technology would work to amplify ONLY the kind of information they like: Vote liberal, open the b
by cambalache 6y ago
People think that because it was their honest hope/belief that technology would work to amplify ONLY the kind of information they like: Vote liberal, open the borders, affirmative action everywhere, include tech elites in decision making, heavier taxes for everyone above my income bracket, condemn every country who is not a western liberal democracy. When they realized that technology is amplifying EVERYBODY voices from the town's loony to ideological enemies they want to reign the system back, they dont want actual freedom, they want finely tuned control masked as a virtue.
- confidantlake 6y agoGood points. I also hoped that the internet would make everyone smarter by allowing anyone to read physics papers and watch videos on how to build a pc. But we are social creatures, so here I am posting on a message board instead.
- cambalache 6y agoThat Internet existed, until 1996 or so. It still exists somehow, but what % of the population at any given time do you expect will be reading Wittgenstein or Braudel, or looking forward to the next Witten's preprint? 10%, 5%, 1%? The scary thing is that now he have Fields Medal winners claiming that 2+2 could be 5 only to not appear as an asshole before the digital Robespierres.