I think we need to critically evaluate what we call echo chambers. The continent, country, state, city, street you live in all exhibit patterns of echo chambers

I think we need to critically evaluate what we call echo chambers. The continent, country, state, city, street you live in all exhibit patterns of echo chambers. In a sense, our planet itself is an echo chamber. Every human network is an echo chamber that boosts signals to varying degrees. A lot of times, this is a good thing! Like when people come together to help each other. The real problem is when the network itself is designed to boost certain signals (e.g. outrage, controversy) over others to a point where our society breaks down. Many of today's centralized networks profit greatly from misinformation, anger, and other negative signals. IMO that is the problem we need to tackle.