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Agreed on the individual side. It's a response to decision fatigue. You cannot effectively understand every individual, their opinions and intentions, while sca
by themanmaran 5y ago
Agreed on the individual side. It's a response to decision fatigue. You cannot effectively understand every individual, their opinions and intentions, while scaling your personal "social network" up to thousands of people. So instead you apply a label and move on.
But "modern discourse just can't scale" is a bit of a defeatist mindset. Surly there is a solution out there for reducing polarization.
- Apocryphon 5y agoI think polarization can be decreased, I just think one of the prices to pay might be we need to collectively agree to refrain from the luxury of arguing with random strangers.
- idleproc 5y ago> Surly there is a solution out there for reducing polarization. Well, there's compassion. But that's always been rather difficult, and seems to have fallen out of fashion... Maybe you meant a technical solution though.