Careful, center-seeking strategies on their own tend to incentivize extremism because they systematically under-weight correct positions within the Overton wind

Careful, center-seeking strategies on their own tend to incentivize extremism because they systematically under-weight correct positions within the Overton window while they over-weight incorrect extreme positions designed to nudge the Overton window. Don't get me wrong, I think it's an excellent idea to seek out both sides, but developing and applying trust heuristics is critical or the strategy is easy to exploit. Nothing has improved my respect for traditional media as much as the evolution of my trust heuristics for alternative media.