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I remember people in elation over the idea that information would be democratized and control taken away from "the establishment". No longer would any small gro

by wrp 4y ago

I remember people in elation over the idea that information would be democratized and control taken away from "the establishment". No longer would any small group of people be able to restrict flow of information.

robotresearcher 4y ago
That almost came true, but ignores people’s decisions about which sources to attend to. And with scarcity inverted from information supply to demand, each information source will spend more and more of their bandwidth declaring the other sources worthless and evil, and that only their source is worth attention. This way people are driven to consume very few sources, whose content is inevitably impoverished. How to break out of this dynamic?