It's hard to model motivations of many internet archetypes: open source, reddit mods, warez scene Theory: We're trending towards more people defining their in-groups (values, beliefs, interests) via the internet. How avg person views personal growth will become less predictable.
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You could independently explore and expand your values, beliefs, and interests before the internet of course (books, magazines, radio) but this is more centrally organized (restricting depth and breadth) and mainly 1-way (meaning it is lonelier than internet communities)
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Is is correct to extrapolate that you are implying the internet is making people far less individualistic and more focused on a group identity?
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I'm saying personal identity is based around a set of values, beliefs, and interests (which can be individualistic or group-oriented). The internet allows people to explore arbitrarily deep, so the average person can diverge much more from the people they know IRL
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Do you think this divergence will have a net negative social effect?
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I think it is good, but I don’t have strong conviction. Assuming that expanding into more niches individually will result in more intellectual diversity in general
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what are the stats on “young men not looking for work”? i keep hearing this but find it hard to believe. sure some get addicted to gaming or whatever but sheer economic imperative should still apply to vast majority?
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I can't remember where I originally read it, I just know that
@tylercowen brings it up a lot. Links: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/07/what-are-young-men-doing.html …https://youtu.be/WWrwCiM4rUM -
thanks for that. i admit i am running mainly on intuition on this and tyler probably has far better facts. giving this a watch
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