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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Consequence is we'll be baffled by trends built on uniform assumptions about individual incentives. Ex: why are young men not looking for work? This is prob the biggest demographic where in-groups are varying more b/c of internet. The way they're differentiating is illegible
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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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