I know we like yelling at @jack because he's wildly incompetent, but I cannot think of an idea worse than trying to smash everyone into a single, synchronized sociocultural context armed with 240 characters and profiles made for easy stereotyping.https://twitter.com/jack/status/1047945945143545858 …
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Replying to @generativist @jack
I feel like a form of this explains some of Twitter's weirdness. Everyone's in everyone else's grill all the time
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Replying to @davidodowd0 @jack
Yea. A chapter in my dissertation specifically simulates what happens when contexts get synchronized. It induces polarization that wouldn't occur in the async case even WITH the same level of exposures to that context.
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Replying to @generativist @jack
That's really interesting. Could you clarify what you mean by "synchronize"? Is the dissertation available online?
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Replying to @davidodowd0 @jack
Not yet -- not finished! It will be though. It's a git repository of
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Replying to @generativist @davidodowd0 and
But, the gist of that is by compelling a discussion in a narrow context, mass media forces collisions that wouldn't otherwise occur. And, to lower cognitive load, people then rely on easily-accessible stereotypes to skip thinking.
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Replying to @generativist @davidodowd0 and
That's why troll's are so successful on here -- the combat generates salience and the medium provides easily accessible stereotypes.
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We're at a bit of inferential distance here (as
@ESYudkowsky would say) but I think I follow what you're saying. So everybody reacting to the same stories at the same time is part of the problem?3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
I think it's more like, 1) Interacting in a synchronized context; and, 2) Given enough identity info to make stereotyping a good signal:noise proposition. And, that's a positive feedback loop: stereotypes end up carving out groups partitioned by beliefs, creating more signal.
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