: If you go protected you can manage your info env.
Me: But won't that construct an echo chamber?
: It doesn't have to if you're careful and deliberate.
Me: OK but I think you're failing to remember how good it feels when strangers agree with me on the internet, too.
:https://twitter.com/generativist/status/1113473361810665472 …
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What's wrong with creating an echo chamber? I get that some people think that in some vague abstract way it hurts the body politic, but that seems like weighing a real concrete harm to your sanity against a potential and frankly unproven harm to society.
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Replying to @kareem_carr
IMO: Very little. Your instinct is right. Echo chambers don't do the harm. If you stuck me in an echo chamber for a long that only talked about the flat earth, you wouldn't move me one bit.
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The bad effects only manifest when your chamber and mine are socially-partitioned and spend a pathology-inducing amount of time in adversarial inter-group contact. Absent that, mistakes tend to melt away because errors are expensive.
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A lot of people have lost the art of listening to adults they think are talking nonsense. Think about talking to a child. Sometimes they don't 100% make sense, but you listen patiently and try to relate, because the socialization is good for you and good for the child.
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Replying to @kareem_carr
Yes. And I really appreciate accounts that try to address ideas *and* people they don't agree with on this website (e.g.
@RogueNotary), because I'm trying to figure out the best ways of doing so (on social mediums).1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes -
Both the facts & logic crowd *and* academics tend to forget it's a mixture, not just about ideas.
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Oh, also, you may want to check out the essay referenced in this tweet. It's been stuck in my mind for a few weeks now.https://twitter.com/generativist/status/1106634476044632065 …
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