"But Johnny, the division isn't just perceptual!" I agree -- it isn't. But the division itself is currently driving the information we receive, accept, sample. What was once uncorrelated noise is now artificially powerful signal, thanks to synchronized salience.
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Why does that matter? Because the social heuristics that are generally adaptive become dangerously mal-adaptive given the auto-correlated noise that conditioning on a single binary induces. And that's what this information environment does best!
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There is a lot of, > The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. going on right now. The
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But, there is also just a lot of fast-and-automatic thinking that creates this self-perpetuating fuckery. What we believe changes what we perceive. And the information environment right now makes it possible and EASY to believe some really nonsensical things...
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...and once you believe one nonsensical thing, it becomes easy to believe others. And the most reliable information quickly becomes "who -- <red> or <blue> -- said this?"
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P.S. I'm currently translating my dissertation back into my voice while also applying it to building a social immune system for social media to mitigate some of these effects.
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But, if you want a wonderful book to some of these processes, see
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When the extreme normalises - or rather, if a trajectory becomes numb to extremity - what's left to perturb it? The spaces of the exceptional, radical, and extreme in the normative/social/judged sense, must be so too in the statistical sense, or we will lose what they afford.
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