Elaborating: A one-dimensional political spectrum is a lazy heuristic. Right now, it also happens to be a powerful one because in terms of its partitioning capabilities. But using that for the purposes of curation makes it even more reliable, with associated pathologies.https://twitter.com/generativist/status/1223247205181480961 …
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It's not just ideology that becomes partitioned. It's also things like culture, jokes, membership signals. Those things tend to matter more for our social cognition. They present bigger barriers and more reliable cues than partisanship.
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Everything becomes a self-referential circle jerk and — in this particular case — we need more integrating loops. That doesn't mean befriend MAGA429424. But it does mean pick your damn battles and actually weight offenses by some metric instead of a binary one.
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