stephanie

a thing that fascinates me these days is everyone agrees that social media instantaneous & global amplification is bad and we're unprepared for it but the takeaways on what the worst things are range widely. this isn't a dunk i think it's a sign of healthy discussionhttps://twitter.com/micsolana/status/1270097851457007616 …

agree the internet has catalyzed a lot of dangerous extremism, and that's a problem. it's just separate from my central point, which is i think we're at legitimate ex-risk of total, instant global action on something both enraging and wrong.

in the piece you highlighted i'm trying to argue the specific nature of hysteria at global scale will be very hard (impossible?) to predict, so you can't really censor for it. the ex-risk is rapid onset madness we can't imagine, not specific ideas we mostly all hate.

yeah i don't disagree with you on that! the rapid onset waves are insane i do think your audience already focuses on that beyond the other issues and so personally i'd choose to balance it out more but it was a good piece on that topic. points to agree/disagree on constructively