remember, sometimes the people you interact with online are straight-up mentally ill. often in the sense that they're hurting deeply, which you should bear in mind. but also often in the sense that they're fucking crazy
i’ve been thinking about this a lot. we have systematically underestimated 1) social media’s second order amplification of actual mental illness into our... collective mind? and 2) the impact of these amplified voices on healthy individuals
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also selection bias to the extent that mentally well people are far less likely to be online all the time
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i’m fav’ing this but i’m also calling shade
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classic poast on this topic, linking in case you haven't had the pleasure and quiet alarm of reading ithttps://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most_of_what_you_read_on_the_internet_is_written/ …
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oh wait i actually have seen this!
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Theory: 1. Reasonable people ignore what an irrational few harp on. 2. The conversational artifacts become an inversion of the majority view. 3. Future majority readers perceive themselves as outliers. 4. Risk of being misunderstood feels high, so they... go to step 1.
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here's one bizarre, probably-not-representative-except-in-its-viscerality example of literal insanity bleeding into IRLhttps://twitter.com/sonyasupposedly/status/1282850861035565056 …
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