1/One of the most wrongheaded and persistent ideas floating around on social media is the idea of an "intellectual bubble".
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2/Stated simply, this is the idea that if you block or ignore people with opposing views, you will live in an echo chamber of confirmation bias. In fact, the opposite might be true. (This insight is due to
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3/The reason this is wrong is that people - including smart people - don't think about issues reasonably. We think tribally.https://www.vox.com/2014/4/6/5556462/brain-dead-how-politics-makes-us-stupid …
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4/When we fail to curate the views we take in, we are naturally and automatically overexposed to the most strident, extremist, unreasonable representatives of the opposing tribe. http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-shouting-class.html …
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5/But if I curate my feed by blocking or ignoring the most strident/aggressive/unreasonable members of the opposing tribe, it's a lot easier to listen to the REASONABLE people from that tribe.
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This doesn't disapprove the problem of "intellectual bubbles" though. You're insinuating that people are good at only blocking strident/aggressive/unreasonable members of a group. But the most "reasonable" members of a group often agitate people the most. They get blocked, too.
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