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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 14 May 2019
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    Poll: Are we on the cusp of a dark age online and/or offline (defined as inward turn of life from public spaces into more private ones, with stronger boundaries everywhere, for at least a generation)?

    10:05 PM - 14 May 2019
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      2. Toby‏ @tobyshorin 14 May 2019
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        Your poll game is off tonight, you usually try to isolate a variable instead of just polling a complicated thesis like this

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 14 May 2019
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        Going for a 2d sentiment distribution this time

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      2. Carlos Bueno‏ @Archivd 14 May 2019
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        An age is characterized by what is cheap, what is expensive, and what is possible. In the future general consensus, even about basic facts, will become more expensive. The cheapness of wide consensus was a weird bubble roughly coeval with the Bretton Woods system. RIP.

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      3. Carlos Bueno‏ @Archivd 14 May 2019
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        The shift to read/write media killed cheap general consensus. Forget what the cluetrain pollyannas were feeding us 20 years ago about humanity getting smarter with the best ideas winning, etc. The more consensus you want the fewer can be allowed to edit it. Basic arithmetic.

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      1. Cig Zone‏ @ekstasis 14 May 2019
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        The “new dark age” framework of Bridle and Ballard basically presupposes public outwardness and private inwardness in a way that makes people really, really uncomfortable.https://twitter.com/ekstasis/status/1126742159455952896 …

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        “[The irrational] offers the only guarantee of freedom from all the cant and bullshit and sales commercials fed to us by politicians, bishops and academics...They yearn for magic and unreason, which served them well in the past and might help them again.” https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1126700148908675074 …
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      1. Made in Cosmos  💫‏ @made_in_cosmos 14 May 2019
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        I would hope so! Hyperconnectivity has advantages but connection and sense of belonging aren't among them. My guess is we'll alternate between public/private sphere, with private being the default. I already visit Facebook only for 2 private groups that also meet IRL.

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      1. Deanna Lynn‏ @poetviolist 15 May 2019
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        It definitely seems sometimes that people are more and more preferring to stay home and not reach out. But I think that may be changing with the climate movement.

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      1. giridhar k‏ @gkbytes 15 May 2019
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        I, like many find the question a bit difficult to understand and separate the variables.

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