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maandag, januari 02, 2023

The internet wants to be fragmented

"15 years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now, the real world is an escape from the internet." 

That experiment failed. Humanity does not want to be a global hive mind. We are not rational Bayesian updaters who will eventually reach agreement; when we receive the same information, it tends to polarize us rather than unite us. Getting screamed at and insulted by people who disagree with you doesn't take you out of your filter bubble — it makes you retreat back inside your bubbleand reject the ideas of whoever is screaming at you. No one ever changed their mind from being dunked on; instead they all just doubled down and dunked harder. The hatred and toxicity of Twitter at times felt like the dying screams of human individuality, being crushed to death by the hive mind's constant demands for us to agree with more people than we ever evolved to agree with.