Looks interesting! Will check it out. On first glance, he seems to be focused on saving democracy, while I personally have doubts about how viable it may be (may not be a bad thing though).
This is great. I'm curious to see if the additional resources (somewhat) independent of social media, eg Substack, makes the problem better or exacerbates it.
Really interesting that a quasi-monopoly in traditional media helped create consensus thought. People feared that the renegade nature of web 1.0 would break that, but it appears as if the emergence of another quasi-monopoly of social media may have been the cause for this flip
We're doing the largest sociological experiment in human history in real time, I guess we'll see what happens
Great question! The new quasi monopoly might figure it out, or we could see other quasi monopolies break down. Academic consensus is already getting pushed by outsiders who are diving into the data (see Dan Ariely controversy). The more public data is, the more anyone can study it. Even government monopolies could be in trouble.. But a massive experiment indeed…
Have you ever read Martin Gurri's "The Revolt of the Public"? It's basically making a very similar point.
Looks interesting! Will check it out. On first glance, he seems to be focused on saving democracy, while I personally have doubts about how viable it may be (may not be a bad thing though).
This is great. I'm curious to see if the additional resources (somewhat) independent of social media, eg Substack, makes the problem better or exacerbates it.
Really interesting that a quasi-monopoly in traditional media helped create consensus thought. People feared that the renegade nature of web 1.0 would break that, but it appears as if the emergence of another quasi-monopoly of social media may have been the cause for this flip
We're doing the largest sociological experiment in human history in real time, I guess we'll see what happens
Great question! The new quasi monopoly might figure it out, or we could see other quasi monopolies break down. Academic consensus is already getting pushed by outsiders who are diving into the data (see Dan Ariely controversy). The more public data is, the more anyone can study it. Even government monopolies could be in trouble.. But a massive experiment indeed…
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