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tomc1985

Allowing like-minded people to find each other is not necessarily virtuous. A group of people who congeal purely for like-mindedness get lost in groupthink and the herd mentality.

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I think there’s a lot of truth to this in today’s polarized environment. It is easier than ever to pick and choose exactly which groups of people you want to associate with - and equally easy to silence and ignore those with conflicting views. In the olden days you had to tar and feather someone to get rid of them - it’s simply no longer true in today’s social media society.

I think we humans like to think we are driven to connect solely by mutual interests, but in reality our social dynamics are much more complex than that. Reducing the abstraction of how people meet into a graph problem is the source of much of our societal issues with social media and sociability in general.

And man, does tech sure like it's careless and simplified approaches. Every day I am a little bit more convinced that we tech people are the only ones convinced of our genius

Exactly. Imagine Town Square like environment where people could Converse about tech and other nonsense without needing to physically be in the same location. The Horror.

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