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This is a technical forum not a subreddit. Plenty of other venues for this stuff.

I have often .... (what is the word for it, disrupted? enlightened?) communities highly focused on a single topic with a meta conversation about general topics. It is of course great to have [say] a physics community and talk about physics but also rather sad that such gathering of analytical people cant talk about other things that very much need their attention. It gets rather absurd where people who talk for many years and are deeply familiar with the others perspective inside the domain NEVER talk about anything outside of it. It is how these online gatherings function and why they work so well but it prevents building quality relationships in the time tested ancient way.

We are missing out on truly hilarious insights, when you present professionals from one discipline wiht topics from another. A biologist might judge the fitness of the economy by fertility and average life span.

Not sure what the solution to the riddle is but I suspect walled gardens are the problem. How to code a "bring your own community everywhere" I have no idea.

The expectation of mine is that there should be a "technical" perspective to general topics. What I mean is there need to be more critical thinking and intelligent analysis, just as is the case with all technical topics. Just consider the other post about decensoring pixelated videos with Ai. If the same kind analysis and style of thinking about the topic is brought to political discussions... that's what I mean. For example, intelligent sociological analytical perspective of the political thing at hand. An unconditional exercise of critical thinking...

However, political discussions seem to not even devolve from a higher standard, but remain at the most infantile level of emotional outbursts. Oppiniated without interest in analysis. Well... likely exaggerating, but anyway. (perhaps my bias)

> more critical thinking and intelligent analysis

So it's best proposed to a community who is used to suppress low quality posts (more than others).

> However, political discussions seem

to require extra care at this stage.

By the way, and importantly, I would not call this submission a political matter, because it is not a "how to administer the State" matter (let alone partisanship): as I stated in the introductory post, I see these events as emerging changes in the state of the World and its dynamics, that require assessment from an attentive public.

Not really. Maybe "resource for news and comments for intellectually curious people, with an orientation towards an active participation or just exploration in the current world - involving technology and entrepreneurship".

I have already made a statement in my introductory post on why I decided to submit this.

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