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I'm getting flashbacks to the 2018 hit: This is extremely dangerous to our democracy We evolved to share information through text and media, and with the
by andrewstuart2 5mo ago
I'm getting flashbacks to the 2018 hit:
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy
We evolved to share information through text and media, and with the advent of printing and now the internet, we often derive our feelings of consensus and sureness from the preponderance of information that used to take more effort to produce. Now we're now at a point where a disproportionately small input can produce a massively proliferated, coherent-enough output, that can give the appearance of consensus, and I'm not sure how we are going to deal with that.
- lovecg 5mo agoThis could have been written almost verbatim after the printing press came out and printed pamphlets became ubiquitous.