ShaunCammack

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   by ShaunCammack 4y ago

   "There, but for the grace of God go I"
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   by ShaunCammack 4y ago

   >Another thing might be considering having more columns for nuanced topics, and also have icons below each statement that has a counter-argument from another column. I like this, thank you.
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   by ShaunCammack 4y ago

   I would love to have the resources to do interviews and fieldwork. But we try and get these posts out within 6 hours of them trending, before the antagonistic narratives solidify and people move on to the next topic. And although a fraction
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   by ShaunCammack 4y ago

   Yeah, this is something that we're talking a lot about right now. Left and right is a useful analytical paradigm, but it's pretty crude. We're thinking about using more pro/con splits instead. But on the other hand, most
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   by ShaunCammack 4y ago

   Absolutely, please shoot me an email (in my bio)!
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   by ShaunCammack 4y ago

   Thank you! It's the first I've heard about it, I'll look into it.
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   by ShaunCammack 4y ago

   Here's an outline of our method, which might help explain this (And please feel free criticize it): First, we look at news aggregators and twitter trends to see what the big stories of the day might be. Then we pull a bunch of tweets w
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   by ShaunCammack 4y ago

   Thank you for this! One of our biggest challenges is figuring out how best to design the article and content, we're definitely going to play around with the text boxes. > say something like, "Families who live in the country be
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   by ShaunCammack 4y ago

   I appreciate that! You're doing the right thing, that's the best path to understanding why people disagree. Facts without an interpretive framework are incomprehensible, and so it's really important to understand many disag
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    by ShaunCammack 4y ago

    I don't think this is a problem of fake narratives versus reasonable people. It's that we all use narratives to understand the world, and those narratives often conflict. And if our goal is peace, it's more important to under
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    by ShaunCammack 4y ago

    Thank you! We're trying.
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    Show HN: Narratives Project – A news product for a more peaceful internet

    91 points by ShaunCammack 4y ago|60 comments