I feel like we’re the blind men with the elephant more often than we’d like to admit. A lot of the time when two people make conflicting claims about society, really they’re both right about their substrate of society and the world is just twice as big as either thought.
Another shocker for most people: 20 million people in the US live in trailer parks. People with similar life circumstances tend to accumulate in similar places, only see those places, and thus vastly underestimate the diversity of life experience. (This is also true of everything in https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KpMNqA5BiCRozCwM3/social-dark-matter)
I feel like we’re the blind men with the elephant more often than we’d like to admit. A lot of the time when two people make conflicting claims about society, really they’re both right about their substrate of society and the world is just twice as big as either thought.
Another shocker for most people: 20 million people in the US live in trailer parks. People with similar life circumstances tend to accumulate in similar places, only see those places, and thus vastly underestimate the diversity of life experience. (This is also true of everything in https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KpMNqA5BiCRozCwM3/social-dark-matter)