This is tricky. Different people want different degrees of community, but even “give everyone the exact degree that they desire” wouldn’t make everyone happy, because those who want a lower degree might resent feeling excluded by those who have a higher degree. :(
Then the tech of our day can possibly help us! If social media provided asymmetric visibility so that everyone would get seemingly community that they want...
(should not be implemented before solving other issues, like how to make the resulting information bubbles harmless)
I don’t think the former is possible without the latter. As I observe the people around me, the community they truly, deeply (in the core of their hearts) want is precisely one that validates them and their feelings and all their beliefs. They crave precisely those information bubbles that you want to eliminate.
This is tricky. Different people want different degrees of community, but even “give everyone the exact degree that they desire” wouldn’t make everyone happy, because those who want a lower degree might resent feeling excluded by those who have a higher degree. :(
Then the tech of our day can possibly help us! If social media provided asymmetric visibility so that everyone would get seemingly community that they want...
(should not be implemented before solving other issues, like how to make the resulting information bubbles harmless)
I don’t think the former is possible without the latter. As I observe the people around me, the community they truly, deeply (in the core of their hearts) want is precisely one that validates them and their feelings and all their beliefs. They crave precisely those information bubbles that you want to eliminate.