> When I was a leftist stuck in my far-leftist bubble, I didn’t realize just how unreasonable/unrealistic some of my positions were until I was challenged by my more conservative friends, colleagues, etc. Social networks like Facebook made it even harder to see anything outside of my existing views by primarily reinforcing content and folks who held similar views. It’s been years now since I’ve had an active social network account, and in hindsight, it’s amazing just how much these social networks have helped turn so many of us into ideologues. To now see a world where the same thing is going to happen via these GPT-based AI’s is scary to me.
This happens to any concentrated ideology on social media. It's just the long tail of only being around people that reinforce your general train of thought. I've seen it happen to liberals, conservatives, and libertarians alike. If you don't want to fall into the pit of ideological entrapment then don't justify your thoughts with a connected ideology.
I fall on the liberal end of the spectrum if you write the things I currently believe in and assign them to distributions, but I call myself an independent. Frankly, a lot of people don't do this because it attracts subtle ire from everyone, as opposed to having a close camp to psychologically make you feel safe. my liberal friends think I'm too conservative on certain things and my conservative friends gawk at my liberal ideas. I'd say our political atmosphere and the two party system is all justified by social consequences. That said, people who judge you for (non-fringe) politics are particularly awful people in my mind, so it's gotten easier to settle with over the years. Stick with the people that ask curious questions of you rather than the people capable of doing lettuce throwing and out casting.
This happens to any concentrated ideology on social media. It's just the long tail of only being around people that reinforce your general train of thought. I've seen it happen to liberals, conservatives, and libertarians alike. If you don't want to fall into the pit of ideological entrapment then don't justify your thoughts with a connected ideology.
I fall on the liberal end of the spectrum if you write the things I currently believe in and assign them to distributions, but I call myself an independent. Frankly, a lot of people don't do this because it attracts subtle ire from everyone, as opposed to having a close camp to psychologically make you feel safe. my liberal friends think I'm too conservative on certain things and my conservative friends gawk at my liberal ideas. I'd say our political atmosphere and the two party system is all justified by social consequences. That said, people who judge you for (non-fringe) politics are particularly awful people in my mind, so it's gotten easier to settle with over the years. Stick with the people that ask curious questions of you rather than the people capable of doing lettuce throwing and out casting.