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The Negative Consequences of the Mega Nets
One of the negative consequences then of the mega nets is that they kind of build these isolating pockets by virtue of algorithmically pushing people into little echo chambers. The term I've been using is narrative bunkers because it's not just echo chambers you can have disagreements within them and so shared assumptions very so, very so much. We evolved to perceive things in more or less small upfront personal groups but as power devolved individual agency does require some idea of a hierarchical society and elites.