Social media and Purity Spirals

A “complete unraveling of the social fabric of society” is one of the primary dangers that led to the founding of The Center for Humane Technology by Tristan Harris et al. Social media platforms and their business models are uniquely primed to reinforce and even weaponise negative vicious cycles that speed up this unraveling. As we witness all around us. Today I bumped into several Hacker News discussions on controversial topics that had turned into flamewars, people from opposite sides up...