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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 34, online confirmation bias

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The internet is now the industrial group-think complex. No matter how outlandish someone's beliefs are, group support is available online.

Notes:

  • For some people, nothing is real until it's posted on social media for affirmation.
  • The affirmation comes from online echo chambers, that grow organically when like-minded people find each other online with similar bias.
  • The confirm each other's bias, giving the impression that they represent a majority view.
  • Sometimes they do represent a majority view, but that does no mean they are right: evidence is undervalued, truth is collective opinion.
  • For many people, this is their truth: online peer recognition is everything.
  • An opinion confirmed by online peers becomes a "fact". This is our world now.
  • Those we disagree with the established orthodoxy are expelled from the group, and attacked for being heretics.
  • In extreme instances, it really is a religious fever.
  • Online they collectively create our own preferred versions of reality, AKA a mass delusion, reinforced by algorithms and group think.
  • Online tribes are great, but dissenting voices should be welcomed and listened to.
  • Dissent and robust but civil arguments are the solution.
  • What I am working on this week:
    • Added a new report to https://five.today/ for calculating your average task closure time. That is now live!
    • Media I am enjoying this week:
      • Foundation season 2.

        • Notes and subscription links are here: https://techleader.pro/a/606-Tech-Leader-Pro-podcast-2023-week-34,-online-confirmation-bias

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