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The Perils of Echo Chambers and Reality Distortion

November 11, 2016

El Presidente
We just held a presidential election in the United States. We’re not talking politics. However, I’m thinking about echo chambers in the aftermath of the circus. These things are dangerous. They can be stunting as a content creator; they can also distort reality.
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From Wikipedia, an echo chamber is “a metaphorical description of a situation in which information, ideas, or beliefs are amplified or reinforced by transmission and repetition inside an ‘enclosed’ system, where different or competing views are censored, disallowed, or otherwise underrepresented.”
We see echo chambers in game communities. We also see them in the arts, or in political discourse or in movie reviews.
References
Explanation of Echo Chamber concepts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_chamber_(media)
Chickens’ heads exploding near factories
https://www.quora.com/Will-a-7Hz-tone-really-kill-chickens
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