@drq@mastodon.ml людям только дай в крайность уйти, они это сразу сделают и будут ещё всех убеждать в том, что так и надо. Наверное, это какое-то базовое свойство человеческой психики — найти "яму" с наибольшей гравитацией и упасть в неё, а выбираться уже слишком ресурсоёмко.

Я бы не назвал это "центризмом", мне кажется куда точнее подходит термин "критическое мышление" — как раз способность смотреть на всё оценочно, со стороны, не впадая в крайности.

@drq my half-baked IT-brained theory on this is that 1 bit or resolution between 2 states is the absolute minimum (above zero) amount of memory we can allocate per subject, and with the sudden rise of the number of available compelling subjects we started hoarding them — not having the heart to let them go because they're compelling (so the amount has to be above zero), but not being able to do much with them given the result for each has to fit into 1 bit.

The internet has been a hell of a catalyst for this, but not at all the only one, so abolishing the internet isn't going to make this problem go away.

@drq in these situations, it is always useful to look at actual public opinion polls, most people are way more reasonable

they might dislike certain aspects of "political correctness" / "wokeness", but they still believe racism and sexism and other kinds of bigotry are bad
they may dislike the build-up of datacenters and corporations stealing people's info or driving folks into layoffs, but also see AI as a technology with valid uses
and so on, and so on

@drq