Seems like I'm having a major case of General Discourse Polarization Fatigue.
I'm getting so tired of tribalism, pearl clutching, moral superiority olympics, pissing contests and people talking past each other on pretty much any topic relevant to today, to the point where honest and healthy conversation is becoming almost impossible, it literally affects my mental well-being.
Am I becoming a filthy centrist?
Replying to @drq@mastodon.ml
Radical woke vs anti-woke.
AI boosters vs NoAI.
Cryptobros vs anti-crypto.
Far-industrialism vs far-environmentalism.
Anti-vegan vs. vegan.
Tankies vs radical anarchists.
Etc, etc.
It's almost like the only two positions you're allowed to have nowadays is either "full of shit" or "out of touch".
You know, what. Fuck y'all.
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Replying to @drq@mastodon.ml
@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.
