For some reason this bird's-eye view of the internet made me think of crushes, and how maybe internet pile-ons behave in some ways like physical crushes? If so it's notable that while some behaviors can help, the main thing is to redesign the spaces to prevent them en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_c...

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Way too much credit; rationalism as a modern movement is much more interested in coming up with justifications for the specific rationalist's assumptions than it is in actually examining those assumptions or the world. They would be far better named "rationalizers" than rationalists.

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Women were 84% as likely to vote for Trump as men. In prewar Germany, women were 82% as likely to vote for Hitler as men. Men's brains may have been cooked, but if so, they were cooked by an ancient evil far older than the internet.🤷🏿‍♂️

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This is true. Qatar is widely believed to be the biggest financial backer of the Muslim Brotherhood.

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