Are you talking about HN or Quora?
What's "the bubble"?
> This would jive with his above narrative, but many other stories could explain as well.
Are you saying you don't assign a high probability to your story being correct?
What's "the bubble"?
> This would jive with his above narrative, but many other stories could explain as well.
Are you saying you don't assign a high probability to your story being correct?
By bubble, I mean the memetic assumptions that any culture takes for granted. They generally only get questioned when some event happens that causes an individual to doubt a prevailing narrative. Usually, that individual then seems crazy to everybody who is comfortable leaving said narrative unquestioned.
I definitely saw insightful comments from him, so I'm not not going to speak up. I was merely hedging my assessment because it's impossible to discern justified from unjustified paranoia [0], especially merely observing via a forum.
[0] I hate when this word is used as a pejorative, but I don't intend it as such. Much paranoia is justified.
I can't speak to that. My quote was about Quora.
> By bubble, I mean the memetic assumptions that any culture takes for granted.
Oh, I see. Like slavery, religion, or when people talk about morality without knowing there are different moralities, or the unquestioning love of the state. AKA mass ignorance. Or more benignly: tradition/mores. And on the positive side: protocols.