Tangential, but I’m on the far left of the American political spectrum and recently learned about https://www.newsmax.com/ and have been actively reading it to try to understand the current political schism because fox wasn’t cutting it anymore
Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you escape your echo chamber
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Re: Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you escape your echo chamber
#72I'll give you this, I had no idea how much Christian self-help literature I was missing out on.
I’ve pretty actively read stuff in that vein for years trying to connect the religious tie to right in America. It’s fascinating
Re: Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you escape your echo chamber
#73Tangential, but I’m on the far left of the American political spectrum and recently learned about https://www.newsmax.com/ and have been actively reading it to try to understand the current political schism because fox wasn’t cutting it anymore
Good for you. I'm also somebody of the left who's spent a lot of time in the last few years in places that would lose me my right-on badges.
It's been eye-opening at times, disturbing at others; but often educational and useful for my intellectual health and development.
Re: Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you escape your echo chamber
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's an interesting idea! I could see it being good training for simultaneously holding two opposing thoughts in your head at any given time. What do you hope to gain out of going to the effort of consuming media like this? Why not just go on an information diet altogether?
I think it is valuable to read a hundred convincingly-written arguments in favor of one point of view, become convinced, and then read a hundred opposing arguments and again become convinced. This maintains my awareness of the fact that I'm a terrible judge of veracity of arguments. Since I want to know what happens in the world, I must be exposed to arguments, so I think it's very important to be viscerally aware th…
That’s very perceptive. Have you been surprised at all, after reading both arguments, which side of the fence you wind up on?
Re: Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you escape your echo chamber
#75Tangential, but I’m on the far left of the American political spectrum and recently learned about https://www.newsmax.com/ and have been actively reading it to try to understand the current political schism because fox wasn’t cutting it anymore
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Re: Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you escape your echo chamber
#76I like this tool a lot. I wouldn’t mind having a similar concept applied to YouTube. If you actively try and watch videos from a different viewpoint then your recommendations are all over the place.
Re: Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you escape your echo chamber
#77Hi HN. I made a tool that allows you to discover what books you are least likely to have come across or enjoyed, but are nonetheless highly rated. These books will likely challenge you if you tend to read quite narrowly. Briefly, for each book entered we find the rarest but highest rated intersections and provide those to you. The query can be summarised as: which highly rated books are least read (and enjoyed) by pe…
Yes, we need more engines like yours.
Instead, Amazon, Spotify, etc. simply steer me toward the more mainstream genre-media that I already know about.
Oh you like Grandaddy? You'll like the Pixies.
Oh you like the Pixies? You'll like Radiohead.
Oh you like the Radiohead? You'll like Nirvana.
Please, I want to go the opposite direction.
Re: Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you escape your echo chamber
#78I got Mother Goose.
Re: Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you escape your echo chamber
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
My own experience is that it works quite well for a certain kind of person: on Reddit I was simultaneously subbed to /r/The_Donald, /r/politics, /r/ChapoTrapHouse, /r/Libertarian, etc (while those were still around). I'd also drop by voat occasionally to get my weekly sample of virulently antisemitic takes. I think looking at extremes is the most realistic path. Purportedly balanced sources are dangerous because thei…
That's an interesting idea! I could see it being good training for simultaneously holding two opposing thoughts in your head at any given time. What do you hope to gain out of going to the effort of consuming media like this? Why not just go on an information diet altogether?
I consume media the sane way as OP, here are my answers:
1. Being able to hold conversations with people from all political persuasions (eg. Knowing how to reach agreement on things and knowing what pushes their buttons) 2. Entertainment
Re: Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you escape your echo chamber
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
My own experience is that it works quite well for a certain kind of person: on Reddit I was simultaneously subbed to /r/The_Donald, /r/politics, /r/ChapoTrapHouse, /r/Libertarian, etc (while those were still around). I'd also drop by voat occasionally to get my weekly sample of virulently antisemitic takes. I think looking at extremes is the most realistic path. Purportedly balanced sources are dangerous because thei…
My experience is surely anecdotal, but I feel your POV applies more to open minded people, while close minded people are more inclined to feel threatened by opposite perspectives.
Sometimes those opposite perspectives really are threatening, though.