new research on GFN, information markets and bias amplification. a lot of it seems applicable to ed’s argumentarium, if it ever leaves the utopia it is at now.

if we can choose our own media, it’s possible we will use this power to insulate ourselves in an information cocoon, where we systematically avoid dissenting voices and have increasingly less common experience with our fellow citizens. Sunstein worries that a society of these isolated individuals will have difficulty participating in a democracy because citizens need a) some exposure to materials they would not have sought out and b) some common experience as a precursor for joint decision making.