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It's even worse. It's not about what you can seek out. The algorithms in your news feed, social media feed, etc are tuned for interaction. If you click on a news story, you'll be fed more of those types of headlines. If you engage with certain ideas on social media, you'll see more of those ideas. So it's a self-reinforcing feedback loop.

The way it works is that you simply won't even encounter ideas that you disagree with due to the way that information is specifically curated for you.

I’m oddly less concerned about this in a lot of quarters.

We’ve hit a point where our brains do this for us, getting offended and ignoring what doesn’t match, glomming onto what does, even if it looks kinda ridiculous. (One thing I’m trying to do more of is seeing something I should nominally agree with given an outlook and saying, no, that’s stupid or badly constructed. Of course, self reflection equates to weakness in the culture war, so that’s another matter).

I’m oddly less concerned about this in a lot of quarters.

We’ve hit a point where our brains do this for us, getting offended and ignoring what doesn’t match, glomming onto what does, even if it looks kinda ridiculous. (One thing I’m trying to do more of is seeing something I should nominally agree with given an outlook and saying, no, that’s stupid or badly constructed. Of course, self reflection equates to weakness in the culture war, so that’s another matter).

Recognizing the existence of confirmation bias, admitting that you yourself are no less likely to fall victim to it than anyone else, and actively trying to expose yourself to viewpoints you disagree with and be more critical of the ones you agree with, is commendable. 

The truth is that we're all affected by confirmation bias. My personal belief is that the admission of that and at least making an effort to fight it is the important part, even if you're not going to be successful 100% of the time. 

My experience is that the people who are willing and able to do this are a small minority. 

We actually had training on confirmation bias, examples of, how to combat it, when you really should take a second look (nearly always).  It was pretty good training I thought, I recall it today, mostly.  The examples were enlightening as I could see doing the same things.

I sometimes google something bizarre to throw it off and get ads in FB for the bizarre knitting needles or whatnot.

Google on my home laptop thinks I live in LA.  I'm not going to fix it.

Do you use VPN?

I sometimes google something bizarre to throw it off and get ads in FB for the bizarre knitting needles or whatnot.

Admit it you enjoy the blue hairs and their knitting circles - they're actually very talented

I don't know what that measns.

That’s it, now you can be a supreme court justice