The Perils of Echo Chambers and Reality Distortion

We're not talking about the election! In light of the election, however, I'm thinking on echo chambers and the dangers they pose to all of us.

El Presidente

We just held a presidential election in the United States. We’re not talking politics. However, I’m thinking about echo chambers in the aftermath of the circus. These things are dangerous. They can be stunting as a content creator; they can also distort reality.

From Wikipedia, an echo chamber is “a metaphorical description of a situation in which information, ideas, or beliefs are amplified or reinforced by transmission and repetition inside an ‘enclosed’ system, where different or competing views are censored, disallowed, or otherwise underrepresented.”

We see echo chambers in game communities. We also see them in the arts, or in political discourse or in movie reviews.

Explanation of Echo Chamber concepts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_chamber_(media)

Chickens’ heads exploding near factories, an old urban legend

https://www.quora.com/Will-a-7Hz-tone-really-kill-chickens