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 The last para is killer, and I can really relate to it as a person with wayyy too many interests
 
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+> One irony of all of this is that these filters are self-reinforcing: if you select into a particular peer group that's really excited about political activism, recreational math, vegan cooking, cryptography, or whatever, you get constant evidence from your daily life that these are universally interesting topics. And if you've selected into these groups, you'd probably rather live in a world where that perception is true! So being aware of selection effects has tradeoffs: you'll know more about the rest of the world if you periodically check yourself in that way, but a lot of what you learn makes the world a slightly less friendly place.