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This just wouldn't happen on Twitter

David Heinemeier Hansson · 15 Feb 2022

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People can have civil and respectful debates on sensitive topics in the right environment

Yet literally all the many debates I've had over the past week since writing about this topic have managed to be civil and respectful despite also occasionally being tense

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  1. Yet literally all the many debates I've had over the past week since writing about this topic have managed to be civil and respectful despite also occasionally being tense
  2. But the change in environment prompts them to flip from that resentful, incriminating stance in the one area to the curious, good-faith stance in the other
  3. That eventually the algorithmic optimization will optimize us all to be these resentful, angry people online

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