0% that the tool itself will make the situation with the current comment ordering and discourse on platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube worse.
Thanks for the detailed answer, but I’m more interested in polarization per see than in the value of comment ordering. Indeed we could imagine that your tool feels like it behaves as well as you wanted, but that’s make the memetic world less diverse then more fragile (like monocultures tend to collapse here and then). What’d be your rough range for this larger question?
The system shall indeed create the dynamic of converging on some most reasonable positions (such as that climate change is not a hoax and is man-made, etc.), which you can read as a homogenisation of views, but also naturally keeps itself out of complete balance: when the views are sufficiently homogeneous in a community or the society at large, most of the comments will generally be low-information value to most of the readers, but in such a muted environment, any new promising theory or novel perspective will receive more attention than it would in a highly heterogeneous belief landscape. Which creates the incentive for creating such new theories or perspectives.
Thus, the discourse and the belief landscape as a whole should equilibrate themselves at some “not too homogeneous, not too heterogeneous” level.
Thanks for the detailed answer, but I’m more interested in polarization per see than in the value of comment ordering. Indeed we could imagine that your tool feels like it behaves as well as you wanted, but that’s make the memetic world less diverse then more fragile (like monocultures tend to collapse here and then). What’d be your rough range for this larger question?
The system shall indeed create the dynamic of converging on some most reasonable positions (such as that climate change is not a hoax and is man-made, etc.), which you can read as a homogenisation of views, but also naturally keeps itself out of complete balance: when the views are sufficiently homogeneous in a community or the society at large, most of the comments will generally be low-information value to most of the readers, but in such a muted environment, any new promising theory or novel perspective will receive more attention than it would in a highly heterogeneous belief landscape. Which creates the incentive for creating such new theories or perspectives.
Thus, the discourse and the belief landscape as a whole should equilibrate themselves at some “not too homogeneous, not too heterogeneous” level.