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Re:Negativity Drives Online News Consumption by nonethewiser on Friday March 17, 2023 @05:53PM (#35203401)
That’s an interesting take. I’m not sure I fully agree. Lots of things are scary. But not everything that is scary is worth constantly defending against. When the news oversamples or misrepresents then people will orient themselves towards a worse world that doesn’t exist. It leads to unjustified resentment and animosity.
Re:Negativity Drives Online News Consumption by ActorNightly on Sunday March 19, 2023 @12:25AM (#35216017)
Its not about defense, its about information efficiency. Bad events are rarer, and knowledge about them is more valuable than good events.

Lets say that you had to walk through a minefield with a set number of mines. You could pay me $10 for a piece of information. I can either tell you a spot with a mine, or a spot without one. How do you spend your money?