homogeneity

To enforce group homogeneity. Like I said, I'm happy to be here and follow whatever rules there are.

It's a bit less clear what that means in this case, but it certainly sounds like they are optimizing for homogeneity. [2] Those two stories are both about culture.

The homogeneity of it grosses me out a little, even though I like GitHub and use many Apple products. It's a groupthink thing that I personally try to avoid, but I wouldn't rail against it.

There is a far higher amount of cultural homogeneity in Sweden than the US, even in the white portion of the US, and the average IQ is 3 or 4 points higher. As for homelessness, you are living in SF. This is what you get.

I'm just theorizing, of course, but I suspect her real issues have a lot more to do with cultural homogeneity and societal mobility. A community with people from all over the place, constantly moving in and out?

Its not UI standard practice, its not this new found homogeneity or "sparseness", though these all tie into the underlying problem. Rather its that the human brain is optimized for using contrast in depth or color or shade as a core hinting tool in perception.

As an aside, computer chess got quite boring for me, due to the homogeneity of current programs, but it did help to show me the limitations in current programming languages and compilers. So I'd like to do my part to put humans in their place in another field.

>Finally, the data suggests homogeneity is valuable in early startups. What data?

We sacrificed genius for our present interest in homogeneity. We began to dislike precocity in children and to dislike children themselves.

What they seem to be glossing over is that homogeneity plays a large factor in this. Whether it's tribes, races or just plain ol' religion, a lot of inherent instability comes about as a result of people disagreeing the bajeezus out of each other for no real reason other than&;&."

The key factor in homogeneity, which is what translates to ease of governance, is limiting the number of subcultures. Scandinavia and Canada have far fewer subcultures than the US; yes, people may be of different ethnic backgrounds, but they all basically think the same.

The result is everyone putting too much content on a single page - detracting from usability and creating homogeneity for users - like cars all optimised in wind tunnels.

Finally, /the data suggests/ homogeneity is valuable in early startups. You're not wrong about needing a team with different strengths, but you also need a team that really understands each other intuitively and agrees on fundamental values and principles.

And even in schools that lean towards heterogeneity rather than homogeneity, it's not like all the kids are harmoniously integrated into one happy family. Schools are dominated by cliques and social circles, and stereotyping is rampant.

The end result is that the community actually is more pro-Apple and anti-Microsoft, and the cycle intensifies until something close to homogeneity is reached. As desirable as it is to discourage low-signal discussion threads, is there any thought given to the side effects of doing so?

All of this is huge, I repeat, because pretty much every foundational theory in classical economics is predicated on homogeneity and rationality. Every single one.

We've also discussed how homogeneity is valuable to an early startup. Having everyone be culturally similar may allow faster pivoting and interpersonal comprehension.

Rob Pike's ideal of "homogeneity" in computing really misses the distinction between distributed and central syncing, the security and reliability implications etc. ...

I think that one of the main reasons why the status quo is so impenetrable is precisely because of the racial and cultural homogeneity of the country. I presume you are in Tokyo, where the culture is at least somewhat mitigated by the presence of foreign nationals and their foreign employees, but as I'm sure you know, things get pretty monotonic when you step out into the other major cities.

It's changing slowly, independent media is starting to spring up on cable networks and podcasts and such, but the overall homogeneity of South Korean pop culture means that most people will still just go to their favorite old media sources for most things anyways. The good news is that they aren't really spreading lies, just choosing to suddenly report at this very moment about something that doesn't matter at all when something that does matter is being ignored -- so they can still say they have a free press and all that.

> homogeneity is valuable to an early startup Wow. Homogeneity is a killer for any team. The whole point of building a team is to find people who can work together, and become more than the sum of their parts. For that, you need people whose strengths cover for their team-mates' weaknesses... the very opposite of homogeneity.