Why Does X Feel Darker Than Real Life?

Elon Musk says X can feel darker than real life: the feed has too much political rage bait, and a walk in a nice neighborhood can make everything look fine.

He says X can be a little dark, so he switches to something domain specific, like AI, to learn what is going on in AI. Walter Isaacson says that when he is on social media too much, he thinks the world is really collapsing. He then goes outside, takes a walk, and life is okay. Elon Musk tells him to go touch grass.

Elon Musk says both views can mislead. A walk in a nice neighborhood can make everything seem fine, even though terrible things may be happening. He says people should not assume all the world is going to hell or that all the world is fine. The reality is somewhere between. He says society gets too binary, with everything either black or white, and everything gets polarized.

Walter Isaacson says a person can stay in a bubble by taking walks only in the right part of a town, where things seem okay. A person can also fall into a social media bubble and start thinking weird things. He describes a real-world positivity bubble and a social media negativity bubble, and says both are possible.