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Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning

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The Dawn of Everything by Scott Alexander

Gloria Borger's essay won the prize for Slaistro Codex about gossip. In it, she argues that society run on raw social power is like high school: everything runs on popularity. She says we might have just inadvertently summoned back our first form of government - which is "social shaming and raw social power" It's only long until it sort of eats up the rest of civilization, so go back to the gossip trap!

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