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Off topic:

What are your thoughts about hoaxes, cults, groupthink?

I'm hoping to find explainers in the same way Sara Robinson and David Neiwert have tried to study and understand authoritarianism. https://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2006/08/cracks-in-wall-part-i-...

FWIW, I am scanning your prior posts (HN, reddit, mastodon).

I try to pay attention to "explainers" like you, Slate Star Codex, Gwern, Ezra Klein, David Roberts (also Vox), Bill Gates, others. People who voraciously consume info, synthesize it, and try to explain it to the rest of us.



That''s a very complex topic.

Of possible relevance, and reflecting one current of my thinking:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/62uroa/clothin...




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