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This page dates from 2017. See also earlier submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24627363 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24627363 (2692 upvo

• dang 1y ago
  Thanks! Macroexpanded: Like Oil Leads to Global Warming, Data Leads to Social Cooling - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38482582 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38482582 - Dec 2023 (15 comments) The reputation economy is turning us into conformists (2017) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28744471 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28744471 - Oct 2021 (204 comments) What Is Social Cooling? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25746131 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25746131 - Jan 2021 (246 comments) Social Cooling (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24627363 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24627363 - Sept 2020 (1058 comments) Social Cooling – How big data is increasing pressure to conform - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14585882 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14585882 - June 2017 (185 comments)
• hnuser123456 1y ago
  This was an interesting time. In some ways I felt like the internet was even more bifurcated then than now, between US political parties. This is when primitive chatbots, before GPT LLMs, could have mostly only been used by large nation states. This is when concerns about significant numbers of bot accounts on reddit became plausible. It felt like a time when the internet was being manipulated in a more subtle way than it is now.