Social Dark Matter
from LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
You know it must be out there, but you mostly never see it. Author's Note 1: I'm something like 75% confident that this will be the last essay that I publish on LessWrong. Future content will be available on my substack, where I'm hoping people will be willing to chip in a little commensurate with the value of the writing, and (after a delay) on my personal site. I decided to post this final essay here rather than silently switching over because many LessWrong readers would otherwise never find out that they could still get new Duncan content elsewhere. Author's Note 2: This essay is not intended to be revelatory. Instead, it's attempting to get the consequences of a few very obvious things lodged into your brain, such that they actually occur to you from time to time as opposed to occurring to you approximately never. Most people [...] The original text contained 9 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: November 7th, 2023 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KpMNqA5BiCRozCwM3/social-dark-matter --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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You know it must be out there, but you mostly never see it. Author's Note 1: I'm something like 75% confident that this will be the last essay that I publish on LessWrong. Future content will be available on my substack, where I'm hoping people will be willing to chip in a little commensurate with the value of the writing, and (after a delay) on my personal site. I decided to post this final essay here rather than silently switching over because many LessWrong readers would otherwise never...
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