Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product partnerships at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
You scream into the void but the rate limit has been exceeded. Nobody can hear you scream.
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Social Software Sundays #2 – The Evaporative Cooling Effect « Bumblebee Labs Blog
web.archive.orgThe Evaporative Cooling Effect - The Evaporative Cooling Effect is a term I learned from an excellent essay by Eliezer Yudowsky that describes a particular phenomena of group dynamics. It occurs when the most high value contributors to a community realize that the community is no longer serving their needs any more and so therefore, leave. When that happens, it drops the general quality of the community down such that the next most high value contributors now find the community underwhelming. Each layer of disappearances slowly reduces the average quality of the group until such a point that you reach the people who are so unskilled-and-unaware of it that they’re unable to tell that they’re part of a mediocre group.
Global mega-platforms under capitalism are structurally incapable of handling the business of civilization: of governance, of providing genuinely public infrastructure, of making knife-edge decisions about the balance of liberties and securities. It’s not what they do or what they want to do, and in many cases it’s in opposition to their actual... See more
Erin Kissane • Against the Dark Forest
My first conclusion is that we need to create experiences that cultivate a sense of agency an efficacy which will not happen in the classroom reading old books or econ papers. For me this has meant getting students to teach others and see what it’s like to give people new knowledge that has facilitates action. That teaches efficacy. It has also... See more