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Early internet users even made up a term, called “Godwin’s Law”—the observation that every heated digital conversation devolves into comparisons with Nazis—to describe the vicious debates that happened on Usenet in the 1980s.
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
Goodhart's law, coined by the British economist Charles Goodhart: when a measure becomes a target it ceases to be a good measure.
Vincent Deary • How We Break
Why Did Heidegger Emerge as the Central Philosopher of the Far Right?
Julian Göpffarthopendemocracy.netThis actually turns history on its head. The truth is that, before their rise to power, Nazis and their ideas were regularly censored. Anti-Semitism and ‘insulting communities of faith’ were imprisonable offences in Weimar Germany. Leading Nazis, including Joseph Goebbels, Theodor Fritsch and Julius Streicher, were all prosecuted for falling foul o
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Arthur Wesley Wheen • All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel
Early internet users even made up a term, called “Godwin’s Law”—the observation that every heated digital conversation devolves into comparisons with Nazis—to describe the vicious debates that happened on Usenet in the 1980s.