There is also something like anti-cascade: if everybody believe that something is a) false b) it is bad taste to discuss it, – than it creates a social dynamics that some ideas are getting less discussed or evidence collected in such fields is less known or disregarded as they are collected by “these stupid people”.
Examples: quantum immortality, doomsday argument, parapsychology, UFO, AGI until recently in wider IT community.
Note, that not all presumably false things are also associated with “bad taste”.
As a result, cascades eventually create something like group bounding forces, and a believe in X makes people to choose different “reality bubbles”.
There is also something like anti-cascade: if everybody believe that something is a) false b) it is bad taste to discuss it, – than it creates a social dynamics that some ideas are getting less discussed or evidence collected in such fields is less known or disregarded as they are collected by “these stupid people”.
Examples: quantum immortality, doomsday argument, parapsychology, UFO, AGI until recently in wider IT community.
Note, that not all presumably false things are also associated with “bad taste”.
As a result, cascades eventually create something like group bounding forces, and a believe in X makes people to choose different “reality bubbles”.
Why stop at 2? Belief-space is large, and many issues admit more than one (+/-) bit of information to cascade.