Highly recommend kazerad, for Scott-level insights about human behavior. Here’s his analysis of 4chan’s anonymous culture. Here’s another insightful essay of his. And a post on memetics. And these aren’t necessarily the best posts I’ve read by him, just the three I happened to find first.
I gave him/her a shot.
After five or six pages of angry ranting about Gamergate, which was four or five pages too many, I quit. I have no dog in that fight, and I find the notion of arguing about specific people’s specific lives as if they were culturally or socially significant to be a really misguided enterprise. It’s tribal superstimulus, and it is both addictive and socially self-destructive.
I gave him/her a shot.
After five or six pages of angry ranting about Gamergate, which was four or five pages too many, I quit. I have no dog in that fight, and I find the notion of arguing about specific people’s specific lives as if they were culturally or socially significant to be a really misguided enterprise. It’s tribal superstimulus, and it is both addictive and socially self-destructive.