The title says pretty much what it is about. It starts discussing research inspired by social brain hypothesis. Once we avoid overly simplistic interpretations (“you can have only 150 friends!”), the idea that there are limits to the size of our social networks is reasonable. 2/7
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Did this change in the digital age? Things are complicated, I discuss various researches that give different insights, from online networks were Dunbar-like structure emerges to the fact that we still befriend people that are physically around us. The main point, however, is: 3/7pic.twitter.com/rDLrI8fIwY
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Couple this with the fact that humans share voluntarily an enormous amount of information and, contrary to conventional wisdom, this information is (even when anonymous!) truthful on average. 4/7
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The results are huge networks for exchange of information (Stack Overflow, GitHub, Wikipedia) - This is, of course, the essence of cultural transmission: there is no need to re-invent the wheel. 5/7pic.twitter.com/gFwwZDhMdP
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Or, looking the other way around, specialised knowledge is easily accessible. In cultural evolution jargon: digital, online, media creates huge effective cultural populations, measured in billions, and reachable at a negligible cost and instantaneously. 6/7
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Hyper-availability creates also potential problems. One is that, when we can copy from everybody, it may become more difficult to decide if and when we should do so: that is the topic of chapter 2 (and following)! 7/7
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The goodies: the chapter discusses networks in massive multiplayer online games https://www.nature.com/articles/srep06526 …pic.twitter.com/xmsKKHFip0
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The complicated system of awards of wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Awards …pic.twitter.com/4No46ErLMf
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Kevin Kelly being surprised that users provide voluntarily online contentpic.twitter.com/jgkhfVV4lZ
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Information scroungers on Stack Overflow https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2017/papers/7.pdf …pic.twitter.com/AzdApqyHG8
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Hyper-specialised Reddit communities, including "RTLSDR (the low-cost software defined radio (SDR) community)" or "MS3TK (a place for fans of Mystery Science Theater 3000)." from
@randal_olson https://peerj.com/articles/cs-4/ ~END~pic.twitter.com/0aEjewfMlC
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