https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1801.04335/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22072196urn:hackerpapers:mention:1801.04335:22072196Fri, 17 Jan 2020 05:39:35 GMT<p>&gt; This leads to a fracturing of consensus. But is it necessarily a bad thing? I think whether the outcomes are good or bad is going to be highly subjective and debated ad infinitum. I, for one, welcome our new Internet overlord. There are two interesting articles on this topic, I strongly recommend everyone to read them. Gwern&#x27;s article has interesting observations about politics, subculture, Unicode, and programming languages. David Perell examines the effect of the Internet in a bigger framework of world&#x27;s politics, education, and commerce. * The Melancholy of Subculture Society, by gwern…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1801.04335/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.DC