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Evaporative Cooling Effect

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Sources: The Evaporative Cooling Effect in BumblebeeLabs and Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs in LessWrong “The people who are the most eager to talk are the ones who the least number of people are interested in hearing.

Sources: The Evaporative Cooling Effect in BumblebeeLabs and Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs in LessWrong “The people who are the most eager to talk are the ones who the least number of people are interested in hearing.” Evaporative Cooling is the slow decay of a community into mediocrity as its most ‘high energy’ or high value individuals exit. It is a way to think about communities in terms of the average quality of its members. When the most high value members realize there isn’t much left for them to gain, they leave (Groucho Marx rule: you stop attending any event which would have yo

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