Social Dark Matter — LessWrong

There are many things that people are socially punished for revealing, so they hide them, which means we systematically underestimate how common they…

x Social Dark Matter — LessWrong Best of LessWrong 2023 Social Reality World Modeling Curated 389 Social Dark Matter by Duncan Sabien (Inactive) 16th Nov 2023 40 min read 132 389 You know it must be out there, but you mostly never see it. Author's Note 1: These days, my thoughts go onto my substack instead of onto LessWrong. Everything I write becomes free after a week or so, but it’s only paid subscriptions that make it possible for me to write. If you find a coffee’s worth of value in this or any of my other work, please consider signing up to support me; every bill I can pay with writing is

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