Ironic that on a post about groupthink, the one post that did not properly celebrate and idolize tech got downvoted.
So, I'll add to the OP's asked-for list: Hacker News.
Hacker News is the home of groupthink, because it's where smart people go to appear smart to other smart people. Its tendency towards homogenous opinion isn't a side-effect, it's the point -- because the nicer way of saying 'groupthink' is 'synthesis', in the dialectic sense. (Thesis + antithesis.)
I will go out on a limb and say that groupthink is what happens when the signal-to-noise ratio gets too good. When everyone hears exactly what they want to hear, because annoyances have been downvoted and greytexted.
Parent's tone is admittedly jagged, but, in a year where the ML thought products of my industry now routinely threaten to disrupt not just other industries, but whole social and political order, I cannot disagree.
Regulation is not fun, but we have it coming. Adolescence ends when you discover your fallibility.
So, I'll add to the OP's asked-for list: Hacker News.
Hacker News is the home of groupthink, because it's where smart people go to appear smart to other smart people. Its tendency towards homogenous opinion isn't a side-effect, it's the point -- because the nicer way of saying 'groupthink' is 'synthesis', in the dialectic sense. (Thesis + antithesis.)
I will go out on a limb and say that groupthink is what happens when the signal-to-noise ratio gets too good. When everyone hears exactly what they want to hear, because annoyances have been downvoted and greytexted.
Parent's tone is admittedly jagged, but, in a year where the ML thought products of my industry now routinely threaten to disrupt not just other industries, but whole social and political order, I cannot disagree.
Regulation is not fun, but we have it coming. Adolescence ends when you discover your fallibility.