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Heather Marsh
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Heather Marsh's personal blog at georgiebc.wordpress.com covers politics, science and philosophy. Since 2012, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Commenters link Heather Marsh's blog for her writing on endogroups and cosmopolitan social life, and for a post on Gee tools raised in a thread about toxic Wikipedia editors.
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Rethinking the moats and mountains
What Hacker News says?
If you've read Heather Marsh this observation maps well to her writing on endogroups [0]: cosmopolitan life is exosocial, with many permeable boundaries. This attracts everyone, which means it attracts endoselves too. They walk into the space and start remaking it around them, and pretty soon the cosmopolitan life stops, replaced with reenforcement of some endogroup dynamic, which is of course bland and sterile. The…
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on “Rents are dropping across the US”Submitted The Epstein Files by Heather Marsh as a story · 11 points
HN discussionYou might be interested in Gee's approach. https://georgiebc.wordpress.com/2015/12/24/getgee-tools-for-...
Comment linking /2015/12/24/getgee-tools-for-self-governance-part-1/
on “Handful of “highly toxic” Wikipedia editors cause 9% of abuse”Submitted How to Dismantle a Dictatorship as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThe idea's been percolating for a while - one of the major facets of blockchain technology is that it can be used to effect many kinds of transactions, where traditional finance is just the simplest one to conceive of. Simultaneously there's been a thread of philosophy arising from various sources(Singularity writers, cypherpunks, Anonymous) that advocates new governance forms that fully exploit digital technology.…
Comment linking /2013/05/24/binding-chaos/
on “Eris: A Decentralized Autonomous Organization Framework”Submitted The catalyst effect of Covid-19 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted We have free software. We need free databases as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted SpaceX: Flying High on Impunity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Flying High on Impunity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Science, isolation and control as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stigmergy as a story · 1 points
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