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Replicated Typo
Personal blog · replicatedtypo.comculturescience
Replicated Typo is a personal blog at replicatedtypo.com about culture and science. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post is about whales in the 19th century passing on information about ship attacks. The one comment here quotes a claim about animal culture and questions it, without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Culture, its evolution and anything inbetween
What Hacker News says?
> they don't have civilization, art, morals, laws, and the practices for developing and improving these things in the minds of our children How can you be so sure of that? Clearly they don't build roads, city halls, cinemaplexes, court houses, theatres, or boxing rings, and they didn't invent Spotify, but neither did you do any of that, and you have culture, don't you, even if you don't engage with any of those exam…
Comment linking /cultural-transmission-observed-in-whales/3463.html
on “Whales in 19th century shared information about ship attacks”Submitted Visualising language similarities without trees (2012) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Double-blind reviewing at EvoLang 11 reveals gender bias as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted New experimental evidence of the effect of language on economic decisions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Iterated learning using Youtube videos and speech synthesis as a story · 1 points
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