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Vlad Niculae
Personal blog · vene.ro/blogprogrammingsciencedata
Vlad Niculae's personal blog at vene.ro covers programming, science and data. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Linguistic Harbingers of Betrayal: A Case Study on an Online Strategy Game [pdf]”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this site for a PDF of a 2015 study on betrayal, finding that people who are highly nice to their peers are more likely to stab them in the back.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Linguistic Harbingers of Betrayal: A Case Study on an Online Strategy Game [pdf]3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-08-11
What Hacker News says?
FWIW there's a saying that goes: "Never trust someone who is too nice to you" In fact, there's at least one study that has shown that "those who are highly nice to their peers are more likely to stab them in the back than their less polite counterparts" ymmv and all that, but there's a fine line between being friendly and coming off as a slimy salesman. Many (most?) people's defenses go waaaay up if you cross that l…
Comment linking /betrayal/niculae15betrayal.pdf
on “How to make a friend fast”Submitted Linguistic Harbingers of Betrayal as a story · 102 points
HN discussionOriginal Story in Science News: https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/culture-beaker/few-key-sign... Paper: http://vene.ro/betrayal/niculae15betrayal.pdf
Comment linking /betrayal/niculae15betrayal.pdf
on “A New Study About Overly Nice People Has a Rude Awakening”Submitted Linguistic Harbingers of Betrayal: A Case Study on an Online Strategy Game [pdf] as a story · 34 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kemeny-Young Optimal Rank Aggregation in Python as a story · 1 points
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