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An information cascade occurs when people update on other people's beliefs, which may individually be a rational decision but may still result in a self-reinforcing community opinion that does not necessarily reflect reality.

See Also

  • Groupthink
  • Egalitarianism, Modesty argument
  • Epistemic luck, Privileging the hypothesis
  • Free-floating belief
  • Groupthink, Affective death spiral
  • Goodhart's law
  • Religion
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60Information cascades
Johnicholas
14y
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50Understanding information cascadesQ
jacobjacob, Ben Pace, Davidmanheim
4y
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22How large is the harm from info-cascades? [Info-cascade series]Q
jacobjacob, Ben Pace
4y
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105Epistemic Luck
Alicorn
13y
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67LessWrong anti-kibitzer (hides comment authors and vote counts)
Marcello
14y
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43Internal Information Cascades
JenniferRM
2y
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16Formalising continuous info cascades? [Info-cascade series]Q
Ben Pace, jacobjacob
4y
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14Distribution of info-cascades across fields? [Info-cascade series]Q
jacobjacob, Ben Pace
4y
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14How can we respond to info-cascades? [Info-cascade series]Q
jacobjacob, Ben Pace
4y
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10Information cascades in scientific practice
Richard_Kennaway
14y
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62Diseased disciplines: the strange case of the inverted chart
Morendil
11y
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47Dangers of deference
TsviBT
5mo
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39Transitive Tolerance Means Intolerance
orthonormal
2y
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24Database of existential risk estimates
MichaelA
3y
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6In a world… of venture capital
Zvi
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