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Social Proof Entry #0216

The reason imitation spreads faster than instruction

Copying a successful practice requires no understanding of why it works, which is why practices travel through populations faster than explanations do.

April 5, 2024 Adept

The hidden part #0216

A practice can be copied without being understood. Explanations travel at the speed of investigation, practices at the speed of observation.

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Platform Mechanics Entry #0293

The reason a viral post is rarely reproducible

Most diffusion dies immediately and a few cascades run enormous. The difference is dominated by variance, not by properties of the item.

August 19, 2022 Novice

The hidden part #0293

Nearly all cascades die at the origin and a handful run enormous. A formula extracted from a hit was fitted to one draw from that distribution.

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