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Ley: Publicly discussing mass shootings spreads them like a meme
“You don't want to show when someone, when there's a mass shooting, don't talk about it. You're going to spread it. All right. It's a meme.”
Brian Ley: Happiness, Obesity, and Purchasing Decisions Spread via Social Contagion
“Happiness spreads through human networks, obesity spreads through human networks, decisions to buy a product or upgrade to a specific technology fashion would go to going to see a movie. All of those things are what's called socially contagious, meaning that o…”
Ley: Repeating sequential time-series patterns reveal hidden social network structure
“So if that pattern repeats enough, you can draw a connection or an edge and further network structure.”
Human networks act as superorganisms where central nodes carry outsized value
“Think of humanity not as a bunch of individual people, but as a single superorganism with every individual kind of acting like a neuron. Right. Spreading information and serving as a routing mechanism and passing it through. So, and that means not everyone is …”