This recent paper was a super-interesting read with an elegant model & some great data (#Atari games, crypto white papers, & reddit memes). But... I'm a priori skeptical of *any* #SocialScience paper that uncritically cites books by Malcolm Gladwell and Richard Dawkins.

"Dilution of expertise in the rise and fall of collective innovation", Nature 2022.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-022-01380-5

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