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xtiansimon | 9 days ago

> “It is fascinating to observe the concept of protest...just one example of the general case of a metric ceasing to be useful once it is recognize as a metric.”

Isn’t this just a case of “semantic drift”?

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gradus_ad|9 days ago

It's a particular phenomena that results in semantic change, but just dismissing it as drift misses the interesting dynamics at play.