JoshuaZ comments on Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs - Less Wrong
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As it approached critical, it would generate heat. There would be an equilibrium. In this case, the group itself becomes super stable - but its ideas become unhinged.
I really can't think of any comparable system, except condensation.
An almost identical system actually happened in nature.