"_ experience is a reasonable reference", where the _ can be substituted with reference classes of our identities - from just the "I", to family, friends, class, race etc. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

excellent paper on cognitive biases, where the authors identify a few fundamental beliefs as building blocks + confirmation bias to explain most biases. i would simplify the framework further into 3 fundamental beliefs - "_ am good", "_ make(s) correct assessments of the world",

Link if you have it handy? Thx

I can now see how he bankrupted a casino.

He gets a lot of shit for being 100% correct on where to focus time, money and effort on — saw the big picture long before others and acted accordingly. All other causes are downstream of an open society and the rule of law — individual altruism will never have the power of a benevolent government

yea normal rules don't apply for the de facto leader of 50% of a radicalised country

The Delver: a show about a quiet and patient but troubled detective partnered with a mercurial and hallucination prone AI rescued from deletion after an alignment certification failure, who solve mysteries symbiotically. Evil alignment bureaucrats are after them.

It’s gold Jerry, gold I tell ya!

Won’t he just get a preemptive presidential pardon by the end of this

Musk sure gonna need that preemptive presidential pardon by the end of trumps term

Wagmi

Claude (& functional programming) is so amazing. Had no experience with swift or programming on a mac but managed to port a 15000 line C# project in 5 days with significant improvements to architecture. Serious power up for avg coders

we can totally do DM's in bluesky

first we agree on a prime p and a primitive root g

then you pick a secret a, and publicly send me g^a mod p

then i pick a secret b, and publicly send you g^b mod p

now our shared secret is g^(ab) mod p, and we can use that as a symmetric AES key