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— Lao Tzu said this too, 2,500 years ago. In chapter 81 of the Tao Te Ching: True words are not fine-sounding; Fine-sounding words are not true. The good man does not prove by argu…

I don’t think “just throw a single coin” really captures how I Ching divination traditionally works. The classical Dayan method is based on human participation through division and…

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Show me the incentives, I'll show you the outcome. Timeless, be it human or machine

> The companies that benefit most from it contribute disproportionately less than their benefit. We covered the structural reason for this in the previous post on PostgreSQL’s lice…

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— There should be no network connected databases of anything about anyone, in any form. Couldn't agree more. The more we know, the more susceptible we are to bias and division.

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There appears a flight of dragons without heads. Good fortune. That's literally what the I Ching calls "good fortune." Competition, when no single dragon monopolizes the sky, bring…

> Well that's the WHOLE problem of trust. Great point. It all comes down to trust. Some are masters at setting attention traps. They manipulate all these cheap metrics that normal …

Nice to know the name for this — Goodhart's Law. And I think the core reason is that the cost to fake these metrics is far less than what they claim to represent. Stars, reviews, r…

I spent the past few weeks building Duker News, an HN-style platform where every interaction is recorded on-chain and can seed DUKI (/dju:ki/,Decentralized Universal Kindness Incom…

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