[WEEKLY DIGEST] 26.06

Each week I have a list of blog posts, news, podcasts and videos that I read, listen or watch, some of them are useful and there can be nice discussion around it. Note that information in individual link are of varied levels of confidence, it’s more likely the readers will find out more flaws in these articles than I can correcting them.

1. Viktor Lofgren on degradation of online community. the analogy of the “village” and the “train station” is somewhat accurate for communities that knows it members and communities that only acquaints them.

2. Maybe, if we can communicate with ants, we can trade with them. But we can’t, and it reminds people of the relationship between AI and us.

3. The notion that boosting metabolism leads to weight loss might not tell the whole story. Unsurprisingly, some scientists find that it actually doesn’t.

4. I don’t know Benin exists as a country until reading about Matt Lakeman’s take on it. At which point I fell down the rabbit hole of history, politics, cultures of African countries and can’t get out.

5. Remember a few weeks ago when there were some news about UFO (now rebranded as UAP). You can make a religion out of it, and people has been making religions out of it for a while now.

6. Moderation can be a challenging task as everyone who looks at the same rule can interpret it differently, this game try to demonstrate just that.

7. Mathew Guay proposed an intuitively unintuitive ideas about note apps being the graveyard of ideas, I’m guilty of this but not to the extent that the post describe it to be.

8. Scott puts forth a good model for how social media’s incentive works, and how it wouldn’t work for a normal person.

9. Some boring guy wrote a boring subject about the boring Roman and how they raise their boring army. In all seriousness, if you are interested in agri-centric culture and its administration, this is an excellent write-up for you.

10. I don’t commit financial frauds but I like to know about them. Naturally, “Lying for Money” is a book that draws my attention. A deep dive into how fraud works with its relationship with trust.