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The flood of effective altruists into the firm was worrisome. These people arrived with their own value system. They had their own deep loyalties to something other than Jane Street. They didn’t have the usual Wall Street person’s relationship to money; they didn’t care about their bonuses in the ways Wall Street people were supposed to care. Sam B

Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

a subject of active development is how systems like Polis and Community Notes could be extended with modern graph theory and GFMs.

Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy

Tajfel découvrit que ses sujets affichaient une nette préférence pour les membres de leur propre groupe, refusant d’adopter une stratégie de distribution égalitaire, et récompensant de manière disproportionnée ceux à qui ils s’identifiaient désormais. D’autres chercheurs ont réparti des individus dans différents groupes selon des stratégies encore

Jordan B. Peterson • 12 règles pour une vie (French Edition)

As a libertarian who holds the New Testament as a seminal text, Thiel seeks to increase individual freedoms while preventing runaway Mimetic violence.

David Perell • Peter Thiel’s Religion

“The Evolution of Altruistic Behavior.”

James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

when the going gets tough, Americans build new civic institutions .

Eli Pariser • 🏘️ 🌐 Your town’s online group matters more than you think

you could afford to have only a few high-obligation friendships, but you could have many more low-obligation ones.

Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships

In a presentation first given in 2019, Balaji described the potential for a pseudonymous economy – populated by persistent, non-real names that can accrue reputation, or as he terms it, “social wealth.” Fundamentally, he argues that pseudonymity will give individuals the ability to protect their social wealth, which is today vulnerable to canceling... See more

Sarah Guo • When we design our identities from scratch

High-quality access to information : social technologies that help people form high-quality opinions about important topics in an adversarial environment. I personally am bullish on prediction markets and Community Notes; you may have a different take on the solutions, but the point is that this topic is important.