Reading the news today, various claims considered:
– [[Democracies are inherently unstable and susceptible to ruin by aggressive, skilled demagogues]]: [[Signs point to yes]]
– [[There is a latent fascist waiting to emerge in all humans]]: [[Ask again later]]
– [[The menace of Trumpism is darker now than it ever was before]]: [[Ask again later]]
– [[Britain is better off without Bristol’s monument to Colston]]: [[Without a doubt]]
Continuing the addition of [[epistemic disclosure]] to notes in my digital garden, I’ve been adding an ‘agreement vector’ to any claims that I make.
I started using the possible answers from Magic 8-Ball for this. e.g. "[[Without a doubt]]", "[[Ask again later]]", "My sources say no".
Because: a) it’s funny; b) they contain both direction and magnitude of agreement, which is handy; c) I prefer to have backlinks to a phrase rather than a number.
Less attention going to my public digital garden last few days, as I’ve been spending a bit more time tending the [[inner garden]]. I must say I feel generally more at peace from doing so.
Food is a human right, not a commodity.
Jose Luis Vivero Pol on food commons.
Decided to observe the various points in the Wheel of the Year this year. Not planning on becoming a pagan (though paganism has some decent ideas…). I just really like the reminders of the different points of the natural cycle of the year.
I’ve usually described my game theoretical strategy as [[tit for tat]], but I realise the better description is [[tit for tat with forgiveness]] as heard from [[Flancian]].
Started listing some of [[my garden circles]] – digital gardens of people in different areas that I like to read when thinking on a particular topic.
[[Bayesian analysis]]
> derives degrees of certainty which are interpreted as a measure of subjective psychological belief.