> the boundary between "I like this" and "I've seen enough people liking this that I now think I like this" gets blurry

Burning Man has a lot of things I’ve never seen before that I wind up liking without anyone else’s validation

Most of that experience is still different than what gets posted online about that experience

If you’re looking for what this article is talking about, it’s there

Yeah I agree that direct experience is definitely a pretty good counterweight. You can definitely discover something completely on your own and genuinely like it, without ever seeing anyone else validate it.

But yeah I wasn't stressing much on this specific idea/notion in my post though.

the onchain version of polymarket seems better in this regard, but they should really address the UMA oracle gang and have some kind of appointment process for separate oracle systems

so both polymarket onchain and polymarket us have major issues, but separate issues

Hi, September 2026, meet September 2025

it's our Eternal September, s/usenet/usebot/

taking the Apple strategy with the Apple ecosystem, genius

doesn’t this affirm an existing ruling in a different appeals circuit or the Supreme Court?

so then what I’m really interested in are benchmarks of OSS models vs closed source frontier models, using Claude Code as a harness

Our entire world is about reducing the friction of conducting a transaction

How to fix the lack of trust which is needed to conduct a transaction

Contracts affix a moment of trust in time, so even when trust is lost between parties the contract has guardrails for behavior and consequences for acting outside those rails

There are many transactions that are completely inaccessible to most people because the need for a contract or lawyer is too high

LLM use allows for those inaccessible transactions to decrease, and get people further along to the point where a lawyer is accessible as well, and economically viable to use