Thanks for reading!

hubski shares skew toward shorter posts, and LCD headlines that encourage you to already have made up your mind before you read. This is an observation, not a condemnation; it's just how link aggregators tend to work. hubski's better than most. A fun thing is to pick an article at random every day and read it, regardless of headline.

I sent a long pm to mk which he never answered cough about this a few months ago -- the idea being that the users most valuable to follow are not those who share the most but those who share the most posts that no one else shares. If you attached some coefficient to "how likely was I to see this awesome post without x's share" -- some would be super high (for instance I find myself sharing a lot of things tons of other people also share) and some would be miniscule (some people tend to share hidden gems I would've otherwise missed).

Anyway I uh yeah. Lecture's boring today. I could recommend books to read to familiarize yourself with the evolution of liberalism, of legal morality from religious morality, etc, but it's a lot to start from scratch.