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A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .

If you try to question the alleged wisdom of general elections, you won’t be sent to the gulag, but you are likely to get a very cold shower of dogmatic abuse.

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval Noah Harari

GPT, insofar as it is inner-aligned, is a **simulator** which can simulate agentic and non-agentic **simulacra**.

Simulators

janus

So, try? can be used a bit like UDP: if you don’t care what the return value is and you just want to make an attempt to do something, try? is for you: _ = try? string.write(toFile: somePathHere, atomically: true, encoding: String.Encoding.utf8)

Chapter 5: Errors - Pro Swift

Paul Hudson

...catch up on these, and many more highlights