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kavi.bsky.social
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@kavi.bsky.social
PhD student posting about politics while I wait for experiments to run.

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Developer and operator of urbanstats.org

📍 Cambridge Mass
But like there's a reason "do you want to be right or do you want X" is a common trope. Becoming obsessed over how vindicated you are will bias your perspective
January 10, 2026 at 4:47 PM
The thing is like, this isn't analysis. It's working backwards from being smug about being right, and exaggerating how right you are to make yourself more smug. It's a common condition among reasonable people (who want to be right, and therefore like being right)
January 10, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Something that leads to outcomes you expect when you act assuming it is true
January 10, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Look I get it but like I think it really needs to be way more robust to one member going rogue. Europe needs to unify to provide a counterbalance
January 10, 2026 at 1:50 PM
In Spanish yes, in English degendering gendered words to the male form is usually acceptable (eg actor for actor/actress)
January 10, 2026 at 10:57 AM
They will also mock you if you call it chai tea, but it's in Bengali so you don't know what they're saying
January 10, 2026 at 7:47 AM
It doesn't take an hour to make, it's literally out of a tanker. The service is simply that bad
January 10, 2026 at 7:46 AM
Wow I can't believe he only supports cis lesbians 😕
January 10, 2026 at 7:43 AM
🥚❓🧐
January 10, 2026 at 7:42 AM
The police have a saying about 12 vs 6
January 10, 2026 at 7:25 AM
From a bayesian perspective, the purpose of uncertainty is to distinguish situations where you lack knowledge from ones where you have it! I don't understand a philosophy that disagrees tbh
January 10, 2026 at 5:44 AM
"How much certainty should we have that 2+2 is 4?" Feels like a question a lot of thought terminating cliches around this run into
January 10, 2026 at 3:44 AM
Maybe they can talk to party leadership and get them to stop dodging the question on whether they will abolish ICE
January 9, 2026 at 8:35 PM
? What happened to your good working relationship with ICE? You were best friends just months ago?
January 9, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Do you think they shouldn't do something about it?
January 9, 2026 at 8:26 PM