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• Post #1507493

  A little unexpected good news: I spent 90 seconds looking into the thing in the news and it turns out it’s actually really good evidence of the veracity of an opinion I already had.

• Post #1507492

  [Looking at a society where decision-making power is strongly inversely correlated with exposure to the consequences of one’s decisions:] Now hang on, why are there so many bad decisions?

• Post #1507491

  Reflecting once again on how much more pleasant and illuminating online discourse would be if people simply put aside their self-regard and took the time – before commenting on anything – to sit down and learn to see everything exactly as I do.

• Post #654942

  Okay, folks. I’ve been asked by a lot of friends who aren’t following the AI discourse to sort of clarify what the main camps are arguing, how they approach the issues, etc. As a trusted observer, I’m happy to provide this orienting service. No questions or comments, please. Hope it helps!

• Post #582900

  You know when someone says something like “My therapist let me know a really interesting trick:” and then they say something that’s an obvious solution to a problem you cannot imagine having? You’ve seen a little too deeply into their worldview? This is how a lot of year-end lists come across.

• Post #582898

  I am still a novice at Rust but it’s hard to emphasize enough how non-annoying it is in general. I’m not a big PL nerd, but rarely do I think “oh, the people who put this together actually thought carefully about it” – Scheme, Postscript, HyperCard, Haskell maybe (I don’t know it well enough), and precious few others. Rust feels like a low-level language designed by people who understand and sincerely appreciate current-millennium high-level languages instead of feeling insecure about them.

• Post #260579

  Allow me to recommend the Soviet production of Sherlock Holmes on YouTube. As an index of its vibe, this is how it depicts a man who has just arrived from Canada.