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It’s been a while, but I recall finding The Plague more compelling than The Stranger . While I agree with Camus’s philosophical points about the absurdity of existence and the indi…

I’m as uninterested in debating someone who denies the existence of fossil fuel subsidies as I am in debating climate denialists. I recommend that interested parties perform a triv…

Geoengineering proposals are often unserious because the point is to give the appearance of doing something while the root cause goes unaddressed. "No need to reconsider those foss…

Geoengineering proposals spring from the same impulse as climate denial — anything to avoid consequences for those contributing to the crisis.

When I was a child, I imagined that books and the ideas within them lasted forever. The shock is not in how quickly the written word dissipates, it's that it dissipates at all.

The current generation cannot bear the accumulated weight of all past generations. Loss and compression are inevitable. 99% of an individual's life experiences are lost when they p…

Yes, writing by hand is an experience that offers unique benefits. The physical act helps to consolidate and integrate knowledge — improving recollection is one benefit, although I…

"Write by hand and mark up your books" is excellent advice... that I no longer follow. Marking up books didn't come naturally to me, but I did it for a while. Paper books are just …

A while ago I participated in security design for an open source foundation. (Security is not a specialty of mine, but I aspire to be competent enough for my role as a developer wo…

So I went down the rabbit hole of the meaning of "champ", thinking it might mean something esoteric in the context of "champing at the bit" like "speaking the first line of the ski…

It's not the same, but I still remember the first time I was served genmai cha (roasted rice tea) at a sushi restaurant. I loved it and inquired, the server was kind enough to show…

lol wut “corporate”? I don’t get the rest of your post either.

While it will take a while to review the subtleties of this license, I appreciate that out of the gate they are marketing it as "Source Available" rather than picking a stupid figh…

Voter suppression strategy depends on statistical degradation of enfranchisement. There is a small group for whom it is literally impossible to obtain supporting documentation — th…

Should voter ID requirements (a la "SAVE America" act or similar) become law, constitutional prohibitions on poll taxes will lead towards every citizen getting an ID at no charge.

The goal should be to run up the score of the popular vote as much as possible even in the face of anti-democratic shenanigans like gerrymandering or statistical voter suppression,…

Making it hard for politically inconvenient humans to vote is more straightforward than granting AI agents the right to vote.

To secure network effects for themselves. This is one of the reasons the ASF was founded. https://httpd.apache.org/ABOUT_APACHE.html > We realize that it is often seen as an econom…

Output is a separate issue from training . Courts will never decide that a identical copy spit out by an LLM is non-infringing simply because it went through an LLM stage. Copyrigh…

License the training corpus and encourage copyright suits against outputs from models trained on unlicensed corpora.

More likely it will be taken as a plan for "how to win at any cost and then humanize yourself later".

> AI is finding vulnerabilities in all kinds of software written by humans. I'm aware — I've used LLMs to find vulnerabilities, myself. But it doesn't follow that because AI can fi…

"Make my web app secure."