CJ Quines

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• Is dying a transformative experience? – Ken Chung1 savers
• Transformative Experience (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)1 savers
• Kids or No kids — LessWrong1 savers
• Sudden Sight, After a Lifetime of Blindness | The New Yorker1 savers
• theory from 20,000 leagues under the sea - by Laura Cui1 savers
• Thought as a Technology2 savers
• Speaking for the Dad - Daystar Eld6 savers
• Atari video game burial2 savers
• An app can be a home-cooked meal27 savers
• Typotheque: The Weight of Chinese Characters: Designing an Ultra-Bold Typeface1 savers
• In The Meantime – Bug Hunter1 savers
• How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter2 savers
• Deep-Fried Data1 savers
• How to write it like you told it • Buttondown1 savers
• Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again? | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings4 savers
• 👂 Features that Shouldn't Exist: Live Rewind and Siri Recap • VioletPixel2 savers
• Chandler From Friends - by jen - Untitled Document2 savers
• Trans People Are Who They Say They Are — Ryan C’s MTG2 savers
• AI is removing the middle class of software engineering9 savers
• Modesty and Humility (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)1 savers
• Adding Floating-Point Decimals for Fun and Profit1 savers
• Pushing the Limits | Purity of Heart | ebook on dhammatalks.org1 savers
• Moral Disagreement (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)1 savers
• Philosophy of Technology (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)3 savers
• The AI Hater's Manifesto1 savers
• Talkin’ ’bout my (5th) Generation // rhizomatica1 savers
• Report – AI and Education3 savers
• Fired From the White House for Being Trans - The Atlantic1 savers
• People Sorters – The New Inquiry1 savers
• The politics of ‘platforms’ - Tarleton Gillespie, 20101 savers
• Justice for “Data Janitors” - Public Books1 savers
• Engineering a Principle: 'End-to-End' in the Design of the Internet1 savers
• What sort of maths are LLMs good at? | Gowers's Weblog2 savers
• Paul Kwilecki: The Only Home He Ever Knew — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER1 savers
• Reaping without sowing – Tobias J. Osborne's research notes1 savers
• Canada is fake | The Outline4 savers
• Thoughts about the Leiden Declaration | Gowers's Weblog2 savers
• LLM-gen-AI - Software Freedom Conservancy1 savers
• Debating the role of large language models in the kernel community [LWN.net]1 savers
• Acceptance | Meditations5 | ebook on dhammatalks.org1 savers
• Shame & Acceptance | Meditations5 | ebook on dhammatalks.org1 savers
• AI Engineering, Latte, and the MTA - by setizia - setiz ai1 savers
• AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making — Ludicity2 savers
• So you want to go to graduate school... – Crystal Lee3 savers
• G.R. No. 957701 savers
• you, too - alan's substack1 savers
• A beginner's guide to funemployment | Robert Heaton2 savers
• Long-Term Money · Collaborative Fund1 savers
• Blog - Sum-product, unit distances, and number fields | Erdős Problems1 savers
• TypeScript Structured Concurrency3 savers
• The Minimum Viable Unit of Saleable Software — brandur.org1 savers
• Demystifying MOBAs - A History of Speed | videogametourism.at1 savers
• Demystifying MOBAs - PLAY: The Gory Farming of Glory | videogametourism.at1 savers
• Demystifying MOBAs - A Charming Stroll Through Flatland’s Battlefield | videogametourism.at1 savers
• On clinging - Joe Carlsmith8 savers
• Witcher 3 and Diversity | Terminally Incoherent1 savers
• I Feel Horrible. She Doesn’t | The Poetry Foundation3 savers
• On happiness — Crystal Lee (she/她)1 savers
• Zig explores structured concurrency [LWN.net]1 savers
• Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity – Terrible Software2 savers
• PampaType Font Foundry | Designing Otta. <br> Or the adventure of exploring writing as a digital copyist1 savers
• Dr. Cimmerian Vs Existential Dread - SCP Foundation1 savers
• Everything we like is a psyop | TechCrunch2 savers
• SCP-8000 - SCP Foundation1 savers
• [2603.26524] Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI2 savers
• AI Is Really Weird2 savers
• "WOW! We have already revolutionized this format!" - Calvin1 savers
• Would you fly on an AI-coded plane | Hackle's blog4 savers
• A point in many triangles1 savers
• Well-Being (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)1 savers
• Action (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)1 savers
• Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Value (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)1 savers
• Anatomy of an AI System5 savers
• The Curse of Knowing How, or; Fixing Everything | Blog3 savers
• Extensible Extension Mechanisms2 savers
• The Life Goals of Dead People - by Ozy Brennan10 savers
• Counterfactuals - queuEY2 savers
• The Best Way To Save People From Suicide - The Huffington Post2 savers
• I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity18 savers
• Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to... — programming is terrible6 savers
• Obituary for a Quiet Life — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER8 savers
• Your self is not a spiritual obstacle | Vividness5 savers
• KYC and AML: beyond the acronyms3 savers
• Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)46 savers
• Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued | Kalzumeus Software35 savers
• Notes on “Taste” — Are.na33 savers
• Conviction is the Scarcest Resource: Dialogues About Conviction32 savers
• The Rationality Community Sucks28 savers
• The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements | ANU College of Science22 savers
• I Moved Back to a Second-Tier City and Finally Started Living22 savers
• No One is Really Working21 savers
• Fuck your Miracle Year - by Roger’s Bacon - Secretorum21 savers
• World-building IRL - by Joss - box.20 savers
• Omegle17 savers
• Stanford’s War on Social Life15 savers
• Do I belong in tech anymore? · Ky Decker14 savers
• Developing ethical, social, and cognitive competence | Vividness13 savers
• Peritext: A CRDT for Rich-Text Collaboration11 savers
• Internet as Practice - by Dan Hunt - Becoming Storyless11 savers
• Competence as Tragedy10 savers

highlights · 319

• He did not feel seen — and felt required to explain himself at every turn, from the first picture to the last.

  Paul Kwilecki: The Only Home He Ever Knew — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER

• the breakthrough was not a clever derivation within the existing language, it was a new language in which the derivation became short

  Reaping without sowing – Tobias J. Osborne's research notes

• that undisclosed denominator is precisely where the recipe above hides

  Reaping without sowing – Tobias J. Osborne's research notes

• Canada is three mining companies in a trench coat, wearing a stupid hat and carrying a gun.

  Canada is fake | The Outline

• The rest of the world is meant to plan itself around the U.S., rather than the other way around, and often that’s how things tend to go down anyway.

  Canada is fake | The Outline

• But I don’t see any practical way to slow them down, so the best we can do is probably to face up to the changes that are being thrust upon us and do what we can to maximize the benefits and minimize the damage.

  Thoughts about the Leiden Declaration | Gowers's Weblog

• what seems to happen is that mathematicians say, “Yes that does X but it doesn’t do Y,” and the tech companies then feel challenged to do Y

  Thoughts about the Leiden Declaration | Gowers's Weblog

• if Person A gets an LLM to one-shot a solution of an important open problem (which is formalized, possibly automatically, so there is no doubt about its correctness) but Person B makes the effort to digest the solution and explain it in a way that other mathematicians can understand and learn from, then I think we will want Person B to get the lion’s share of the credit

  Thoughts about the Leiden Declaration | Gowers's Weblog

• projects that have chosen a zero-tolerance policy should make an effort to welcome contributors who submit a contribution that includes content or who received assistance from an LLM-gen-AI system

  LLM-gen-AI - Software Freedom Conservancy

• In our discussions with the FOSS community about LLM-gen-AI, there seems to be one universal conclusion: the systems are most effective and help the most when a very experienced FOSS developer sits at the prompting helm.

  LLM-gen-AI - Software Freedom Conservancy

• flexibly and regularly (but also slowly and deliberately)

  LLM-gen-AI - Software Freedom Conservancy

• Using proprietary systems, particularly when they can forward FOSS, is a highly fact-dependent tactical decision.

  LLM-gen-AI - Software Freedom Conservancy

• Using LLMs to produce and review code is unlike Bitkeeper because it's not difficult to just stop using them. (Assuming peoples' skills haven't suffered LLM-induced atrophy --- definitely don't let that happen.)

  Debating the role of large language models in the kernel community [LWN.net]

• neither can the community pretend that the ethical issues around LLM use do not exist, at least, not without the risk of alienating the developers who do care about these things

  Debating the role of large language models in the kernel community [LWN.net]

• a tool that dramatically lowers the bar required to generate huge amounts of sniff-test passing slop is in fact, not like other tools

  Debating the role of large language models in the kernel community [LWN.net]

• Compilers cannot be taken away from us; massive, data-center-based LLMs can.

  Debating the role of large language models in the kernel community [LWN.net]

• Remember, each of your selves is the result of an activity aimed at happiness. We “self” as a verb. We’re engaged in selfing.

  Acceptance | Meditations5 | ebook on dhammatalks.org

• After all, we all have the potential for awakening. The qualities that the Buddha developed on the night of his awakening, or leading up to his awakening, are qualities that we all have in a potential form: mindfulness and alertness; heedfulness, ardency, and resolution.

  Shame & Acceptance | Meditations5 | ebook on dhammatalks.org

• The riders get off in three stops, the AI remains.

  AI Engineering, Latte, and the MTA - by setizia - setiz ai

• If you’re being asked to review huge volumes of terrible AI code, just assume that the organisation is going to burn you out and fire you.

  AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making — Ludicity

• In an untested room, common sense like “LLMs should not be allowed to deploy code without human review” can kill your chances to make an impact before you’ve even started.

  AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making — Ludicity

• the anonymous poll, where you can ask individuals to rate their opinion of an AI project’s success chances on a scale of 1 to 10. The typical split I have observed is half of those involved rating the project at a 3/10 and others at around an 8/10

  AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making — Ludicity

• You get to choose when you work, sure. But it also means that you start feeling guilty for all the time you're not working, and when you do poorly at work, it eats away at your sense of self.

  So you want to go to graduate school... – Crystal Lee

• The State cannot make the individual speak when the soul within rebels.

  G.R. No. 95770

• And so what I am concerned with is how this country lives up to those principles. How we move towards them, and not away.

  you, too - alan's substack

• But scrutinizing purpose does make practical sense, as in Establishment Clause analysis, where an understanding of official objective emerges from readily discoverable fact, without any judicial psychoanalysis of a drafter’s heart of hearts.

  McCreary County v. ACLU of Kentucky | 545 U.S. 844 (2005) | Justia U.S. Supreme Court Center

• the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the Nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law.

  Bush v. Gore | 531 U.S. 98 (2000) | Justia U.S. Supreme Court Center

• It is emphatically the duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.

  Marbury v. Madison | 5 U.S. 137 (1803) | Justia U.S. Supreme Court Center

• Thus, the particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written Constitutions, that a law repugnant to the Constitution is void, and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument.

  Marbury v. Madison | 5 U.S. 137 (1803) | Justia U.S. Supreme Court Center

• Those, then, who controvert the principle that the Constitution is to be considered in court as a paramount law are reduced to the necessity of maintaining that courts must close their eyes on the Constitution, and see only the law.

  Marbury v. Madison | 5 U.S. 137 (1803) | Justia U.S. Supreme Court Center

• By nature, it likes to stalk birds. It lowers its head and works its tail. It can extend its spine to raise its height by at least 2 sun. Its color allows it to disappear at night. I am convinced it is superior to all other cats.

  Japan's Love-Hate Relationship With Cats

• Goldman Sachs builds an altar to Benjamin in their lobby and cuts out the heart of a junior analyst on it every Friday. They call it “Blood Sacrifice Friday.”

  AI Economics for Dummies - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

• I would be blissfully happy if I never had to talk about AI ever again. Unfortunately I am compelled to think about this because it’s fucking up computers, and I deeply love computers.

  I’m Tired Of These Useless Jackasses Making The Computer Expensive

• It has been a historically bad time to buy any computer that is not a Mac mini since about mid September.

  I’m Tired Of These Useless Jackasses Making The Computer Expensive

• Shift your focus to determining how you know whether they learned what you claim to have taught (or indeed anything at all!). That is much harder, but that is also the real objective of any educator.

  Pedagogy Recommendations

• What am I lacking? What climbing feat will set me apart and make me special? What can I drink so I don’t care that I am not special? What can I climb to make me comfortable in my own company? What can I drink to make me comfortable talking to a pretty girl? What can I climb to feel worthy of someone else’s love? What mountain is worth dying on to gain immortality? (What if he knew he was perfect all along?)

  After My Son Died Climbing, I Wrestle With ‘What If'

• The problem was that his abilities were lightyears ahead of mine.

  After My Son Died Climbing, I Wrestle With ‘What If'

• Companies doing resume screens with LLMs are inadvertently prioritizing applicants that use LLMs versus those who do not and, in particular, the applicants that just happen to use the same LLM.

  Thoughts on AI in academia - by Sasha Gusev

• you justify the time off you do take as being necessary for optimal work performance, and still feel very antsy when you do things that don’t directly increase your life-skills or earning power

  A beginner's guide to funemployment | Robert Heaton

• if we talked to his immigrant parents, I would bet they would say: that was the goal

  Long-Term Money · Collaborative Fund

• as has been pointed out many times by now, we hear much more about the successes of AI than its failures

  Blog - Sum-product, unit distances, and number fields | Erdős Problems

• the simplest solution is just to make abort signals required arguments

  TypeScript Structured Concurrency

• While LLMs have made software considerably cheaper to build, they haven’t brought it to zero.

  The Minimum Viable Unit of Saleable Software — brandur.org

• So much of the general tension in the overly-emotional tenor of the players in MOBA games seems to come from this general loss of control.

  Demystifying MOBAs - A History of Speed | videogametourism.at

• Vision is so critical, but simultaneously so banal, that in professional LoL, fans often cheer semi-ironically whenever a ward is destroyed during slow games.

  Demystifying MOBAs - A History of Speed | videogametourism.at

• APM is so important in RTS games that any semblance of creative strategic decisions are mostly nonexistent until a player reaches complete intuitive technical mastery, which only happens at or above the the Grand Master (GM) level

  Demystifying MOBAs - A History of Speed | videogametourism.at

• LoL’s most fundamental change to the DotA2 model was to create a large focus on individual responsibility by highly emphasizing the micro play of farming through last hitting minions.

  Demystifying MOBAs - PLAY: The Gory Farming of Glory | videogametourism.at

• this might not make much sense, and actually likely started as a bug, it was left in the game because the designers quite astutely recognized that it provides a very interesting mechanic

  Demystifying MOBAs - PLAY: The Gory Farming of Glory | videogametourism.at

• think about how at any second in any lane in the game competing players can be attacking each other, using multiple skills limited by health and mana, while either jungler can leap out of the bushes and gank at any point, and two waves of six minions each are in a cluster attacking each other

  Demystifying MOBAs - PLAY: The Gory Farming of Glory | videogametourism.at

• while towers have a small footprint in terms of space compared to the rest of the map, they actually define the movements that are available until the latest portions of the game

  Demystifying MOBAs - A Charming Stroll Through Flatland’s Battlefield | videogametourism.at