I will start using this more. At home and work. “One of my children loves playing around cliffs and rocks. Initially he was very keen on promising me that he wouldn’t fall down. I explained the difference between accidents and… Read More »Hazardous States and Accidents
Institutions usually help the weakest the most. “Towns and villages turned inward (often to local strong men) to protect themselves from chaos. This isolation forced each small community to rely on its own resources and customs, most went back to… Read More »Civilization Is Not the Default. Violence Is.
Here is a pledge I gave when graduating from my alma mater “We, the graduates of engineering studies at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, ‘pledge’ that we will practice our profession as engineers in accordance with the principles… Read More »Engineering Ethic and Honor
This was like reading Slovak dissidents from before communism fell. “People get the government they deserve—this is the crux of China’s problems. Overthrowing the Communist dictatorship is only a technical issue. Though “ruling the country by law” has long been… Read More »Struggle Against the Gods – First Things
LLMs aren’t compilers. “Some argue that formal languages will become a niche skill, like assembly today—almost all software will be written with natural language and “compiled” to code by LLMs. I don’t think this analogy holds. Compilers work because they… Read More »The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Work
If people do not challeng you anymore, you are fucked. “none of that stopped him from making one of the dumbest decisions any leader has ever made, because he was arrogant, because he’d gotten away with so much for so… Read More »Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit
“Denník N Mon, Apr 13, 2026 Slováci sú takí spokojní, pritakávajú aj ďalší. Prídavné meno „spokojní“znamená v ukrajinčine aj poľštine „pokojní“– a keďže ide o podobné slová, Ukrajinci žijúci na Slovensku ho používajú v tomto význame. „Slováci nie sú takí… Read More »Ako nás vnímajú ľudia z Ukrajiny
Reading literally changes how we see the world. “Eventually, after repeated prodding, he said that while he’d never personally been to Siberia, ‘Tadzhibai-aka who died last year was there. He said that there were bears there, but he didn’t say… Read More »Reading is magic
Do we have any say in history? “The self you experience as yourself—the deliberate, choosing, narrating self—is not the primary phenomenon. It is a secondary formation, a surface effect produced by deeper processes. Your desires, your fears, your loves, your… Read More »Fate, Structure, Mimesis
And leads to strange results.