I am giving Mastodon and social media in general another go after a while. Here is what I have noticed immediately – even after years of social media detox, my brain immediately craves for next posts. I love RSS, and… Read More »Once You Are a Junkie, Always a Junkie
If you are an engineer, have a responsibility for your actions.
Education has many advantages, but fixing disputes isn’t one of them. “But education does not—cannot—produce agreement on contested values. It cannot bridge axiom gaps. It cannot compel belief in those who smell the compulsion. It cannot cure the biases of… Read More »Education Cannot Save Us
Early retirement was always the default. “Even during the commercial efflorescence of the late Republic and Principate, no one argued that accumulation was virtuous in itself. The rich man who kept working when he could afford otium was pitiable or… Read More »Burnout is a Modern Invention
We need institutions to live. “Every day, we trust countless strangers – people who share no blood with us, whom we will never meet again, and who could easily betray that trust without anyone watching. We step into traffic assuming… Read More »Institutions are how we scale up cooperation among millions
It is about values. “The danger isn’t that modern people are optimizing toward the wrong end — pursuing status when they should pursue family, or wealth when they should pursue meaning. The danger is that optimization has become a mode… Read More »The Optimization Trap: Why the Birth Rate Can’t Be Fixed
This seems to be the problem. “They see the output and think “well the AI did it.” No. The AI executed it. I designed it. I knew what to ask for, how to decompose the problem, what patterns to use,… Read More »We Might All Be AI Engineers Now
So beware. “LLMs optimize for plausibility over correctness. In this case, plausible is about 20,000 times slower than correct.” https://x.com/KatanaLarp/status/2029928471632224486#:~:text=LLMs%20optimize%20for%20plausibility%20over%20correctness.%20In%20this%20case%2C%20plausible%20is%20about%2020%2C000%20times%20slower%20than%20correct.
Standardization matters. “The problem with Arm processors in the desktop (and laptop) space certainly isn’t one of performance – as this latest design by Arm once again shows. No, the real problem is a complete and utter lack of standardisation,… Read More »Never bet against x86
I got this feeling every time I see a document at work “polished” by AI. “First, there’s a corpse alert. Corpses are dangerous, and something that’s alive/not alive is a warning sign. Same thing with zombies.Second, imposter alert. Imposters are… Read More »The Uncanny Valley