We aren’t the first or the last civilization. “Civilisations are material systems organised around energy. Their scale, complexity, and population reflect how much energy is available and how it is structured. When the energy available can no longer sustain that… Read More »The World Isn’t Ending. It’s Stopping Working.
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
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
Just wow.
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
Who would have tought… “The benchmarks aren’t measuring what you think they’re measuring” https://rdi.berkeley.edu/blog/trustworthy-benchmarks-cont/
And leads to strange results.
Unless you think it will solve itself.