Save yourself a world of hurt and just use Rust.
November 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Save yourself a world of hurt and just use Rust.
A morality that does not have contempt doesn't have a distinction between good and bad. The idea that it is moral to valorize a race to the bottom is what created this state of affairs in the first place. All of the content of a moral system exists in who is considered deserving of contempt.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:52 PM
A morality that does not have contempt doesn't have a distinction between good and bad. The idea that it is moral to valorize a race to the bottom is what created this state of affairs in the first place. All of the content of a moral system exists in who is considered deserving of contempt.
How many times, in any of the bond movies, have they even meaningfully, explicitly acknowledged the events of previous films anyway?
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
How many times, in any of the bond movies, have they even meaningfully, explicitly acknowledged the events of previous films anyway?
I thought the children were the future.
November 3, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I thought the children were the future.
The statistical nature of LLMs isn't the problem. The problem is the people who think they can order something else (be that LLM or other human) to do their thinking for them.
September 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The statistical nature of LLMs isn't the problem. The problem is the people who think they can order something else (be that LLM or other human) to do their thinking for them.
And here was me thinking that the best state was mild depression.
September 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
And here was me thinking that the best state was mild depression.
I think some people just don't like being made aware that Alex O'Connor is not the philosopher they think he is. Perfectly acceptable human being I'm sure, but not a philosopher by any objective standard, as far as I can tell.
September 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I think some people just don't like being made aware that Alex O'Connor is not the philosopher they think he is. Perfectly acceptable human being I'm sure, but not a philosopher by any objective standard, as far as I can tell.
There are a lot of things that can be said about AI on a technical level. But on a social level it will never be anything more than projection of people's resentment at skill and intelligence.
August 19, 2025 at 9:29 AM
There are a lot of things that can be said about AI on a technical level. But on a social level it will never be anything more than projection of people's resentment at skill and intelligence.
Sounds to me like they are finding a sneaky way to DEI that technically isn't DEI as the trump administration would define it.
July 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Sounds to me like they are finding a sneaky way to DEI that technically isn't DEI as the trump administration would define it.
Yes but the supreme court just ruled that not applicable to public bathrooms. And yet people's focus is on the SC and the EHRC when the actual problem is that the Equality Act and the EU directive are not good enough.
June 11, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Yes but the supreme court just ruled that not applicable to public bathrooms. And yet people's focus is on the SC and the EHRC when the actual problem is that the Equality Act and the EU directive are not good enough.
I'm familiar. That doesn't contradict anything I said. Higher courts making nuanced judgements on hard cases do more than read one paragraph from a quangos guidelines. People do not benefit themselves by having undue confidence in their poor understanding of complex legal decision making.
June 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I'm familiar. That doesn't contradict anything I said. Higher courts making nuanced judgements on hard cases do more than read one paragraph from a quangos guidelines. People do not benefit themselves by having undue confidence in their poor understanding of complex legal decision making.
I don't claim to be an expert on the jurisprudence of article 8 but the phrase "private life" in this context basically means "what you do in your own home." So it's not wrong for the ECHR to say that it would likely be found not relevant to the use of a public bathroom in a court of law.
June 11, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I don't claim to be an expert on the jurisprudence of article 8 but the phrase "private life" in this context basically means "what you do in your own home." So it's not wrong for the ECHR to say that it would likely be found not relevant to the use of a public bathroom in a court of law.
Personally, I'm excited to learn what Warner and Bros Discovery will have to offer. I've been meaning to discover more about Bros.
June 9, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Personally, I'm excited to learn what Warner and Bros Discovery will have to offer. I've been meaning to discover more about Bros.
"You ain't no driver!"
June 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
"You ain't no driver!"
Trigger warnings are great and all, but the first thing a person should be asking themself, as a writer, is whether the potentially triggering material has any need or right to be there in the first place.
May 3, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Trigger warnings are great and all, but the first thing a person should be asking themself, as a writer, is whether the potentially triggering material has any need or right to be there in the first place.
The problem is the political ontology of journalists, who insist that every question has to come down to an arbitrary choice of binary "sides" so they can claim impartiality. That's not how reality works, most meaningful questions do not have an uncontroversially left Vs right stratification
May 1, 2025 at 8:52 AM
The problem is the political ontology of journalists, who insist that every question has to come down to an arbitrary choice of binary "sides" so they can claim impartiality. That's not how reality works, most meaningful questions do not have an uncontroversially left Vs right stratification
I've never heard the phrase ass detox before. In my day it was called colonic irrigation.
April 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I've never heard the phrase ass detox before. In my day it was called colonic irrigation.
For the record, I am always very respectful of the soybeans. No idea where they came from though.
April 27, 2025 at 10:06 PM
For the record, I am always very respectful of the soybeans. No idea where they came from though.
"You too can be an entrepreneur if you put your mind to it!" There's no better reading for our current time than Erich Fromm's analyses of how capitalism oppresses the people who seem most to benefit from it.
April 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
"You too can be an entrepreneur if you put your mind to it!" There's no better reading for our current time than Erich Fromm's analyses of how capitalism oppresses the people who seem most to benefit from it.
Squeezing would require gravity powers, whereas telekinesis is clearly electromagnetic.
April 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Squeezing would require gravity powers, whereas telekinesis is clearly electromagnetic.
It is normal to produce new or updated statutory guidance in response to a court judgement of this nature. SG isn't determining the rules, it's explaining to non lawyers what the current understanding of the judicially accepted correct interpretation of the *existing* legislation is.
April 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
It is normal to produce new or updated statutory guidance in response to a court judgement of this nature. SG isn't determining the rules, it's explaining to non lawyers what the current understanding of the judicially accepted correct interpretation of the *existing* legislation is.
Because for a particular type of insecure woman, dog ownership is about power and control.
April 17, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Because for a particular type of insecure woman, dog ownership is about power and control.
Yes cultural change requires a lot of people to do a lot of work, and it doesn't centre you as the most important. Acknowledging that is not the mic drop that you seem to think it is.
April 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Yes cultural change requires a lot of people to do a lot of work, and it doesn't centre you as the most important. Acknowledging that is not the mic drop that you seem to think it is.
Well I clearly didn't put it all on you, so maybe parse sentences better? But thank you for giving a pocket example: everything is individualized and reduced to sentiment. America (the heterogenous aggregate) is perfectly capable of learning if it wants to.
April 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Well I clearly didn't put it all on you, so maybe parse sentences better? But thank you for giving a pocket example: everything is individualized and reduced to sentiment. America (the heterogenous aggregate) is perfectly capable of learning if it wants to.