shako
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the cold never bothered me anyway https://substack.com/@shakoist My original account was @cauchyfriend
"I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself."

Early adopters are feeling this
Been feeling the asymptote lately
I killed them. I killed them all. they're all dead. all 10^100 of them. and not just the shrimps but the shrimpettes and shrimplings too.
I miss my old manager. had a catch up with her and told her I'm in my 'crash out' phase following working way too hard, and i'm not doing much. and she was like 'o ya that's how you always were, seems to work for you'
Jobs won't be replaced by AI as fast as people thought they would 6 months ago IMO
As I’ve grown older I’ve spent less time reading blogs and substack and stuff. And sometimes I wonder if I’m just worse at paying attention. But I think the real thing is we all just keep blogging about the same shit. It’s a never ending cycle. Rehashing ideas from 2010-2020.
GET OUT Either move back to Canada or to Israel, they have the shitty little technocrat bullshit you want.
"What would you do if there were 10^100 shrimp and--" "But there aren't that many shrimp." "Right, but hypothetically if there were and you had to decide--" "idgi, there aren't that many shrimp tho???"
I don’t mean to pick on this specific individual as they are only an egregious example of this. But if your day-to-day ethics depends on the theoretical marginal utility of the 10^90th shrimp, something has gone wrong!!
This is correct. Not only do other functions exist that are elegant, you can even pick inelegant functions. There is no "rule" of utilitarianism that says you can't just set all shrimp utility to zero. Watch, I'm gonna do it right now: "All shrimp utility is zero" You can't…
Every time I get into a back and forth with utilitarians I have to point out that aggregation fns other than Sum exist. Consider Sum(x)/(1+Sum(x)). Math doesn't have any requirement that shrimp utility be linear in shrimp, nor have a global upper bound.
the women's curse is DYING in childbirth, which has been almost entirely solved in the US before the draft was abolished in 1973. very little of feminism since then has been about division of labor in the family dads in 2025 spend more time on childcare than moms did in 1975
I think people who watch debates online between Internet personalities are, in many ways, the stupidest people in the world.
I am not yet a type-everything-maximalist but I am a separate window maximalist.
"I use AI in a separate window. I don't enjoy Cursor or Windsurf, I can literally feel competence draining out of my fingers." @dhh, the legendary programmer and creator of Ruby on Rails has the most beautiful and philosophical idea about what AI takes away from programmers.
A long time ago when I was first learning to code, it wasn’t until I studied lisp that I understood for loops are recursive. I realize it’s a trivial observation, but it wasn’t for me back then!