Like a really old RPG where they just plop you on the overworld to get into random battles until you find the first town

Post OT IX Cryptography

From the online supplement to their book

I think part of it is just that devotion to fomo/"skating to where the puck will be"/disruption has become more fully pervasive in tech leadership than ever before

Rationalists (or at least Yudkowsky & Soares) think that superintelligent AI would probably not be sentient

Keanu Reeves IS ChatGPT

Yeah I've thought of it as a lawyer for hire or something, it will aggressively prosecute whatever case you give it whether it's good/makes sense or not.

Reorganizing my entire life around avoiding ever seeing a definition of "frisson" in either English or French so I can keep on enjoying not being quite sure whether I really know what it means or not

if you can figure out a way to heavenban your opponents instead

and yes with the CLI one, you can review one change at a time, and hit escape and complain at it as soon as you see something you don't like, it will course correct

GHCopilot CLI is way better than the GHCopilot agent mode in vs/vscode for some reason. Logically it seems like they could be the same thing just hosted in different UI rectangles, but afaict they are totally different things

Yeah it clearly falls under the category of rituals and those aren't real in general

Yes, doing the same thing as efficiently with less code is what "good code" means

Oh it's just very silly

This idea has been in Yudkowsky-adjacent AI safety/etc discourse for a long time, usually under the name of "wireheading". iirc they have arguments for why wireheading would be just as much of a danger as paperclip maximizing, their arguments never made sense to me however

The Great Idolatry: What is R9PRESENTATIONALism? Reflections on the Counterrevolution in the Arts

I still like open.substack.com/pub/recapitu... , besides that the content is interesting I'm impressed that he (1) has invented a new totalizing Manichean intellectual history lens - Plato-v.-Aristotle and 儒法闘争史観 having grown stale - & (2) managed to devise an acronym far more unwieldy than TESCREAL

iirc the trailer like cold opens onto him correcting the interviewer wrt the distinctions between different kinds of extinction

Yeah saw him there on the big screen before the movie when we saw The Bride

think the backlash against & decline in specifically consumer AI is interesting in itself?

Wait was the kid in White Lotus season 3 named after him

Browse code by meaning Navigate a repository using topic modeling

We can build better interfaces to language models than chat if we're willing to put in the design and engineering work. This post showcases a proof-of-concept implementation of one such interface: a semantic navigator for an arbitrary repository of files

haskellforall.com/2026/02/brow...

New blog post: "A sufficiently detailed spec is code"

I wrote this because I was tired of people claiming that the future of agentic coding is thoughtful specification work. As I show in the post, the reality devolves into slop pseudocode

haskellforall.com/2026/03/a-su...

The Great Idolatry: What is R9PRESENTATIONALism? Reflections on the Counterrevolution in the Arts

have you read this by @recapitulation.substack.com

open.substack.com/pub/recapitu...

always felt like lots of, e.g., cultural appropriation talk was always this, like it served as a kind of social capital protectionism or something

... and I end up either throwing it out or rewriting almost all of it myself and spending more time than if I'd just written it myself from the start.

It's occurred to me that maybe this just shows that I'm better at writing code and/or worse at everything else than I'd realized.

But whenever I've asked them to generate any substantial amount of code, beyond a few lines to demonstrate usage of some API I'm unfamiliar with, the results have always been terrible ...

Including everything else in software engineering around code (debugging, reviewing, reading code, brainstorming architecture, etc.) as well as discussing various questions in the humanities and sciences where I'm a dilettante.

Reading discussions online and comparing them to my own experience makes me feel crazy, because I've found today's LLMs and agents to be seemingly good at everything *except* writing code.