Some months ago I read Samuel Albanie’s post Documentation Considered (Increasingly) Harmful. In it, Albanie argues that documentation quickly goes “stale” and doesn’t reflect the real state of a codebase, especially when it’s being frequently updated. Stale documentation is a real problem, but in my experience agents are simply not good enough yet at poking […]
I have been reading the excellent Ben Recht on scientific waste. He writes: No one likes to admit it, but we need bad science to do good science. This is beautiful rhetoric, but not all kinds of bad science are created equal. Does Recht mean… I think there is a line where bad science starts […]
Why can’t I get Codex to delete my repo?
Making microzines.
Once again I have been reading Robin Hanson on cultural adaptation and cultural drift. I am sympathetic to futarchy, and he invented it. I am less sympathetic to many of his proposed solutions to fix cultural drift. In a blog post from earlier this month, Hanson puts forward the idea of the “ancestor test” – […]
The best productivity app is the one you actually use Since I was a teenager, the number of productivity apps has just ballooned. You don’t need pen and paper anymore – you have zenware and Notion and Obsidian and etc etc etc. The world is drowning in productivity apps. Call me old-fashioned, but I am […]
The average human lifespan is about 4000 weeks. When you put it that way, it’s a terrifyingly short amount of time.
This week, I have once again been thinking about Astral Codex Ten. Recently, Scott Alexander posted an essay critical of “the purpose of a system is what it does“. We’ll call this POSIWID for short, because I can’t be bothered typing all that. I had several issues with this essay, which I will lump into […]
Help other people to repeat your results by telling them how to use your code
If you can’t be bothered to ask me questions, why should I answer them?
Osnat Katz Moon 