Exploring failure modes of vibe coding
Why can’t I get Codex to delete my repo?
Category: Opinion
What Are You Waiting For?
Making microzines.
The ancestor test
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
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 […]
4000 weeks
The average human lifespan is about 4000 weeks. When you put it that way, it’s a terrifyingly short amount of time.
A system has a purpose
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 […]
Reproducibility includes documentation
Help other people to repeat your results by telling them how to use your code
No, I don’t want to join your AI-generated discussion
If you can’t be bothered to ask me questions, why should I answer them?
When all you have is a hammer, get more tools
When all you have is a hammer, everything sure does start to look like a nail. This is not a good thing. I’ve spent a lot of my life variously1) Falling in love with physics and physics fundamentalism (the idea that physics is the “building block” of our reality)2) Training to “think like a physicist”3) […]
Goals for Living People
It’s not enough to have goals for living people. It’s time to think about what those goals are.
Osnat Katz Moon 