Kris Nuttycombe

But, but, cracking down on fraud is pretty close to cracking down on rent-seeking, and heaven knows *that* would be socialism, right?

I think Democrats should offer voters a broadly defined anti-fraud platform. Yes, obviously, start with Trump’s influence peddling, but don’t stop there. Online fraud is massive, almost every phone call you get is a scam, and the solution has to be federal or it just won’t work.

I would also go a little further than Aaron in saying that not only did fusionism disguise un-libertarian disregard for social issues by emphasizing economic libertarianism, fusionism also distorted economic libertarianism by replacing a concern for worker power with capitalist apologetics.

My usage model is now more about context than prompting; “look at this diff I manually created, and apply its implications throughout the codebase” is a common way of working now for me.

as we collectively use a tool more, we get better at using it, and sometimes new things emerge in response to the ways that those new skills fold back into the tool itself.

this is also the story of "prompt engineering -> context engineering"

It’s also a great sub theme of Vetinari’s interactions with Moist.

“No practical definition of freedom would be completely without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.”

Such a banger of a line.

there's no underlying social choice theory. reason why you should.

Literally the second-worst possible option apart from our existing system, which holds the honor of being the worst.

That’s actually how good programming feels to me, too; it’s why I prefer FP in general and Haskell in particular. And of course I love how much Lean takes from Haskell.

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I thought though that you were expressing that systems of control were nonetheless desirable. Did I misunderstand you?

I’m genuinely curious. A person’s parentage, and the location of their birth, are two things they have *no control over.* Can you tell me why those things should cause them to be prohibited from existing in any particular place?

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

If there’s a boot, it’s going to stomp on people.

Which is to say, it doesn’t matter if systems “can’t handle it”, it’s still immoral to inhibit human movement.

Freedom of movement is a fundamental human right. The idea that where someone can exist should be governed by where they were born or who their parents were is absolutely fascist.

this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

Is There a Smart Way to Cede Power to Donald Trump?

I just want to show you something that I think might help a lot of you understand why we're all feeling so goddam depressed right now. Each of these is just a headline on the front page of the New York Times this morning.

one of the most infuriating parts of the Epstein story is over the same years that young women went to police and reported assault, and were ignored, law enforcement is pushing this idea that they need massive grants and manpower to rescue thousands of girls they say don’t even know they’re victims

The extra coffee isn’t for the kids, it’s for the parents.

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I had a great experience because I went to a magnet school until 4th grade, then we moved and getting chucked into a normal public school (where I was a year and a half ahead of all the other kids) was completely horrible, in ways that still upset me 40 years later.

There is plenty of terrible metal, and plenty of bad rap, but saying you dislike both genres entirely says to me that you don’t really understand the breadth of either of them, and have only been exposed to a little of the most played stuff, which is bad.

REM is whiny vanilla pablum.

I will hear nothing bad said about John Williamson.

But modern American country is utter trash, yeah.

Algorithmic + multi-winner districts seems most likely to approximate a fair system while still being constitutional.

You still need people who know how to wield the tools.

Pat Buchanan and Karl Rove wouldn’t be bad choices, IMO.

It’s okay to give yourself treats.

The performance makes up for the material, for me.

YouTube video by Laurie Girling Richard Thompson - Oops I Did It Again

Every time I see someone mention this song I feel obligated to post its best-ever cover version: youtu.be/V4WGsMplGxU