Хомяк-мусор

"One can produce meaning simply by playing with chance or disorder."
- Seduction

The outsides match my insides

(Stevie Nicks voice) Land back, land back

A lot of my work right now is debugging code, which lets me dissociate, like playing Tetris or something

Crying at my desk this morning as I listened to this, what an incredible story

Wonder what happened to the large family of raccoons by the pond in Golden Gate Park, I hope they're doing ok

Getting real tired of post Soviet people posturing like they’ve seen all this before

I wish when I was running I could race ghosts of myself like in mariokart

Fuck me up Ellen Ullman

We build our computers the way we build our cities—over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.

Unless the defense department steps in and creates enough demand

My least favorite grad school classmate named her kid Elon in 2016 lol

Throwing more compute at climate models is like adding more lanes to the highway…just a little more, that will fix it this time, just a little more

Ah yes, I guess this always happened on a regular basis and I just never noticed, silly me

It’s wild how easy it was to get people to accept that massive norovirus and RSV outbreaks are normal now

two vans branded DURAN drive next to each other on a highway

they’re on the hunt, they’re after you

Can’t wait until they “open” the Great Highway (make it into a park)

Self driving cars are a good litmus test for who’s doing tech criticism from a place of understanding, and who’s just using the same basic formula everywhere

Can’t relate to the people who love having packages delivered all the time, it just stresses me out to be participating in the whole maelstrom of cardboard and transportation fossil fuels

Apparently Nordhaus was one of the first economists to recognize that the climate could impact the economy at all, so props to him I guess.

I hate this thing so much

This is evidence that you should throw out your model entirely because it defies common sense.

Which leads to conclusion like this; “Those states in which the global temperature increase is particularly high are also ones in which we are on average richer in the future. This leads to the paradoxical result that there is actually a negative risk premium on high climate-change outcomes.”

It reads like a kind of conquest or flag-planting on epistemic territory that others left alone for good reason, but here comes this guy, slapping equations on everything, with a main criterion that they're simple enough to optimize.

The perfunctory humility doesn't really matter anyway, because that's not how power works. The court-astrologer economists already have the ears of anyone making decisions, so they can put out this authoritative-sounding document, superficially disavow its usefulness, and it will get used anyway.

It's like they want the prestige but not the accountability

There's so much appearance of rigor and due diligence, drawing from different fields, just to fit, like, parabola coefficients. The rigor is clearly meant to establish credibility, while they keep making throwaway statements about how the results aren't to be taken literally.

There's a constant dance between disavowing the significance of the numbers that come out of the model, and then presenting them in detail in a way that undermines that.

(Hate)reading the 2007 DICE model paper and it's a stunning document