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4. Index
- Category: Writing
- sitemap-preamble
- Category: Philosophy
- Accelerationism Triptych 01: Future shock fever
- Accelerationism Triptych 02: Technology is an engine of possibility
- Two fictional analogies for large language models
- The "dogshit economics" of AI according to Cory Doctorow
- Do AI images and video mean "reality is broken?"
- ChatGPT is bullshit, my philosophical commentary
- The concept of plagarism is a category error when applied to machines
- My own license for the Noosphere
- How to use a large language model ethically
- Large language models will never be able to reason reliably… but that doesn't make them not useful
- My opinion on large language models
- Capitalism innovates?
- Freeing the noosphere
- The intellectual property views of traditional artists in the age of NFTs and Generative "AI"
- Why am I being so mean to indie artists? Am I a tech bro?
- Are LLMs inherently unethical?
- Analytic philosophy argument for philosophical egoism
- On my ethical and metaethical theory
- The problem with utilitarianism
- Perspectivist epistemology is not epistemic relativism
- Weberian disenchantment is a spook
- In defense of parsimony
- Radical elitist egalitarianism
- How to do a revolution
- AI enables privacy laundering
- Empires of AI by Karen Hao thoughts
- What OpenAI should have been
- On Gary Marcus
- Why the "Left" always loses
- Posthumanism and The Death Drive
- Notes on Gender Acceleration
- An attempt to use AI as a sort of Socratic dialogue journal/notebook to get ideas out and critique myself.
- Footnotes
- Category: Programming and Software
- My attempt at explaining for laypeople how LLMs work
- Language doesn't matter. Libraries do.
- Personanet and infonet, and the Semantic Web
- A plea for simpler FP
- Why I'm obsessed with Common Lisp
- The two types of programmers
- Formal methods and dependant types are a trap
- We need to get away from "systems" languages
- Programming languages are tools for thought
- Natural language can still be good for programming
- Using agentic coding
- Agentic AI outside coding
- Limiting language expressiveness is a technical solution to a social problem (a category error)
- Structural type systems and multiple dispatch are the future of type systems
- Why I prefer Fedora Atomic (plus BlueBuild) to Nix OS
- Hand tools and workbench tools
- Stallman needs to die
- How to design software
- The beauty of Common Lisp
- What makes a good programmer
- The rise of "Whatever" Machines
- Footnotes
- Category: Life
- Aphorisms
- Better Offline with Ed Zitron
- Independence and self-sufficiency are cancer
- Cybernetics and free will
- Accelerationism Triptych 03: What the fuck does praxis even mean?
- Thoughts on meaning-making: don't force it
- Communities do exist, and they're evil
- On schooling, public and at home
- Hobbies: the secret to good living
- The point of art is the process of creating it
- Kill the author
- On being anti-social
- Intelligence
- Math's inhumanity to man: why math education sucks and something that could make it better
- Stop looking at the horrors
- How my brain works
- The left has prigs too
- Why I hate misandry in feminist spaces
- Mirrors
- Personnel File
- Category: Emacs
- Unique aspects of GNU Emacs
- Emacs as ultimate retrocomputing hobby
- Imbuing text with meaning
- Emacs Lisp really isn't bad
- Emacs and the UNIX philosophy, part 2
- Gap Buffers
- Living in the terminal vs living in Emacs
- SVG Interfaces in Emacs?
- Emacs should never become multi-threaded
- Why not to use Emacs
- Org is a general-purpose information management hypertext system for Emacs
- On the importance of using what's already in Emacs
- A creation-first interface
- Emacs should shell out
- Emacs versus Acme
- The Dao of Emacs, and my mixed feelings on Doom Emacs
- Emacs Tips
- Some capabilities of org-mode
- Footnotes
- 404
- Category: Input Devices
- Index
- articles
- Explaining LLMs to laypeople
- A Total Amateur's Guide to Ergo Keyboards
- An absolute beginner's cyberspace privacy guide for rising fascism
- UNIX, Lisp Machines, Emacs, and the Four User Freedoms
- GNOME Is Not 'Mobile-First'
- Is GNOME Actually Evil?
- Freedom and Domination: Toward a Reunification of Values
- Eternal Social War: A Theory of Social Forces
- Anarchism: Process, Not Destination
- Power and Hierarchy
- What Is A Woman?
- Justice and the Anarchic Encounter: Synthesizing Neo-Proudhonian Social Science and Egoism
- Autonomy: Our Flourishing and Power
- Democracy Won't Save You
- 'Don''t Fix Us: Transgender in the Face of Impossibility'
- Fuck the State… But Not Like That
- Theft is Good, Actually; or, Stigmergic Socialism Vs. The Welfare State
- Anarchist Conflict Resolution and Community Defense
- Summa Atheologica: Why I Am An Atheist
- Why I Identify As a Satanist
- What Is Anti-Work?
- A Fuzzy Bayesian Analysis of Deductive Argumentation
- What Is Individualist Anarchism?
- Abortion and Individualist Anarchism
- Possession Versus Absentee Property
- Cops, Vigilantes, and Protection
- Property Provisos
- A Hayekian Argument For Occupancy-and-Use
- Anarchistic Relations
- Why I Am No Longer An Anarcho-Capitalist
- Two Principles of Anarchism
- 'Synthesis Libertarianism: A Manifesto' toc: "true"
- Linguistic Pragmatism and the Incoherence of Transphobia
- The Problem With Presuppositionalism
- writing
- mirrors