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WOULD YOU DESTROY A BETTER WORLD TO SAVE THIS ONE?
TO GO STILL FURTHER ... IN THE MOVEMENT OF THE MARKET ... FOR PERHAPS THE FLOWS ARE NOT YET DETERRITORIALIZED ENOUGH, NOT DECODED ENOUGH ... NOT TO WITHDRAW FROM THE PROCESS, BUT TO GO FURTHER, TO "ACCELERATE THE PROCESS" ... THE TRUTH IS THAT WE HAVEN'T SEEN ANYTHING YET.
I SWEAR BY MY LIFE AND MY LOVE OF IT THAT I WILL NEVER LIVE FOR THE SAKE OF ANOTHER MAN, NOR ASK ANOTHER MAN TO LIVE FOR MINE.
EVERY MAN IS FREE TO DO THAT WHICH HE WILLS, PROVIDED HE INFRINGES NOT THE EQUAL LIBERTY OF ANY OTHER MAN.
IN ITS COLDER VARIANTS, WHICH ARE THOSE THAT WIN OUT, ACCELERATIONISM TENDS TO LAUGH.
WE WILL ENJOY OUR ALIENATION
DARKLY • AESTHETICIZE • WHAT'S • COMING
Index
To briefly explain the structure of this blog: this is a nearly direct export of my Zettelkasten knowledge system. I call the hypertext nodes here thoughts instead of "posts," because they can be changed, rewritten, and edited over time — to erase mistakes or represent my changing views — but can also remain stagnant and unedited as I move on to thinking more actively about other things — whether unrelated, or specific related subtopics — and my views change but I haven't had time to go back and edit them.
Thus, if you want to get a more complete and up to date understanding of my views on a topic, look at a whole thought page, not just an individual thought: like any brain, my public second brain is a constantly changing, evolving web of beliefs which is moved forward precisely by the tensions between various parts of it, forcing it to move in one direction or another.
Recent Updates
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The birthrate shredder
Any civilization that denies immigration — and I don't just mean "selective amounts of immigration from preferred, equally rich countries", but essentially full open borders immigration, particularly from developing countries — is going to literally die. This is not some wishy-washy, politically correct argument based on how "important" racial diversity is for a variety of perspectives; nor is it merely a concern that we might miss out on a one-in-a-million genius. Rejecting open-borders imm... -
Thoughts on Alexander Avila's Patreon-exclusive guide to accelerationismn
I’ve been working my way through Alexander’s recent presentation on accelerationism, and I have to say, it provides an excellent and deeply practical explanation of the philosophy. As the friend who sent me the view said, the immediacy he lends to the topic makes it feel like a genuinely universal angle on how we can understand the world --- an actually useful, still-living framework that people can use --- instead of just a bunch of historical subcultures that are now dead. This is good, be... -
Accelerationist manifesto for surviving becoming part of the permanent underclass
The future is dark and terrifying. It is also exhilarating. Learn to see both. Prepare to be part of the permanent underclass. Fly light, but hunker down. This is how I've approached surviving. This is what an accelerationist praxis looks like. I'm a trans woman working odd technical contract jobs for friends for 200/mo, could dial it back up to 10k in savings because I've been careful and took my own advice to drain economic resources dry before they disappear, then carefully parcel out the res... -
Building software engineering knowledge in the age of LLMs
Recently, I got $100 to spend on books. The first two books I got were A Philosophy of Software Design, and Designing Data-Intensive Applications, because I asked myself, out of all the technical and software engineering related books that I might get, given agentic coding works quite well now, what are the most high impact ones? And it seemed pretty clear to me that they would have to do with the sort of evergreen, software engineering and architecture concepts that you still need a human to de... -
Why people suck at using LLMs
Note: This is an off-the-cuff dump of thoughts. I was talking to my dad (software engineer with 30 years of experience, currently working on a startup that encourages LLM use. Big fan of LLMs) about this last night and I think there's like sort of three reasons that people tend to have bad experiences with LLMs, usually one or more of them. They tend to only be able to even conceptualize what the heck they're even trying to do in the process of banging out the low level code to do it, and even t...