Tag: personal

Don't fix us
You want, if possible -- and there is no more insane "if possible" -- toabolish suffering. And we? It really seems that we would rather have ithigher and worse than ever. Well-being as you understand it -- that isno goal, that seems to us an end, a state that soon makes man ridiculousand contemptible -- that makes his destruction desirable. The disciplineof suffering, of great suffering -- do you not know that only this Nietzsche,Beyond Good and Evil A kaleidoscopic whirlwind of pernicious lies,...
Living in the terminal vs living in Emacs
The other environment that many tech-savvy people tend to try to live their whole lives in, that offers a coherent integration between everything and a limited but flexible set of core components, is the terminal/shell. I think I've given a fuckton of evidence on this page (and in my blog post on this) that, as a text-oriented computational environment, Emacs is infinitely superior: its component pieces are fully transparent, scriptable, malleable at run time, far better integrated, can communic...
How to use a large language model ethically
Note: There is a caveat to my point on local models, however: datacenter models are more energy and CO2 efficient than running an equivalently sized model locally. Additionally, they can run larger and much more useful proprietary models, and sometimes there's a certain threshold of capability above which it's worth the energy and time spent on a model, and below which it's completely not worth it, but not using it at all will just waste more time and energy --- after all, saving a human some ti...