Posts tagged with personal
'Don''t Fix Us: Transgender in the Face of Impossibility'
You want, if possible – and there is no more insane "if possible" – to abolish suffering. And we? It really seems that we would rather have it higher and worse than ever. Well-being as you understand it – that is no goal, that seems to us an end, a state that soon makes man ridiculous and contemptible – that makes his destruction desirable. The discipline of suffering, of great suffering – do you not know that only this Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
A kaleidoscopic whirlwind of pern
How to use a large language model ethically
- Prefer local models
- So you're not supporting the centralization, surveillance, and landlordization of the economy any further
- So you're not taking part in necessitationg the creation of more data centers which – while they don't use a total amount of water and energy that's out of line with many other things in our technological society – concentrate water and energy demands in communities in a way they can't prepare for and which hurts them
- So you're harder to subtly m
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