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20260126032624··on Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2011)
> How much positive evidence for guilt is necessary before we decide that some man should be put away?

The answer to this question is ZERO. We are human, after all (and the corollary is that no amount of evidence will tip the scale for someone we don't want to put away). How much positive evidence for guilt ought to be necessary for a society to remain moral/egalitarian/equitable is a different question entirely.

20260126032624··on Students using “humanizer” programs to beat accusations of cheating with AI
Because of the way regurgitation works. "You're absolutely right" primes the next tokens to treat whatever preceded that as gospel truth, leaving no room for critical approaches.
20260126032624··on Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings
This won't work when the meter is at zero due to human psychology. New visitors will say: "no one subsidized my experience (indeed I don't even know what $thing does) but <creator> wants me to subsidize $thing for others".

The whole "subsidize for other visitors" concept is weaker than "pay <creator>".

20260126032624··on Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings
Is...is that Darth Maul on the left?
20260126032624··on Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in
Hey, I just wanted to say, big fan of your work on vixra.org
20260126032624··on The Enchiridion by Epictetus
Christian thought remains diametrically opposed to Eastern philosophies, at least when it comes to religion. Rejecting desire in an attempt at eternal life is quite different from wanting to escape existence as a whole and return to non-existence.
20260126032624··on A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks
I don't "vibe code" but when I use an LLM with a game I usually branch out into several experiments which I don't have to commit to. Thus, it just makes that iteration process go faster.

Or slower, when the LLM doesn't understand what I want, which is a bigger issue when you spawn experiments from scratch (and have given limited context around what you are about to do).

20260126032624··on ChatGPT's porn rollout raises concerns over safety and ethics
> our collective intelligence

Come on, we are a race that took no less than 2,000 years (!) to realize the seat of thought lies in the brain and not in the heart, counting from when a prominent figure first hypothesized it (Alcmaeon of Croton).

20260126032624··on Things I've learned in my 10 years as an engineering manager
11. What works in one country doesn't necessarily work in another.