check it out on soundcloud: soundcloud.com/one-happy-fell…

or some rando automatically generated music video with lyrics: https://youtu.be/wlbio_EyUUU

creating is hard, extraction is automated. take what's left in the bodies of struggling people, suck it out, convert it into option grants, so that a dev can get a shoebox SF apartment and feel like his changing the world

and he's right, he's changing it. but I wish he would stop.

"$2.7 dollars of gluttony for sale! who'll bid more!", yells out an auction bot

"a teenager with developing gambling addiction, which game with surprise mechanisms is going to drag him down? $3.1 only!"

holy mother of banger, this is gold

welcome to the other side, it's nice here

important thing to mention: i'm an outsider.

i got a good plt education as part of my undergrad, i did a very simple plt research, decided not to pursue it further. i don't write compilers for a living.

do with that knowledge what you want!

just a short post describing my ✨feelings✨ about why newcomers might bounce off PLT (it breaks my heart a little each time it happens)

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10. world is much more malleable than you think

9. stocks have value for roughly the same reasons fiat currency has value

8. incentives + selection effects + feedback loops explain a lot

7. programmers are spell-casters bound by limitations of their own design

6. some people are simply not worth your time. doesn't mean it's their fault but stop fretting about it and let it go