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Jack, Shattered
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Hyper-specific Oddball, Mechanistic Killjoy. Stirr-er of Pots and Speaker of Heresies. Ancient and Justified. Allegedly Pedantic.
December 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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December 23, 2025 at 6:40 AM
It worked for Andrew Breitbart...
December 23, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Lemons->Lemonade
December 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Carl Sagan's book Demon-haunted World' is a spot-on analysis of this, but infuriating because we have to keep fighting this in every generation.
December 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
...and it's motivated misunderstanding because they are jealous of competence elsewhere.
December 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Generative models can address the GC part, but are not the only technology option. And regarding the IC, they can only really act on the well-defined part of that (e.g. the part all the SMEs agree on and is already widely implemented already.)

The remainder, the hard part, is authoring definitions.
December 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The way to frame this is Inherent Complexity vs Gratuitous Complexity. The Python programming language is popular in science because it allows mathematicians, genetic researchers, etc, to solve problems without imposing the cost of learning the Gratuitous Complexity.
December 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I am really torn between 'who is the biggest menace' and 'who is the worse person'.
December 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
You can find accounts of people expressing the same feeling as far back as we have writing. There are Greeks and Romans saying 'Obviously only the superstitious actually believe this stuff.'

Even if people leave organized religion, they just invent new nonsense like Trumpism or other cults.
December 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
"CottageCore is milennial mid-life crisis"
December 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Your top post of the year, tho...
December 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
How do you feel about the assertion that Derleth so heavily edited HPL's writing that we should consider him a co-writer?
December 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I have been using Linux since '93 or so and I can assure you it's a mixed bag, and getting much worse in certain ways.
December 14, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Jon and Arya seem to have a mental link when they both look up at the Moon at the same time. There is a circular 'Pool of the Moon Dancers' at the Sealord's palace. Cat and Arya are previously connected by water. We know Arya's dreams can reach Westeros across the sea.
December 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM