AutoDescriptor: Added categories via AutoDescriptor bot [taxonomy v3] There's an English turn of phrase I find odd. I see it often. A sort of fake collaboration. It involves something like "I never asked for this" or "We never asked for this" or whatever. The latest iteration came in response to...

Roshan: Wikipen Like multicellular organisms, societies form organs dedicated to function, usually out of a need to make coordination efficient. Unlike organisms, societies can usually easily survive the death of an organ so long as the function is still met elsewhere. One failure mode of societies is confusing the...

AutoDescriptor: Added categories via AutoDescriptor bot [taxonomy v3] [[The Primality Fallacies]] are a set of intentionally fallacious [[wikipedia:Snowclone|snowclone]] statements about prime numbers that parody common reasoning errors that are popular among people. They're primarily a bit by Twitter user...

AutoDescriptor: Added categories via AutoDescriptor bot [taxonomy v3] [[File:{{#setmainimage:Scan_of_Trump_Account_Letter.jpg}}|thumb]] We received a letter from the Department of the Treasury telling us that Astra might be eligible for a [[wikipedia:Trump account|Trump Account]] - a strangely Indian-like naming of...

Roshan: Wikipen Another day with more action. == Browser Use Is Hard == [[File:{{#setmainimage:Screenshot_-_browser_view.jpg}}|thumb|Obviously one must distinguish between "wait, let me do this bit" and "go ahead, I just want to watch"]] For the most part, my assistant works quite well. I tell it to get me something...

Roshan: Wikipen Lots of stuff today in the AI world. == No Need To Complain About Stack == Cloudflare released their next CLI to replace <code>wrangler</code>. It's called <code>cf</code>, and it's written in TypeScript. On Hacker News this choice of stack was disliked by enough people to be at the top of the...

Roshan: Wikipen These are things that I didn't think of but that it struck me may matter at some future time. This felt like it mattered because I read the following Twitter reply thread: {{Tweet | name = Kelsey Piper | username = KelseyTuoc | replyto = Laneless_ | text = With that said: Write down, for your own...

Roshan: Wikipen The [[Cavendish Effect]] is when a monoculture is vulnerable to debilitating disease that could lead to extinction. The [[wikipedia:Cavendish banana]] is the namesake of this idea since all Cavendish banana plants are clones, and so a disease that can affect one of them can affect them all. But this...

Roshan: Wikipen I've noticed that I fail to write down much of what I feel in the moment of using AI models and working with them. Then afterwards I can't look back and recreate my understanding of the previous state. I do have extensive KB articles written as agents do things but I cannot read those since they're...

Roshan: Wikipen [[The Whispering Earring]] is a device described in Scott Alexander's short story titled ''Clarity didn't work, trying mysterianism''. One paragraph from the story describes it well: {{Quote |text=The earring begins by only offering advice on major life decisions. However, as it gets to know a...

Roshan: Wikipen A quote that is very popular on the Internet is: {{Quote |text=Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. |source=Benjamin Franklin, ''Reply to the Governor from the Pennsylvania Assembly''<ref name="founders.archives.gov"/>...

Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:Screenshot_-_Bitwarden_Chrome_Extension.jpg}}|thumb|This used to be instantaneous. Then one day it took 5 seconds. Infuriating!]] I use [[wikipedia:Bitwarden]] for password management. As is inevitably the case with these pieces of software, they start out quite speedy and nice...