The Problems with Utilitarianism
I originally wrote this essay in 2014 or 2015 in a Chinese buffet in Athens, Georgia. I’ve changed some of it and am re-adding it here. I talk about the issues with Utilitarianism and a bad book by Sam Harris.
At a dumb intuitive level, the “ethical” idea of Utilitarianism in principle gets pretty close to what most people reflexively want from social-political affairs: the greatest good for the greatest number of people—who … ⌘ Read more
Pinboard describes itself as “Social bookmarking for introverts”. Maybe txtxt is social networking for introverts.
2x3: {lives in social/physical reality}×{views things generally as positive/zero/negative sum}. To be honest, I think there’s relatively few people in social positive sum reality frames.
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I think I’m done trying to be social on twtxt. This is too hard. Enjoy my read-only feed?
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@prologic @darch Thank you for making twt.social etc:) I don’t think I have been this involed in a open source project before.
“is socially constructed” is socially constructed
On the blog: The Parler Problem https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/01/17/social-media.html #socialmedia
Signaling/countersignaling are nuclear weapons for nerdy thinking: they explain 99% of social behavior in an easy, slightly demeaning way.
Western culture has a very unhealthy attitude towards sleep in general. There is only one socially accepted sleep pattern: Eight hours a night, in one block, starting at between 10pm and 11pm and ending between 6am and 7am. This “early-bird” rhythm is celebrated in to the point of fetishisation and held up as the goal to which all productive adults must aspire. To behave otherwise is to be lazy, slothful, and not putting forward your all It’s Time to Stop Nap-Shaming | Hacker News
A live-updating postfix shell for the Mu computer: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/105108305362341204
Defining functions in my live-updating structured editor for postfix: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/105071402581806586
En ce qui concerne les matières sociales, j’ai constaté que le fédéral est bien plus déconnecté des réalités de terrain que les régions, c’est comme si le fédéral découvrait la crise sociale. ⌘
interesting read : How democracies can claim back power in the digital world ⌘ https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/29/1009088/democracies-power-digital-social-media-governance-tech-companies-opinion/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
detective story of the day: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104975077519600207
Twt.social Hacktober 2020 ⌘ https://www.prologic.blog/2020/10/04/twtsocial-hacktober.html
Visualizing postfix functions with named arguments: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104935713813872559
We still need to unlock the web by @benwerd@benwerd ⌘ https://werd.io/2020/we-still-need-to-unlock-the-web
New demo, a structured editor for postfix arithmetic: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104896128141863951
@hjertnes@hjertnes.social There was. New watches and non-pro iPads.
Growing a test-driven text-mode Markdown browser all the way up from machine code: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104845344081779025
Why an open, decentralised social media network like Twtxt and Twt.social matter ⌘ https://www.prologic.blog/2020/09/10/why-an-open.html
dokieli - dokieli is a clientside editor for decentralised article publishing, annotations and social interactions. ⌘ https://dokie.li/
ANN: Twt.social is now live! Join the new self-hosted, decentralised privacy focused social media network! ⌘ https://www.prologic.blog/2020/08/15/ann-twtsocial-is.html
@hjertnes@hjertnes.social What are you doing to have wikilinks in Hugo?
@hjertnes@hjertnes.social is there anything else than death metal? 🧐
Basically all current social media ends up optimizing for creating outrage, spawning mobs, less thoughtful discussion and more vitriolic arguments, etc. PG: The biggest source of stress for me at YC was running HN | Hacker News
@hjertnes@hjertnes.social rebel.
@hjertnes@hjertnes.social are you using emacs as twtxt client or something? does it render the org markup for you into links?
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The social status of computer scientists is zero. Why do so few people major in computer science? (2017) | Hacker News
A tutorial on Mu the language: https://mastodon.social/web/statuses/104385065026974197
the Stainless Steel law: “the better designed the impact assessment of a social program, the more likely is the resulting estimate of net impact to be zero.” The Iron Law Of Evaluation And Other Metallic Rules · Gwern.net
The Iron law: “The expected value of any net impact assessment of any large scale social program is zero” The Iron Law Of Evaluation And Other Metallic Rules · Gwern.net
@hjertnes@hjertnes.social I always thought hg was better than git but no one else used it
Mu now type-checking all function calls: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104366226332745069
A calculator app in Mu: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104352495147108886
A very-high-level language feature in Mu, in spite of bootstrapping from machine code: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104305128661766343
A test app in Mu, and an experience report: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104250249472942612
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