Alephwyr

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Free will is just what we call it when a person surprises us. Aristotle had it backwards. He thought that logical determination was no threat to free will and physical determination was. But everything is physical. Free will only ever referred to an assessment of logical indeterminism caused by a limited human model.

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Every decision that can only be morally justified on a utilitarian basis is axiomatically a crime

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Finished reading the entire Wings of Fire series. It was good. I'm glad I invested the time.

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I'm not cut out for the bay. A life hack for me is like "try putting tomato on your sandwiches", not " convert your keyboard to Dvorak, use a standing desk, take all notes in a bespoke note taking app and manage even your personal time using agile"

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Here is my position on a forbidden 2x2

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DARPA is making a C to Rust auto converter called TRACTOR. Hopefully it's open sourced. I would like to switch to a Rust based Unix system for most of my computing.

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Shoutout to girls who can't touch anyone without killing them. Gotta be one of my favorite genders.

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Who needs gambling when you can just watch your expected income fluctuate in real time as the student loan situation changes.

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For EU nationals: Eci.ec.Europa.EU/045/public/#/screen/home This would mandate video game companies have a way to allow private server operators to pick up the slack for EOL online games. Very cool, and important for preservation.

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Mastadon: Professionals and intellectuals having stilted conversations Twitter: Nazi "volk" Nostr: The actual SS Bluesky: World's most generic house party Threads: HR world Farcaster: Positive thinking and hucksters

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Another weird essay by me talking about whatever I want through the lens of dragons in fiction: https://buttondown.email/Alephwyr/archive/the-worldview-of-wings-of-fire/

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If it works, it's out of date - Stafford Beer

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I finished two books tonight: Wings of Fire #12, which is about dragons, and Zero to One by Peter Thiel

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Learning that we could have lived in the timeline where Paypal killed Elon Musk with a bomb.

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The essence of beauty is legibility. That you can understand through appearance. Most of what is called beautiful is deceptive and therefore not beautiful.

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I got to the point in Pokemon Pearl where you capture God in a pokeball, and I still don't even have all the gym badges. It kind of feels pointless after that.

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Wings of Fire is good. I will have to think carefully about whether it's my new favorite dragon media.

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Wings of Fire gets really good at book four. I hope it continues getting better but I think I'm going to read the whole series now, or at least the main novels.

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https://alephwyr.substack.com/p/im-afraid-youve-got-dragons-a-brief

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