Monthly Archives: February 2024

I did a local weightlifting competition where I won my section by default because the other three guys got disqualified. One of them didn’t submit his paperwork on time and he was at the front desk scrambling to get it … Continue reading →

I was at the gym on Thursday and there was a young gal there exercising in her underwear, as she often does. Usually she sticks to the girl side of the gym with the cardio machines, little dumbbells, and cables. … Continue reading →

Politically minded people who want to build institutions may want to keep an eye on this. Somebody has probably written down what works in a game design forum effortpost somewhere.

Kinda unrelated but you might like this: https://blog.samaltman.com/what-i-wish-someone-had-told-me -prefc Mostly good, with some caveats. Yes. Depends. Good advice for business, bad advice for creative work. Never discount the anti-materialist tendencies of autistic men, which is where the software that matters … Continue reading →

I had a great story idea this morning. Basically the movie Equilibrium, except the clerics are the kids from battle school in Ender’s Game on puberty blockers and driving mechas (the idea being that gifted children are very trusting and … Continue reading →

[Editor’s note: The original writeup here isn’t great but I think it got clarified in the exchange with Charlie in the comments.] Tradition has been defined by internet people as “ritualized behaviors solving problems that we’ve forgotten exist”, which is … Continue reading →

I offered to receive a couple of appliances at the new place so Orius wouldn’t have to make a trip out here. From watching him handle a previous engagement with a plumber (and discussing it with him afterward), I learned … Continue reading →

Let’s do another quickie post today. It’s easy to tell very smart, >130 IQ women apart from the highish IQ cohort because they will tend to have masculinized brains and are often eccentric, possibly broken people. They will probably have … Continue reading →

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/enshittification-the-2023-word-of-the-year Some may remember that my only criticism of Jaron Lanier’s documentary “The Social Network” is that he pretended the antagonists are corporate advertisers and not state-sponsored intelligence agencies. That also applies here. Enshittification is an important concept but solutions … Continue reading →

“When confronted with a problem, you cannot immediately solve it, for otherwise, it is not a problem but a mere exercise. You must begin a process of investigation…Don’t try immediately to solve the problem, but instead think about it on … Continue reading →