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emily🤭 @em.ily.dev · 10/09/2026

it feels like being in the late 90s early 00s again! arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph...

The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations

Chris Gottbrath, Jeremy Bailin, Casey Meakin, Todd Thompson, J.J. Charfman

Steward Observatory, University of Arizona

Abstract

We show that, in the context of Moore's Law, overall productivity can be increased for large enough computations by 'slacking' or waiting for some period of time before purchasing a computer and beginning the calculation.

According to Moore's Law, the computational power available at a particular price doubles every 18 months. Therefore it is conceivable that for sufficiently large numerical calculations and fixed budgets, computing power will improve quickly enough that the calculation will finish faster if we wait until the available computing power is sufficiently better and start the calculation then.

Figure 1: work and slack in the context of moores law

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emily🤭 @em.ily.dev · 21/08/2026

the levels of bad faith argument from this guy are still climbing, no one can say what heights he may yet achieve

a post from the "spreadsheet people" guy saying, "Are you saying AI people are mostly... women? Is that what you're saying?"

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emily🤭 @em.ily.dev · 12/08/2026

it's bad on purpose to make you click

nuclear take that is obviously correct but that people will get mad at me for coming up:

everyone — consumers, publishers, writers — would wind up better off if web browser ad-blockers didn't exist and the rationalizations for using one are mostly clever justifications for what's just selfish behavior with obvious negative social consequences.

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emily🤭 @em.ily.dev · 03/08/2026

emacs, not even once

Steve Yegge
Collected work on software, programming languages, and engineering culture.
yegge.a1
The Shape of Things to Come, Part 1: The Continuous Thunderdome — Steve Yegge
Part 1: The Continuous Thunderdome. Loops and graphs, Wheelhouse and Beads, the end of human code review, the Lan...

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emily🤭 @em.ily.dev · 01/08/2026

society if css spec authors werent obsessed with dwim

it's the utopia meme image. a futuristic cityscape with sleek white/mirrored buildings, elevated transit systems, flying vehicles, green lawns and stuff. the sky is blue. theres people walking next to a reflecting pool. theres a giant shiny mirrored dome in the background. you get the idea

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emily🤭 @em.ily.dev · 01/08/2026

i wonder if people will ever collectively realize that this will not solve the problem! the "flaw" that's been discovered here is just llms acting like humans, albeit in a less sophisticated way than we typically see in organic people

Treat externally sourced documents as untrusted when using them in Copilot, he recommends, and fully review every single document before sending it to Copilot, and fully review any Copilot-generated or edited documents before distributing them.

Sheesh - if you're going to have to actually read that stuff, you might as well just cut Copilot out of the loop and do the thinking yourself.

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emily🤭 @em.ily.dev · 01/08/2026

i wonder if måløy understands that human brains all have the same vulnerability, and that it seems likely that this is a fundamental property of intelligence in general, and that his proposed solution here is likely impossible

"The long-term challenge likely lies in designing systems in which goals and intentions also exist independently of the information being processed," he said. Until that time, Måløy argues, "any system that integrates an LLM into a trusted workflow today must assume that attacker-controlled content entering the model's context will result in compromise at some rate."

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emily🤭 @em.ily.dev · 26/07/2026

"energy expenditure and quality of life are the same thing" in this clip, robert lustig is making a statement about metabolic processes in a single organism, but this is true at any scale. it's true for cells, and it's true for a planetary civilization

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emily🤭 @em.ily.dev · 23/07/2026

i,,, why would i say that to claude

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emily🤭 @em.ily.dev · 14/07/2026

this thread is mostly pretty good and i agree, but with one very big (not narrow) gap the vast majority of expertise is undocumented almost all knowledge exists exclusively inside human minds danluu.com/hardware-unf...

It didn't work. For historical and geographic reasons, Scotland's shipyards weren't full-sized; they built their ships in two halves and then assembled them. Worked fine for them, because they'd be doing it at scale since the 1800s, and had world renowned expertise by the 1900s. But when the unpracticed Koreans tried to build ships using Scottish plans and detailed step-by-step directions, the result was two ship halves that didn't quite fit together and sunk when assembled.

The Koreans eventually managed to start a shipbuilding industry by hiring foreign companies to come and build ships locally, showing people how it's done. And it took decades to get what we would consider basic manufacturing working smoothly, even though one might think that all of the requisite knowledge existed in books, was taught in university courses, and could be had from experts for a small fee. Now, their manufacturing industries are world class, e.g., according to Consumer Reports, Hyundai and Kia produce reliable cars. Going from producing unreliable econoboxes to reliable cars you can buy took over a decade, like it did for Toyota when they did it decades earlier. If there's a shortcut to quality other than hiring a lot of people who've done it before, no one's discovered it yet.

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emily🤭 @em.ily.dev · 23/05/2026

friend i am totally on board and i think you're right but also what an example lmao

professor moriarty from the fucked up holodeck program the computer made for data when geordie was a tiny bit imprecise in his request

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emily🤭 @em.ily.dev · 20/05/2026

yeah i mean that’s literally the joke

But this post is a criticism of a specific pattern of Al skepticism, which is the reverse: seeing humanness in the next frontier that is unconquered by Al. Before "delving" further, [cut off]

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emily🤭 @em.ily.dev · 13/05/2026

if you think "female" is boring i really dont know what to tell you

explain your gender in 10 words or less without using boring words like "male", "female", "nonbinary", "masculine", "feminine" or "androgynous".

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emily🤭 @em.ily.dev · 08/05/2026

yall aren’t doing yourselves any favors reading or responding to this junk

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emily🤭 @em.ily.dev · 07/05/2026

the article also implicitly assumes that ai will never outperform humans. talk about a failure of imagination! the strategy in this screenshot is called "retreating upmarket" in business, and it works as long as your new competitor can never outperform you

“Automation strips out the repetitive layer and pulls human work up the stack. The reason why is simple: humans want to expand! When one layer of scarcity falls, people move up to the next one. When food gets cheaper, we spend more on housing, health, education, travel, entertainment, convenience, pets, safety, beauty, and longevity.”

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emily🤭 @em.ily.dev · 07/05/2026

uhh,,,,,,,,,, as ai makes cognition cheaper, jevons paradox predicts there will be more demand for cognition. it does not say there will be more demand for *human* cognition! in this article screenshot, ai is fossil fuels and humans are the whalers and woodchippers www.a16z.news/p/the-ai-job...