Evan Goer @evangoer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If your worldview is that you are the elect and everyone else are deranged peasants, I feel like you still need a plan for when you inevitably collide with the peasants. 0241
Evan Goer @evangoer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Here to say: we can still write *programs*. Programs that make purposeful LLM calls, even, as part of their job. We do not need to generate and execute unmonitored arbitrary Bash in a loop. We can just not do that. 010
Evan Goer @evangoer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Bay Area guys with cushy salaries might show glimmers of creativity if suitably motivated. Perhaps we should *not* endlessly loop LLMs running arbitrary Bash with no monitoring. Things of that nature. 1110
Reposted by Evan GoerSamus is Here @samusishere.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I imagine Roon et al would be a lot more motivated to make them want to not do bad things if “you personally will go to federal prison if they do bad things” was the law. 735349
Evan Goer @evangoer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It’s either from Surely You’re Joking or Genius, can’t remember which 130
Evan Goer @evangoer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026First I write down the problem. Then I think *really hard*. Then I write down the answer. 1211
Evan Goer @evangoer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“On the way we’ll be kickin’ it live / crankin NPR on the 405” m.youtube.com/watch?v=YSgV...m.youtube.comLazy MondayYouTube video by Sam Friedlander 100
Evan Goer @evangoer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Managed to convince my 83yo dad to come out to see it, on the grounds that he watched Looney Tunes as a little kid, and so did I. My teens came too, and liked it well enough, but: the chain is broken. 000
Evan Goer @evangoer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026afaict, it is the difference between taking your philosophy from thinkers who are clearly flawed, vs. gleefully and relentlessly demonic. 0122
Reposted by Evan GoerBen Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The illusion and politics of objectivity in cost-benefit analysis, a decision-making institution so ingrained that Americans can’t imagine life without it.argmin.netPricing CommensurabilityOn the origins of cost-benefit analyses in governmental decision making 2279
Evan Goer @evangoer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Maybe my memory is shot, but I would swear that the Sunnyvale Public Library had this edition forty years ago. 000
Evan Goer @evangoer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Strict liability. Felony charges for the many security crimes already committed. This isn’t hard. 010
Evan Goer @evangoer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026*slaps the roof of non-denominational liberal Judaism* this bad boy can fit so many holidays in it 010
Evan Goer @evangoer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026So dumb. I keep telling people there are so many sturdy, off-the-shelf religions out there that provide social connection and at least *some* minimal infohazard protection. 100
Evan Goer @evangoer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Remarkable how much damage a guy can do in a decade or two, if he has money and patience. 010
Reposted by Evan GoerSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 18/09/2026dario's friday letter demanding a new regulatory regime and asking for a waiver of antitrust laws so they could form a cartel was signed off on by sam, dario, elon, and something like half of all politicians. so everyone who sees this as a bid for Complete EA Takeover and has any other ideology 436039
Evan Goer @evangoer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Reminds me of _Lying for Money_ by Dan Davies, where he points out that the optimal amount of fraud in a marketplace is not zero. 090
Evan Goer @evangoer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026He should be left on a moonless June night on Omaha Beach, alone, with a pocket bible and a bowie knife. 030
Evan Goer @evangoer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Unrelated, but: the family took a vote at dinner and we have unanimously agreed to start using “That’s life in the pickle factory!” in casual conversation. 120
Evan Goer @evangoer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026You can walk and chew gum at the same time. I believe in you, Ben! 020
Evan Goer @evangoer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Wish he had done this a year and a half ago, it would have been super funny if the image actually listed five parts. 010
Evan Goer @evangoer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Also, Mrs. Goer and The Boy are on a very long quest to see all the ballparks, and Orioles are not yet checked off either. Hmmm. 110
Evan Goer @evangoer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Not a completely impossible idea — The Boy is pondering colleges, and maybe Johns Hopkins will make the short list. 110
Evan Goer @evangoer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Brb, writing a bot to scour Bluesky for AI generated AI rage bait, build a bespoke interface to classify said individual rage bait, screenshot & post. 020
Evan Goer @evangoer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026“Non-competes might be bad for you tippy-top elites over there, but I’m built different. Better, even.” 000
Evan Goer @evangoer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026The moment some other place with good weather figures out that non-competes are bad for for everyone (very much including tippy-top elites), CA is fully cooked. 110
Reposted by Evan GoerMaterialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 21/08/2026it's very simple: non-competes are bad and network effects are real 318827
Evan Goer @evangoer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Is it the hours specifically? Or because west coast insomniacs are, statistically speaking, more likely to be in the grip of AI psychosis? 010
Evan Goer @evangoer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026need a full and complete listing so that my family can pick and choose our top five please and thank you 010
Evan Goer @evangoer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026In the knowledge production system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the scientists, who make spreadsheets of things, and the developers, who make lists of curly braced things. 090
Evan Goer @evangoer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026actually wrote the word “gated” as a verb just now, FML 000
Evan Goer @evangoer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The “would you use a forklift when going to the gym” metaphor remains undefeated 040
Evan Goer @evangoer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The complete opposite of my childhood, where the song range was 2-5 years at best and all the kids hugged the walls for dear life. 120
Evan Goer @evangoer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I have attended a lot of Bar & Bat Mitzvahs the last several years. There is a clear canon of songs, ranging from the 70s to today, that all the kids know. And (remarkabl) will all happily dance to. 130
Evan Goer @evangoer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026As God is my witness: some of us are here here folding laundry, watching baseball, trying to teach our Large Teenage Sons to drive. 070
Evan Goer @evangoer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I quit literally checked the BTB feed to make sure that this Bay Area sex cult wasn’t the one they were talking about a few weeks ago. 091
Evan Goer @evangoer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026this really isn’t something to fret about tbh, as long as the safety field itself keeps doing so well 170
Reposted by Evan GoerMicah @rincewind.run · 13/08/2026now that we know how the new season of Reacher is (excellent), a thread about why you should watch What If A Man Was Large, The Show, in the form of a Q&A 531785382
Evan Goer @evangoer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026My snarky reply — and I am not making this up — got autocorrected to “ground bees“. So here we are. 020
Evan Goer @evangoer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I could buy that in your average enterprise shovelware mill, there is substantially more day drinking. 010
Evan Goer @evangoer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026AI 🤜🤛 imageboards policing their territory with repulsive jargon 010
