Category: Posts

The Appeal to Humanity Fallacy

The article argues that appeals to humanity are rhetorical tricks that hide who is included and excluded, and that genuine care must be specified for each individual rather than claimed for an abstract whole.

Cloud AI Is the Worst

Argues that per-use metering destroys AI’s value by making users ration their own curiosity and experimentation, and calls for fixed-cost hardware and cheap, owned compute instead of cloud pay-per-use.

Are your voters stupid?

The article argues that if the state treats citizens as too incompetent to vote without tests, the legitimacy of elected governments collapses into either paternalism or a broken democracy.

In defense of Zoomers

Argues Zoomers are not lazy: older generations upheld a failing status quo, so the young should reject guilt, build personal capital, and demand structural change instead of harder work.

You’re Evaluating Frontier Models Wrong

Argues that businesses should prefer open models over closed APIs, weighing refusals, outages, terms-of-service changes, and data harvesting against benchmarks, and calls for self-hosting, fine-tuning, and control of runtime parameters.

Purpose of the Government

Defines a government’s proper purpose as expanding citizens’ personal possibilities, arguing that restrictions framed as being for your own good or the collective benefit are a scam and that rights should never be traded for access.