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Things like e.g. social media don't kill, you're right. They merely eat your soul and leave your body a shambling husk. Much better.

sleight*

Technopoly more relevant than ever.

Software isn't dead, thinking is dead (or dying).

It won't bring quality down, it'll just be the end of human understanding.

For now.

Yeah I mean a camera pretty precisely fits his definition of a tool. Not sure what your point is here.

It'll do it for you within the day because it's stealing from all those other projects. Eventually there'll be nothing left to steal from.

Weird romanization, wouldn't it be "suika"? There's no "ca" grapheme in common Japanese romanization systems iirc.

Yeah, some people only assign value to things in terms of money and economics. I will never understand these people.

You are the art.

I have always thought that there are two kinds of programmer, the tinker and the mathematician. The tinker likes to code operating systems and shells, the mathematician likes to code Haskell and Agda. You've updated my belief that there are a third kind, the entrepreneur, which sees programming as a means to an end and would gladly stop programming if possible.

Wait so how old is she?

Not really, no.

> Source bias is a real logical fallacy

This is irrelevant because we’re not using the source to judge the strength of an argument. Logical fallacies have only to do with the strength of a logical argument, nothing else.

To illustrate this, if I sell you some energy and you ask whether the energy comes from burning children or from a solar farm, I can’t say that it’s a logical fallacy for you to care because all energy powers your home just the same. You don’t owe any consideration to the content (energy) at all, because energy is not an argument that is subject to the source fallacy, to treat it as such is a fundamental category error.

Even to take your tack and say “We should consider the energy generated from burning children apart from its source, because we don’t want to fall prey to the source fallacy. However, the societal effects should also be taken into consideration…” shouldn’t be countenanced.