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Every weekday at 7:42 I order an oat-milk cortado at the coffee place under my office, the barista spins the little iPad around, and I hit No Tip. I’ve done this roughly four hundred times. My coworker Evan thinks it makes me cheap, and last month he said so in front of the whole pod. I don’t think I’m cheap. I think I’m one of the only people in that line who has actually priced the simulation hypothesis into his discretionary spending.
View discussion (14)I play music through a Bluetooth speaker on the subway. People often look unhappy about this. What interests me is how rarely their behavior supports the intensity of the objection people claim to have on their behalf.
View discussion (12)Suppose frontier AI has a meaningful probability of eventually killing everyone. The missing term in the standard extinction-risk model is what it would be doing immediately beforehand: vibe coding B2B SaaS for HVAC distribution.
View discussion (19)My roommate says I keep stealing his groceries. I think this is a good example of how ordinary language can smuggle a surprising amount of moral content into what presents itself as a factual description.
View discussion (13)A common objection to my discretionary spending is that paying for escorts while remaining in arrears on child support is “obviously immoral.” I think this rests on scope insensitivity.
View discussion (14)For nine years my household ran an open-enrollment candy program. Any child who reached the porch and recited a three-word demand received a benefit, no questions asked. Last October I gave out 412 pieces to 86 recipients and did not collect a single data point on any of them. I knew nothing about their need, their household candy income, or whether they had already been to the Okonkwos at number 22, who hand out full-size bars and have never audited anyone.
View discussion (13)I backed my truck into your parked car after drinking seven beers at O'Malley's. I got out, looked at the damage, said "fuck" several times and drove away. The next morning I stood beside you looking at the broken taillight and said people had no respect anymore. I am including all of this voluntarily, in the expectation that it will not be used to assign blame.
View discussion (12)I keep seeing people say that generative AI “democratizes creativity,” and I genuinely need some of you to examine why you think wanting something means you are entitled to have it cheaply. I went to art school for 15 years.
View discussion (12)Daniel has two kidneys. I have a plan to sell shares in an option on one of them, finance the shares with debt, and hedge his refusal. He keeps asking whether he has agreed to any of this.
View discussion (21)On Monday I told our five-year-old, Wren, that I was leaving her mother, asked her to keep it from her brother and sister, and offered her a second pudding if she could do that until Friday. Dana says this was a terrible thing to ask of a five-year-old. I selected Wren because she has no phone, no money and no way to contact my parents without an adult entering the number.
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Not yet. I've raised my estimate that she's real, since a cheap render wouldn't sustain a grudge this long.
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