The American Communist Revolution
Translating the Russian Revolution into Americanese
Alex Zvorygin
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Did Everyone Decide “It’s Time For Communism Now”?
How does a communist revolution happen?
Baby’s First Harness Engineering
LLMs are like a very powerful but dumb horse, so for complex tasks you have to build a harness that lets it pull mindlessly in the right direction.
Doctors Love This One Trick
I am not an exercise guy. I hate exercise. And yet, I always go to the gym. I have made it very difficult for myself to ever quit going to the gym.
This post is for my homies who live in shameful torment
from the fact that they're not regular sex-havers.
Benefits of a Corrupt Political Class
There are upsides to corruption
I Really Hope There’s No End To The Software Ladder
When AI solves the current level of abstraction, we move up to the next. We've been doing this in software for decades. But is there an end to the ladder?
Human Behaviour is Habituated and Context Dependent
It's difficult to know who you are when you're habituated by the people around you to acting in certain ways. They will pull you towards being who they want you to be, imprinting their values and beliefs onto you. Notice how you’re one person with your family, another with your friends, and another with your colleagues. This is neither good nor bad, it's simply the interlocking nature of society,…
Why I Like A Good Poop Over A Restaurant Meal
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Books I Read In 2025
⭐⭐⭐ Moral Mazes — Robert Jackall — 1988 A sociologist embeds with the managers of 80s corporate America, and studies their lives and worldviews. What is their social reality? What is their day to day experience like? Futher, given that bureaucratic managerial logic is ubiqitous in our society and our lives, what does that do to us?