Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested a Billion Dollars In(mcsweeneys.net)

478 points by randycupertino 9 months ago | 211 comments

A McSweeney's humor piece by Forest Abruzzo satirizing an investor who pleads with people not to criticize the AI he invested a billion dollars in.

I'm sorry I bit you during my job interview (2011)(mcsweeneys.net)

169 points by 8b16380d 3 years ago | 99 comments

The Hofmann Wobble: Wikipedia and the problem of historical memory(harpers.org)

31 points by pepys 2 years ago | 14 comments

On the implausibility of the Death Star's trash compactor (2002)(mcsweeneys.net)

33 points by EndXA 2 years ago | 39 comments

An Interview with Shirley Hazzard(thebeliever.net)

3 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 1 comments

The Geological Sublime(harpers.org)

4 points by prismatic 1 year ago | 0 comments

We Should Be Able to Change Our Languages(jimmyhmiller.com)

48 points by surprisetalk 1 month ago | 24 comments

Jimmy Miller essay arguing programmers should be able to customize and change their programming languages rather than treat them as fixed artifacts.

My Friend Aaron(rorz.io)

562 points by sarreph 2 months ago | 152 comments

A short story by Rory McMeekin on his personal blog about a school friend, Aaron, who obsessed over things like World of Warcraft instead of studying.

I'm addicted to being useful(seangoedecke.com)

519 points by swah 9 months ago | 265 comments

Sean Goedecke's blog essay on loving his software engineering job because he is driven by being useful, drawing on Gogol's The Overcoat.

We have used too many levels of abstractions(unixsheikh.com)

674 points by riidom 3 years ago | 427 comments

An opinion essay on unixsheikh.com arguing that the software industry relies on too many layers of abstraction, leaving few people who understand how the underlying technology works.

I don't want to read what you didn't write(blog.colinbreck.com)

952 points by mooreds 1 month ago | 394 comments

Colin Breck's blog essay arguing against reading AI-generated writing such as design documents and summaries, and describing where he finds AI useful.

You can just say it(noperator.dev)

331 points by antirez 5 months ago | 172 comments

Personal blog essay by Caleb Gross arguing against valuing humans only for output quality that AI may eventually match, and for stating human value directly.