Emanuel Rylke

Evolution can only jump over small fitness valleys, we can walk through deep and wide fitness chasm because we can make out the hills on the other side. Our tools should support this.

If we cannot represent these broken intermediate steps we are limited to what we can keep in our heads.

Improvement rarely happens in one step but mostly through a series of intermediate steps each of which is dysfunctional while still informing us about the shape of the artifact after the improvement process converged again on a functional result.

All creative work from simple clay brick masonry to composing a symphony relies on feedback from the unfinished work to inform further progress. Whenever a tool prevents us from representing and playing with an in-progress state we're forced to rely on mental simulation.

Another thought: static typing prevents programs which are broken in a certain way from being run but sometimes you want to run a program you know is broken to observe the parts of it you believe aren't.

The funny thing is I subconsciously was already using it like that all the while wishing for an editor which would prevent me from doing it.

A program like "console.log(foo, bar" is quite useless since it has a syntax error. I used to think editors should be structural so that such errors would be impossible, but actually it's a sort of mini TODO comment and helpful in reducing cognitive load.

This makes feel beter about not feeling like I understand Pythagoras theorem because I got used to it fast enough.https://twitter.com/MuhammadPuter12/status/1024651601481412609 …

We should then see the composition of the workforce shift upwards, increasing both the share of people capabele of inventing labor saving technologies as well as the need for them. *cough* industrial revolution *cough*.

In "God made men, Samuel Colt made them equal" we encounter the idea that firearms reduced the inequality in the capacity for violence. Therfore for the average joe the comparative advantage shifted towards a military occupation while for the elite it shifted away.

Labeling as taking out a semantic loan.

I guess return rate can be faked too but it's costlier than faking reviews.

Prediction market for the return rate of each product on Amazon.

People who are into stem because their brain works that way, people who are into stem because they seek the appearant safety of objective truth and stem comes closest to it. (I'm the later)

Whenever we put a mark somewhere or put a label on a thing we use the territory as a map.

When you're posting a cute kitten to r/aww nobody knows that you're a nazi or a communist. The internet is an engine of ideological intermingling, just not of conscious ideological intermingling.

First time I almost fell for a phishing mail.