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From: osmarks <osmarks@mycorrhiza>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 21:43:05 +0000
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 * "Vision without unit tests is hallucination."
 * "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay liquid, but it will try both simultaneously."
 * "Any meeting that could’ve been an email could’ve been a database constraint."
-* "‘AI alignment’ is the polite term for convincing an overgrown autocomplete to want what you want instead of what you typed."
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+* "‘AI alignment’ is the polite term for convincing an overgrown autocomplete to want what you want instead of what you typed."
+* "In theory there’s no difference between theory and practice. In practice the difference is mostly legal liability."
+* "If an alien is smart enough to cross interstellar space, it’s smart enough to mute Earth on arrival."
+* "Never bring a heuristic to a proof fight."
+* "The universe let the speed of light be finite so that debugging couldn’t be done remotely."
+* "Somewhere there’s a parallel timeline where the Luddites won, and they’re complaining about loom influencers."
+* "A committee is just an asynchronous neural network whose loss function has been misplaced."
+* "The cloud is just someone else's uptime guarantee wearing too much makeup."
+* "Modern life is basically spreadsheets all the way down and vibes all the way up."
+* "Any sufficiently advanced language model is indistinguishable from a mediocre intern with an infinite caffeine budget."
+* "Always cache in haste; repent at cache invalidation."
+* "The best thing about quantum computers is that when they break you can blame it on a universe you don’t live in."
+* "Civilization is what happens while zoning boards are making other plans."
+* "If your paper needs more citations, try adding evidence."
+* "Statistics is the art of torturing data until it confesses to a misdemeanor."
+* "‘Move fast and break things’ was fun until someone broke continuity of government."
+* "Every great simulation begins as fan-fiction of reality."
+* "The safest prediction is that tomorrow will be like today, except where it matters."
+* "People don’t want flying cars; they want traffic to happen to other people at higher altitudes."
+* "Tell me your KPI and I’ll tell you who you fired."
+* "Ethical consumption under capitalism is mostly wishful recycling."
+* "If your startup pitch fits on one slide, investors assume the second slide is ‘???’."
+* "Remember: the tooltip was invented so that the documentation could finally give up."
+* "Humans evolved storytelling so their priors could reproduce."
+* "Regulation is society’s way of writing unit tests after prod is on fire."
+* "The blockchain is a slow, expensive receipt printer nobody can turn off."
+* "Every time you say ‘it scales linearly’ a throughput fairy loses a wing."
+* "Real artists ship; fake artists wait for the supply chain."
+* "Ask not for whom the pager tolls; it tolls because someone merged on Friday."
+* "The tragedy of the commons now comes with referral codes."
+* "If your model is bigger than your ego, you’re either enlightened or underfunded."
+* "Nobody wants to read your privacy policy; they want to feel it isn’t cursed."
+* "We taught machines to play Go so they’d leave chess players alone."
+* "Climate change is just Earth rage-quitting the current simulation."
+* "Dark patterns are UI’s way of admitting marketing won."
+* "Goodhart’s Law was more of a guideline until the A/B test."
+* "In a long enough timeline, every dashboard becomes a wall of red."
+* "Deep down, every spreadsheet wishes it were a database with no users."
+* "Security through obscurity works until someone is curious and unemployed."
+* "History doesn’t repeat, but it does retweet."
+* "The killer feature of paper is nobody ever asks you to rotate it to landscape mode."
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