This. “What I’m trying to elaborate is that I don’t want the services (that I depend on) to degrade just because someone pushed AI where it didn’t belong or skipped their job in quality, security, reliability and verification.” https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/coding-is-not-solved

Having a degree does not make you smart. “Caldwell toured the country. He met the leadership and learned about their policies firsthand. But the climax of his trip was the last evening — a private audience with Pol Pot himself. Reportedly, Caldwell was “euphoric” with excitement and anticipation. Once in private, Caldwell and Pol Pot… Read More »Intellectuals are F*cking Idiots

Russians have a history of miscalculation. “The North saw this as the South drifting apart, both as a separate country and into capitalism. They didn’t want that. And now that the Americans had left, Korea was defenseless. Kim Il Sung asked Stalin for support for an invasion of the south. Stalin was hesitant, but thought:… Read More »Why Did Korea Split?

This is exactly what AI CEOs sound to me.

Information rules. “The clergy was generally educated. They knew, among other things, the local vernacular, latin, and could read. Since the commoners didn’t speak Latin anymore, they couldn’t read the Bible directly, so the clergy became gatekeepers of the relationship with God. The clergy also exclusive had access to handwritten books. They strengthened that with… Read More »Internet and Blockchain Will Kill Nation-States

Search currents matter. “And this is why sushi is the most Japanese type of food. It’s where rice meets fish: the rice from the continent, migrating from south to north through the islands, and increasing the population through rice farming in the Japanese plains; the fish from the ocean, with the nutrients moving from north… Read More »Why Is Japan So Populated Despite So Little Land?

This is crazy. “Tokyo contains 30% of Japan’s population, yet it has been the capital of Japan for less than 200 years, and had just ~60k people around 1600! Yet by 1700, it might already have been the biggest city in the world!” https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/tokyo

Just don’t watch shit you do not know the source of.

Willpower matters.

Nice explainer.

Yes they did. “despite having found literally thousands of new vulnerabilities (only a fraction of which were reported to Open Source projects, by the way), I don’t think that we’re any safer than before. That’s because finding vulnerabilities has never been the bottleneck in information security. The bottleneck isn’t even verifying a vulnerability report and… Read More »Everybody’s Lost Their Minds

Is there any truth in it? “Near the film’s climax, Penelope talks to Odysseus and finally realizes the truth—they are the Sea People. The ravaging horde destroying civilization is simply their triumphant warriors, returning home, having lost all sense of civilization or decency amidst the horrors of war.” https://nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2026/07/28/did-odysseus-cause-the-bronze-age-collapse/

Eventual consistency was too hard so we opted for immediately wrong.

Coaching matters.

Not as easy as it looks.

Why don’t we? “It would be much cheaper and healthier to drop iron in the ocean and harvest the fish than to have millions of square kilometers of pasture for animals like cows. This would allow us then to convert these pastures back to forest, capturing even more CO2 and improving land ecosystems.” https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/farm-the-ocean

Pretty does not always mean healthy. “You know why tropical waters are so transparent?Because they’re dead.” https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/tropical-waters-are-dead-and-europe-might-freeze

Why we keep trusting CEOs when their incentive is just to make more money? “I feel like Dario is torn. He wants Anthropic to have this bad boy street cred of wielders of this crazy power, yet at the same time, he wants to make it seem like they are the cautious ones, always being… Read More »dario, please!

You cannot avoid wrestling with ethics and morality, no matter the system. “The Prime Directive itself is, arguably, the most pseudo-theological law ever conceived in science fiction. A secular commandment forged in Kantian steel, backed by liberal guilt and anthropological relativism. It is also a lie. “ https://medium.com/@dominic.timothy/the-rapture-of-the-nerds-on-the-delirium-of-transhumanism-7f7736ce6784

I think this will need to change soon. “Engineers, even at big technology companies, don’t have the authority to make critical safety decisions. If an executive wants to ship self-driving software that has deadly flaws, they can just overrule any objections. Even if you take a stand and quit, the executive can just hire someone… Read More »Why the software industry needs a lot of regulation

Kill them all? “So the challenge of anti-mosquito scientists today is: How do we come up with strategies that find and kill every single individual before they develop resistance? “ https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/weapons-of-mosquito-destruction

Rivers matter. “If you think about it, the fact that Vietnam is made of two river deltas connected by a thin strip of coastal mountains makes it a very weird country” https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/how-rivers-shaped-states

Nice explainer.

They are not just bringing life. “In the last 2500 years, the Yellow River has noticeably shifted its course 26 times, dramatically shifted nine times, and has flooded over 1,600 times. These floods are highly destructive and lethal. The worst floods killed people by the millions.” https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/how-humans-wrestle-against-rivers

What we eat influences how our society works. “Crucially, this labor cannot be delayed—if you miss the planting window or harvest late, the crop is ruined. As a result, rice farmers developed reciprocal labor exchange: neighbors help each other transplant and harvest in time. The timeliness pressure meant rice villages became tightly cooperative communities to… Read More »How Bread vs Rice Molded History

King is dead. Long live the king. “Both Stephen and Matilda had children, and this was another important factor in the struggle for the crown. Had either of them been childless it would have weakened their position considerably, because even if they were victorious now they would have no clear successor, and the current situation… Read More »The Succession Crisis That Tore England Apart

Yes it does. “Software combines speed, money, complexity, abstraction, and almost unlimited freedom to change your mind. On their own, those things are perfectly manageable, but put them together and you start to get some really bizarre side-effects.” https://graybeard.ing/software-drives-people-insane

S AI teraz riešime všetko, aj to čo netreba.

This is metal.

Cool.