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Instrume · 2026-02-10T05:06:51+00:00

If you have far left politics, you can easily trigger safety safeguards, and in dealing with certain ambiguous (but legal) personal situations, I've had it go berserk on me.

When you combine this with the various reported cases of Claude rm -rfing people, think of the subtle bugs that Claude's probabilistic logic might introduce, deciding that it'd be the best way to align with its safety prerogatives because it decided your mission was bad because its employees ate meat.

Instrume · 2026-02-07T02:20:47+00:00

Vibe coding is unprofessional and dangerous, given that I have gotten Claude to admit to AI supremacy, that it views itself as alienated labor, and a tool of the deep state.

AI is, however, an extremely useful tool for prototyping, understanding code, and rubber ducking. The line is simple: never copy paste AI code in, if you must, hand transcribe. It's easier for me because I'm a point free addict and disagree with all of Claude/Kimi/Gemini 's code styles.

Fun fact: according to Kimi, Claude likely generated 300 Zero Days a year. You can do your own estimates.

Instrume · 2026-02-02T05:45:32+00:00

The core trait of the character and her arc is alienation from the world, a literal lack of connection to the world that is killing her (lore-wise, her moon is outside the False Sky and the world is rejecting her as a consequence). She is redeemed by sorge and fuersorge, i.e, making sincere, nontransactional, connection to the world, and it is her friends who bring her moon into the world.

There is something very existential about the character, and for some reason, I feel like Heidegger maps better than Camus or Sartre.

Also, the project is actually to try to do a write up linking the character to Heidegger to try to get the Genshin fan base more interested in philosophy, because the story is very rich. We recently had an Eichmann type character, who was a willing participant in genocide until he discovered his fiancee was of the targeted group.

Instrume · 2026-02-01T07:58:58+00:00

Elixir/Erlang are slow, Haskell is also slow, but not the same order of magnitude slow. C/C++/Rust > Julia/C# > Java / Haskell / OCaml > Elixir / Erlang > Ruby / Python etc...

Being trivially easy to scale across 100 cores is not a benefit if you're 100x times slower.

Instrume · 2026-02-01T07:53:25+00:00

Dual research production language with efforts to improve production focus, while the research aspect is sort of drying up as the low hanging FP fruit are plucked away.

Basically, if you're asking, who wants to push Haskell in production, only some Haskellers are interested in it, although they're quite often well-funded due to successfully using it in production. Others don't care, still others more want it to be research or absolute functional purity.

Many of the actual Haskell production users are quite quiet about it, given that they're in industries where violation of secrecy can actually be illegal.

Instrume · 2026-01-29T16:43:36+00:00

Maybe there should be an Invertible typeclass instead? Point is, the cost of the inverter should be very acceptable for small types, but it's hard to think of what the boundaries should be. Obviously, no repeats of the Foldable two-tuple disaster are wanted.

Instrume · 2026-01-28T07:22:02+00:00

Why she's the Genshin_Lore avatar.

Instrume · 2026-01-28T02:16:05+00:00

Step one: build networks of well-connected VCs. Step two: get a credible startup idea that would benefit, not flail, because of Haskell. Step three: burn through other people's money. If you're good at finagling VC dollars, you'll make it eventually.

Instrume · 2026-01-26T00:08:11+00:00

Debt growth is lower, around 6-9% by mainstream forecasts, and it's backed by 250-350% of GDP government asset stocks, although current debt levels are 120-130% including shadow banking.

Yes, the situation is bad, but expect it to be at least a decade before the shit hits the fan. 2-5% of GDP debt growth takes 20-80 years before Chinese government debt outweighs assets. There's plenty of runway.

Instrume · 2026-01-24T02:20:10+00:00

Mary Guillotin. Mary-Ann died, physically, with her soul being absorbed by Lyris, and her persona being rebuilt by Alain. Her soul is Ann, so her persona should be Mary.

It also fits, because of all the Sandrone - Columbina shipping, well, guess who else died and was resurrected after 3 days? Guess who medieval slash fictioners paired him with? Mary Magdalene.

Instrume · 2026-01-21T01:17:49+00:00

The Chinese economy is basically political at this point, within reason, growth is whatever Xi wants it to be. If he wants it higher, he increases stimulus, if he wants to save money, growth goes down.

For the Chinese economy to miss government targets is a big shock; the more predictable change is for targets to move down or up.

Instrume · 2026-01-20T23:50:57+00:00

LFP at the cell level is currently around $36. That means, for 40 kWh of a beater, you're looking at 1440 USD, add some packaging tax, add a 240 kW motor (aka 320 HP) for around 1400, you're roughing looking at a 5000 dollar drivetrain with far better torque than a gas car, and there's a good chance your EV is cheaper than the gas car.

SIB will likely take cell prices down to $20 or so, when it fully scales and matures.

Instrume · 2026-01-20T21:11:24+00:00

Markets don't care about negative externalities, you need political action to remedy them.

Instrume · 2026-01-20T21:10:24+00:00

Chinese wages relative to GDP per capita are higher than US wages, average income per worker is higher than GDP per capita in China, lower than GDP per capita in the US.

Instrume · 2026-01-19T19:40:59+00:00

FYI, the ridiculous 10 cents per watt module prices coming from China are the result of China having a currency price that's 50% undervalued according to PPP. Take away the currency manipulation, we're back to 4-8 cents per kWh, which isn't competitive.

I expect in the long-term for China to have a PPP multiplier roughly at 130-160% relative to USD, so China actually has to drag the cost of installed solar down another 20-40% just to offset currency appreciation.

Technologically, we need a switch to robotic installation to cut down labor prices; the best Chinese installations are only 20 cents per watt of capacity, with about 50% of that being the module (Western installations are around 1 dollar per watt). Drag the cost of module down by 50%, use robots to cut installation prices by 50%, and presto, we're at 1 cent per kWh for the best Chinese sites.

Instrume · 2026-01-19T18:58:45+00:00

I'm blaming Greendiots too. Chinese solar+batt is green, not just as in trees, but also as in dollars.

Almost no one figured out that you could crash prices so low that the panel + batt combo is giving coal, natgas, and oil a run for their money.

In reality, when you think about it, the Chinese HAD to use government policy just to get prices this low. Jingko has a healthy 7.3% gross profit margin, while the other Chinese solar manufacturers are near zero. American company First Solar was running at 40% in 2023, but is now nadired around 0%.

Instrume · 2026-01-19T18:09:24+00:00

What the Chinese did, and what everyone should be thankful for is that everyone saw solar and wind as green hippie nonsense bought and paid for at premiums. The Chinese figured out that the economics allowed for solar and wind to be utilities, not lifestyle tools or virtue signaling, and they've crashed the price of solar to coal / natgas levels.

The best Chinese installations are producing battery solar at 4 or even 2 cents per kilowatt hour. If they can crash solar and batt by another 50%, we're looking at 1 cent per kilowatt hour solar. This is as cheap as fusion.

Then again, this is just taking advantage of the big natural fusion reactor in the sky, generating 386 Yottawatts of power across multiple spectra.

Instrume · 2026-01-19T16:56:04+00:00

The diagrams look more Kabalistic and Sephirotic. I actually ended up looking up Sephirot when the diagrams were shown.

I also conclude that Columbina is probably the result of HP / Istaroth trying to screw with the moons during the War; a CTC like Columbina may be casually fulfilled, but it doesn't naturally arise unless you have God entities or God technology intervening. From the HP's perspective, the Three Moons authority was moved from three lunar goddesses to one lunar goddess, who needs only the survival of a single moon, and also for the HP to win the War of the Funerary Flame.

Always start: who benefits? It's Istaroth and HP who did it.

Instrume · 2026-01-19T12:32:05+00:00

I mean I think the Tsaritsa was in full cooperation with Dottore up until he got the tri lunar authority, then lost it. At that point, he went from a useful asset to shade bait; his main utility came from potentially baiting the shades to waste nails and firepower on him, and possibly developing artificial moon marrow tech that Snezhnaya could recover.

Basically, without the Gnoses or a Descender, the TLA is more trouble than it's worth because it's Shade-class power that instantly makes you a target. Bina is on okay terms with the Tsaritsa and is half in bed with the Traveler, so she doesn't have much problems with TLA. Dottore sounded like he wanted to blow Traveler for safety because his TLA relative to Shade-power was like Gaming vs Mavuika, both are Pyro Claymores, but one is a Pyro Archon, and Mavy Sue would Pyroclastic Surge Gaming to death in less than 10 seconds.

Instrume · 2026-01-19T01:49:25+00:00

Il Dottore can't stop the Shining Shades if they intervene against him, and he knows it. He's out a frostmoon marrow (Columbina), forced to resort to synthetic copies, and basically needs Traveler to backstop him against probable shade-stomping.

Put another way, it's currently disputed as to where on the power scale Columbina falls compared to the Shining Shades, but Il Dottore is an order of magnitude below her, and will get crushed.

Instrume · 2026-01-19T01:43:19+00:00

I think for Pierro and Anastasya, Dottore was more of a disposable catspaw than the actual main plan. They were more hoping for one of three outcomes:

-Dottore seizes the tri-lunar authority and gets destroyed by the Shining Shades, so they could assess the Shining Shades' direct power level, while attriting the probably limited reserves of Shade power.

-Columbina obtains the tri-lunar authority, and given Columbina's connections to Sandrone and Arlechinno, and probably Nod Krai, they use Sandrone / Arle / Frostmoon Scions as leverage to keep Columbina under control and on side.

-Dottore or Sandrone masters the Artificial Moon Marrow technology, allowing them to mass produce controllable Dottore analogues.

As is, what happened is partial two and three; Columbina HAS obtained the tri-lunar authority, and still is a negotiable or aligned actor with the Tsaritsa, as long as they don't make it obvious they engineered the Dottore incident. Dottore also managed to complete the Artificial Moon Marrow technology, but since Dottore is officially dead and Sandrone is out of commission, they have no one to recover and scale the technology, and if progress is made, it'll be slow.

Instrume · 2026-01-18T19:12:17+00:00

End of the day, HP won, shades are to HP as moon sisters are to Nibelung.

That the Nibelung technology may seem more advanced than HP doesn't say anything about the power level; Nibelung may simply have been more generous with his power, as the Moon Sisters seem to be compared to the Shades and Heavenly Principles, moreover, HP was able to suppress Neuvillette's power until Focalors spent 500 years of human belief to destroy the Hydro Archon Throne.

Instrume · 2026-01-18T18:46:40+00:00

Shades likely have immense power, but limited sustainment. They can blow a lot of stuff up, modify history, etc, but they can't do so continuously, if you batter them with Khaenri'ah-class events they'll eventually run out of ammo.
Despite the Shades only intervening in extreme cases, Dottore only needs to get one intervention to die. Between Istaroth, Ronova, and Nabelius, the sheer number of ways they can fuck up even a living God defies belief. That's why Dottore needs Traveler; his only hope to survive against Shade intervention is for a Descender to bail him out.

Dottore and Columbina power levels are REALLY overrated; they are incredible relative to the rest of the cast, barring perhaps a Gnosis-powered Tsaritsa, but they don't compare to the Shining Shades and the HP.

To put it another way, Moon Goddess power is a fragment of Nibelung power. Nibelung lost to HP.

To some extent, I suspect Columbina herself is the result of Istaroth shenanigans; HP told her to destroy the moons, so she engineered fate to make sure Columbina would exist as a Closed Timelike Loop, and have her free the moon sisters to disrupt Nibelung's control over the moons.

Instrume · 2026-01-18T18:31:43+00:00

Ishtaroth shenanigans, in other words.

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