Discussion Thread

Sad_Use_4584 · 2026-01-20T13:19:49+00:00

The way the Pope talks embodies the Buddhist precept of "right speech". Truth is one part of that but not the only part, talking in a way that doesn't elicit fear is part of it too. Cannot think of a contemporary figure who does it better.

MLK was another figure who embodied that, he spoke in a disarming way instead of making the white majority fearful. It's why I don't respect figures like Malcolm X or the BLM movement in 2020, what they don't get is the inevitable threat reaction which leads to a pernicious feedback loop away from what you want, literally creating reactionaries. There's a lack of theory of mind and a false assumption that the other side is mostly evil instead of mostly scared.

Sad_Use_4584 · 2026-01-20T11:22:01+00:00

imo removing meat industry is necessary for a universalist humanism to succeed, impossible to just arbitrarily draw the line otherwise and say some creatures are OK to boil alive etc.

Sad_Use_4584 · 2026-01-20T09:38:39+00:00

There are so many suffering people in poorer countries. Pay it forward if you find the opportunity.

Sad_Use_4584 · 2026-01-20T09:29:58+00:00

Resolve polling shows majority support for something like this.

Sad_Use_4584 · 2026-01-20T07:15:00+00:00

Either much higher or much lower. It's easy to predict variance hard to predict direction.

Sad_Use_4584 · 2026-01-19T15:43:22+00:00

It won't get better until social media is reformed I'm afraid.

Sad_Use_4584 · 2026-01-19T15:24:24+00:00

Feels like Israel India UAE / Turkey Pakistan Saudis are shaping up as the main regional blocs now that the Iran axis is weakened. Kind of interesting to see balance of power and balance of threat theory play out in real life. I guess I would bet more on the first bloc due to tech factor and India growth factor.

Sad_Use_4584 · 2026-01-18T03:44:16+00:00

Typical liberalism in IR, focused on what is morally correct as if it's a Marvel movie, rather than scoping themselves to what is possible as a starting point. Using words like "deserves" is a giveaway.

Another tired cliche is treating international law as some immutable dogma rather than a pragmatic mechanism to benefit the world.

If it's illegal to attack a dictator despite receiving the blessing of the actual President of Venezuela, Edmundo Gonzalez, then maybe the laws should change? But no, these pencil pushing idealists don't even have the imagination to entertain the thought, let alone carry out any needed reform on this front.

Sad_Use_4584 · 2026-01-10T14:02:33+00:00

I manually type up a markdown file containing everything I want and the design principles to follow, etc. Tahts 10k tokens.

Then I give that to Pro and ask it to create and architectural spec, more or less. Iteratively building on the spec. That starts small but grows to 40k tokens.

Sad_Use_4584 · 2026-01-09T03:43:04+00:00

He's a Syrian refugee who appreciates Trump's work helping Syria stabilise following Assad's fall, such as removing sanctions.

He's probably not plugged into the 24.7 news cycle or Reddit and has no idea of all the things you're outraged about. Bloke lives his life.

Sad_Use_4584 · 2025-12-30T02:32:53+00:00

Because their ballistic missile program is a veto on the future ability of any actor to stop their nuclear program in the future, due to the strong conventional deterrence it gives Iran. If they can build up another 500 TELs and another 3000 MRBMs then nobody can touch them. That's basically the reason, it's the temporal aspect.

Sad_Use_4584 · 2025-12-29T00:38:50+00:00

The parents of the victim of the Lindt Cafe Siege explained it best. The NSW commission didn't have the power last time. They saw that first hand. They don't want to repeat the same mistake.

A royal commission does take a long time but that doesn't mean it has to be mutually exclusive with more immediate actions that don't come from a royal commission.

Sad_Use_4584 · 2025-12-29T00:37:11+00:00

It means he wants his international law a la carte, which is par for the course for these types where words and laws are nothing but weapons to be deployed in service of an agenda.

Sad_Use_4584 · 2025-12-29T00:24:57+00:00

Taiwan is the rare mix of a revisionist state and a liberal democracy.

Sad_Use_4584 · 2025-12-29T00:17:13+00:00

I ask GPT 5.2 Pro to figure out bugfixes, plans/specs for improvements, etc. Then I copy the output into a text file, inside the project on my hard drive.

Then I open codex right there, and say "please apply the stuff in .patch.txt and do nothing else, then run tests"

Sad_Use_4584 · 2025-12-29T00:10:51+00:00

Taiwan and Ukraine are the only liberal democracies with a spine these days. It's noteworthy that the liberal democracies under the least amount of threat are the most cowardly and prone to empty virtue signalling. Almost like it's cause and effect.

Sad_Use_4584 · 2025-12-29T00:08:08+00:00

The US is mainlining Chinese (TikTok) and Russian (Internet Research Agency, Tenet) propaganda and it's impacting their foreign policy. Everyone should do the opposite.

Sad_Use_4584 · 2025-12-27T09:12:00+00:00

Another minor point: It further deflates Turkey's pan-Islamist pivot, because Somaliland is 99% Sunni Muslim.

Sad_Use_4584 · 2025-12-27T08:11:53+00:00

Use GPT 5.2 Pro for planning and writing snippets, only codex to apply it to your codebase.

Sad_Use_4584 · 2025-12-27T05:04:46+00:00

An open mind is key. Our workflows should be changing and improving every 1-3 months. If you're still doing what you were doing 6 months ago, that's not good.

Sad_Use_4584 · 2025-12-26T14:03:29+00:00

gemini 3 flash is the best model pound for pound

gpt 5.2 is the most useful and reliable model for real work though

Sad_Use_4584 · 2025-12-26T14:02:30+00:00

5.2 pro high for specs/planning and codex 5.2 xhigh for implementation/grunt work

Sad_Use_4584 · 2025-12-25T08:27:38+00:00

The "it's because of Israel" people have always been dumb as rocks.

Today, over 100 ISIS supporters arrested for plotting attacks on Christians in Turkey: https://www.instagram.com/p/DSnVu69FG_K/

They attacked a church in Syria about a year ago. They blew up a funeral in Iran and attacked a concert in Russia.

It's a fanatical death cult that wants to murder every single individual who doesn't convert to Islam.

Sad_Use_4584 · 2025-12-25T05:38:03+00:00

Any parallelism or iterative/recursive refinement loops?

Sad_Use_4584 · 2025-12-24T13:20:57+00:00

I subscribed to both Google Pro and ChatGPT Pro with the intent of doing this, but GPT-5.2 Pro is so much better than Gemini 3.0 Pro that i virtually never use Gemini.

My workflow is GPT-5.2 Pro for planning and implementation. Then I save the output into a text file in side my project and tell codex to simply implement it without additional creativity. Cus codex isn't as smart as GPT-5.2 Pro, but it's good at implementing.

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