Journal — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho

This actually isn’t that complicated; stop letting people lie to you.Assumed audience: People familiar with and potentially open to (as I am committed to) a Christian view of ethics, informed heavily by the virtue ethics tradition in particular. Many technology-enthused nerds often offer as a truism the idea that you have to have familiarity with a given technology to be able to judge it rightly. This is nonsense. Do you have to try cocaine to judge whether it is good for you? Do you have to…

I did it, and I did it fast! Assumed audience: People interested in endurance running (or endurance sports more generally), or who just like to hear what I am up to as a runner. I ran the Boston Marathon yesterday! It went great! Apparently my body likes sea level and going downhill! The race went fast on multiple levels. The short version It was a blur of cheering and noise and being continually astonished at how fast I was going, the miles ticking away unbelievably quickly from the sheer…

We took a family ski trip and it provoked no little astonishment.

And a requisite aside about large language models.