On the second point specifically, that's actually much more interesting! If one values the rule of law, then you would actually want your laws to be morally aligned! Otherwise, the conflict of the law with morality _devalues_ the rule of law. Valuing rule of law does not imply only some sort of legalistic value of laws unto themselves, but of the value of a society with good laws, enforced well. This incentivizes analysis and evolution _of the law_ and, to some degree, forcing conflict to bring about those changes.

Glyphcraft - a Minecraft mod (imagine if Thaumcraft, Ars Nouveau, and Hex Casting were smashed together)

We're just in this shitty pit of despair where people are desperate. It's difficult to campaign for good when you're struggling and capital can jerk people around.

People pursue good for the sake of good at cost to themselves when times are very good or times are very, very bad.

Right now times are only merely very bad.

As an aside, I'm not happy with Discord as a platform so I'm working on my own clone with some common identity stuff but with community servers run independently. That is, there are some "federated" identity providers so community servers can agree on identity across servers, then each community server runs its own thing. The trust model is based on the community server - private channels in a community server are not E2E encrypted, you must trust the server. But DMs and DM groups are E2E encrypted and use mutual community servers as relays (with a special class of relay server for people who want to DM but don't have an actual mutual server). I'm having fun with it. Now if only I could figure out why my video has such high latency (even locally!).

Google+ had promise in that the many problems of the other platforms could be curtailed with tooling to make your social experience effectively local (not necessarily geographically).

We've seen an increase in hijacked packages installing malware. Folks generally expect well known software to be safe to install. I trust that the claude code harness is safe and I'm reviewing all of the non-trivial commands it's running. So I think my claude usage is actually safer than my AUR installs.

Granted, if you're bypassing permissions and running dangerously, then... yea, you are basically just giving a keyboard to an idiot savant with the tendency to hallucinate.

It's a very cool product but you have to let people know their messages aren't private.

We would be doing the same general loop, but fine tuning the model overnight.

I still think the current LLM architecture(s) is a very useful local maximum, but ultimately a dead end for AI.

I get by without it Go enums are an inferior representation of the same logical concepts. Sure, I can have (kind, value) and cast things for a hacky sum type for some kind enum. But Go lacks closed enums/exhaustive matching.

You can at least validate the match arms with things like type switches and marker interfaces, but they're still not exhaustive and they're terribly verbose.

And, again, I can get by without them! But I miss them because Rust-style enum representation comes up _so often_, even if you don't like the rest of Rust.

The error story is not ideal but less bad than that most of the time, as you can downcast to access extra error data. Still, harder than it needs to be.

Overall, I've grown to like using the language even despite its warts.