So, not only is this a Dark Souls bridge, it spans over an honest-to-god bottomless pit?

Let’s not put Descartes before the horse.

Ohhh, that touched a deep well of hatred. My first engineering job was full stack and we had a highly modified Bootstrap front end. I’d build the thing they wanted, and the designers would get looped in for QA and insist that various pieces had to look like their little wireframe down to the pixel. I mean look, it’s easy right?

I asked why they are insisting on constantly going against the standards that had been adopted company-wide. Did it stop? Why no! Did I get a suit down with my boss? Why yes!

He is/was a cool guy and saw my perspective but also gave me precious advice on how to survive.

Pfft 😂

Roko’s basilisk is The Game for futurists.

Here you go, enjoy. You win!

This should be fun. Let’s watch in real time how the ThEy ShOuLd FoLlOw ThE rUlEs people suddenly stop carrying about rules.

I love how the author starts making this about China and then drops this:

It is the Enlightenment against 21st century feudalism.

Then, after gingerly defending American exceptionalism, says this:

We must always try to align our values with our policy, and that’s not always easy.

Align values to policy. Not align policy to values.

They do get what’s happening but are still in America, Fuck Yeah! mode.