2024-08-11 Links Digest

Published: 2024-08-11

Tagged: links-digest

• On Seeing Through and Unseeing: The Hacker Mindset
  • The mental process that Gwern describes looks like runaway reductionism. It's probably the best description of what hacking feels like that I've found.
• Big Tech at the End of History
  • Is tech the only space left for people to get some thymos?
• The Case for American Seriousness (2022)
  • Is American exceptionalism coming back? If so, what kind of beast is it? Seems it's all about building.
• Vibecamp & Porcfest: An Ethnography of The Internet's Edge
  • Reading this made me slightly more worried about the subculture that is rationalism. But I'm also now much more curious about the culture the is New England.
• New York’s long road to congestion pricing
  • Too bad governor Hochul axed it at the last moment.
• The beauty of concrete
  • The author makes a good case that our buildings are ugly not due to costs but because of essentially pop culture. Also contains fascinating bits about the production process of ornaments. When I walk the streets of NYC, I see the early- and mid-20th century buildings in a whole new light.