Notes in 2025

  • Between Mute and Murdebot I have now come to the simple conclusion that Alexander Skarsgård is funny as fuck and making him not talk in Mute was a terrible idea 🤣

  • I believe that existing (pre LLM) software dev was flawed, largely inadequate, and a recipe for future crises.

  • Dr. W. Edwards Deming’s 14 management principles:

    1. Create constancy of purpose toward improvement of product and service, with the aim to become competitive and to stay in business, and to provide jobs.

    2. Adopt the new philosophy. We are in a new economic age. Western management must awaken to the challenge, must learn their responsibilities, and take on leadership for change.

    3. Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product in the first place.

    4. End the practice of awarding business on the basis of price tag. Instead, minimize total cost. Move toward a single supplier for any one item, on a long-term relationship of loyalty and trust.

    5. Improve constantly and forever the system of production and service, to improve quality and productivity, and thus constantly decrease costs.

    6. Institute training on the job.

    7. Institute leadership. The aim of supervision should be to help people and machines and gadgets to do a better job. Supervision of management is in need of overhaul, as well as supervision of production workers.

    8. Drive out fear, so that everyone may work effectively for the company.

    9. Break down barriers between departments. People in research, design, sales, and production must work as a team, to foresee problems of production and in use that may be encountered with the product or service.

    10. Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. Such exhortations only create adversarial relationships, as the bulk of the causes of low quality and low productivity belong to the system and thus lie beyond the power of the work force.

    11a. Eliminate work standards (quotas) on the factory floor. Substitute leadership.

    11b. Eliminate management by objective. Eliminate management by numbers, numerical goals. Substitute leadership.

    12a. Remove barriers that rob the hourly worker of his right to pride of workmanship. The responsibility of supervisors must be changed from sheer numbers to quality.

    12b. Remove barriers that rob people in management and in engineering of their right to pride of workmanship. This means, inter alia, abolishment of the annual or merit rating and of management by objective.

    1. Institute a vigorous program of education and self-improvement.

    2. Put everybody in the company to work to accomplish the transformation. The transformation is everybody’s job.

  • Become the thing you fear, so that it will cease to control you.

  • Most importantly, with no thought given as to if any of these locals have the slightest interest in knowing you. Forbid that the inhabitants of a developing country might have a purpose to exist outside being a conduit for the self-actualisation of a western middle class youth fresh off the back of an overpriced humanities degree. https://vidurabr.com/essays/in-defence-of-tourists-over-travellers

  • I won’t perform my rock bottom for you for the sake of being believed.

  • The Turing Test II: Return of Alan. Except this time, it’s two LLMs arguing online and you’re supposed to pick a side. Plot twist, the only correct answer is to leave. (And go kill the billionaires)

  • What if we sacrificed all the fucking AI CEOs to the god machines? I think maybe, just maybe that would stem the tide of nonsense regurgitators.

  • I love watching Jordan Piss-Baby Peterson get his ass handed back to him by people who understand his way of arguing (which is when he talks by making mouth noises that make zero sense).

  • Now say something beautiful and true.

  • Your body will betray you every second of every day.

  • How lucky aren’t we that the most ignorant fuckwits who like to cosplay as armed revolutionaries are also the ones buying cybertrucks, a flimsy piece of shit that can’t even handle a wooden fence.

  • Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.

  • I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way for the rest of my life. Andor Kertész

  • It’s not a sound business strategy to tow the line on mediocrity. (paraphrased from TheOtherFrost)

  • I fucking love the show Andor, so good!

  • 🎼AI is shit, AI is shit, la la la la, AI is shit…

  • Tyranny requires constant effort. Nemik, Andor (TV show)

  • Set temperature to 0 and nucleus sampling to 0.01.

    I, Carlos Christian Eriksson, hereby abhor, denounce, and—without hesitation—loathe all forms of AI and in the event of my demise, decry any and all uses of said AI for the purposes of addressing the court. Other than to say, fuck you.

  • Sometimes, your clarinet is just broken.

  • Bring back BRB by actually leaving.

    Brb.

  • […] I look for an alternative, I mean the track needs, [proceeds to play standard drum pattern]. Okay, I can provide that but I’m an asshole so I’m probably gonna not provide that and gonna do something else. Stewart Copeland Hears Limp Bizkit For The First Time

  • The pressure to innovate on the speed of garbage creation. We need to stop.

  • Maybe, hear me out, measuring our worth based on our willingness to polish the Nazi’s uniforms, is a bad idea?

  • Note for Future Carlos: Remember, when you get stuck, don’t worry about the Whole, just focus on the Next step and do that. If you know the Next step, you actually know enough.

  • If we can’t have chocolate without slavery, we shouldn’t have chocolate.

  • You can shame someone out of being a bad person. You can’t shame them into being a good one.

  • Some of us, were never used to the consequences of our thoughts and actions, and it shows.

  • Your daily reminder that Sam Altman is a thief and a conman, nothing more.

  • Kill all the billionaires.

  • After 11 days (I think it was) I return to being signed off.

  • Tolerance is a social contract of mutual tolerance. Otherwise, get the fuck out. Very paraphrased from Yonathan Zunger’s Medium article.

  • Little by little, the frog began to suspect that perhaps, they too, were being boiled.

  • Why is it professors who get tenure and no-one else?

  • I think the root of my problem, is that I want to perform a service to society. And tech, as it stands today, is not that.

  • In this week’s episode of Carlos, I return to work after 42 days of being signed off for burnout and stress.

  • “Are we the bad guys?”

    Question number 42 that Elon “Nazi salute” Musk hasn’t asked himself.

  • My “hot” take if you will, is that all, yes all, forms of contemporary AI work is about erasing the living experiences of marginalised and minoritised people to, once again, recenter White Capitalist Supremacy.

  • Every day I want to have the courage to dance like Tom Holland. I love dancing and don’t do it nearly enough.

  • Respect given to you as another human is the default. Disrespect is earned.

  • I have been many different personas over the years, perhaps I’m allowed to bury some?

  • Never let the family you came from hurt the family you created.

  • AI-driven VTuber, Neurosama, is a fascinating example of our species isn’t it? So novelty seeking are we that This is somehow worth our attention.

  • Not everything needs to be a “thing”.

  • You made a child, now hug them for fucks sake.

  • I am not accepting generative AI and I do NOT, in fact, need to learn to live with it. It’s literal garbage.