Violet/Multi MultisampledNight

Altruistic, transparent, queer, weird, accidentally pretentious at times. I try to say very little to not waste the reader's time. Contains focus bugs.

My love for systems and my love for life are intertwined and unseparable; that is not a blanket card for cruelty or egotistic gain. While systems (including technology) can be helpful, not all of them are, also being highly context-dependent.

I don't have much to contribute on my own other than superficial structures, thoughts and art. Hence, attempts at expressing my stances and motivations via quotes:

the best way to help the project is to keep contributing to it for years. to do that, you have to avoid burning out, which means you have to treat yourself well. —jyn in "the rust project has a burnout problem", 2024年01月16日

Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words. —Ursula K. Le Guin in her NBF medal speech, 2014年11月19日

External pressure on the systems works. Otherwise lobbyism would not exist. —Nico Semsrott in "Satire vs. Politik" on ZDF at 30:15 (translated from German), 2026年03月03日

You're a fucking coward. You're trying to convince yourself that fate absolves you of your actions. —Daniel Pine in "Ballerina" at roughly 6:50, 2025年06月06日

Yes, there are good use cases for AI. I don't think most reasonable people would argue with that. [...] But calling out such cases tends to be a bad-faith attempt to justify all of AI's other harms by using disabled people and others who might benefit from AI, rather than reckoning with the damage and rethinking our deployment of AI in order to maximize good and minimize harm for everyone. We don't have to accept every use of AI and all of its impacts just because some of them might be beneficial.

Finally, let me take a moment to address anyone who might be thinking: sure, AI is being used for some bad things, but I'm not personally using it that way. What's wrong with me just focusing on the good parts and enjoying the benefits to me?

My friend, that's privilege. You are literally describing privilege. —Josh Collinsworth in "AI optimism is a class privilege", 2025年12月03日

Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.

[...] You have to pick up the pencil. You have to attempt the problem. You have to get it wrong, sit with the wrongness, and figure out where your reasoning broke. Reading the solution manual and nodding along feels like understanding. It is not understanding. Every student who has tried to coast through a problem set by reading the solutions and then bombed the exam knows this in their bones. We have centuries of accumulated pedagogical wisdom telling us that the attempt, including the failed attempt, is where the learning lives. And yet, somehow, when it comes to AI agents, we've collectively decided that maybe this time it's different. That maybe nodding at Claude's output is a substitute for doing the calculation yourself. It isn't. We knew that before LLMs existed. We seem to have forgotten it in the moment they became convenient.

Centuries of pedagogy, defeated by a chat window. —Karamanis Minas in "The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.", 2026年03月30日

No one knows how to live your life. And you might not either. But the only person who's gonna figure it out is you. And you won't find out by trying to be the next that person. You can only be the first of whoever it is that you are. Other people help in small ways, though: They give you pointers to who you could be. And I think what makes me happiest in the world is feeling like I might have helped some people with that. —hbomberguy in "Plagiarism and You(Tube)" at 3:46:05, 2023年12月03日

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