Rohan Mahnot

it’s fascinating that today modern humans are still running a credential matching algorithm disguised as attraction. e.g. 6ft, symmetrical face, status markers… these are visible proxies that compress well into a profile or a first impression yet will never tell you whether or not someone will abandon you in times of high variance entropy like if you get sick or something. the latter gets systematically underweighted because it doesn’t resolve until the option period has long expired. only when you’re older you realize that the only thing that survives the death of eros is logos.

While products like Wisprflow and SuperWhispr and all sorts of other forms of "whisp" are really amazing (truly I love how they clean up text, and catch all mistakes), I cannot understand why anyone would do serious work by dictating like this

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Saw a mutual guy friend who’s on a solo trip in Japan. He posts a picture of Mount Fuji and captions it: “that’s how beautiful (gf’s name) is.” And I just sat there thinking… yeah. That’s the only acceptable way to behave when you’re in love. To look at one of the most majestic natural wonders on the planet and your first thought is still your lover.

much of the nature of the world is explained by the nature of bureaucracy and yet - bureaucracy is rarely written about well beyond cliches. the great authors and people who worked in a large organization are generally disjoint. more common in east asian media