This is basically the same development pattern I have, although I use Claude with the vscode Continue extension instead of standalone.

Your "perfect" world sounds quite boring. I would either play games, and find meaning in them (just as I have many times in the past) or, more likely, ask the ASI to uplift me until I could contribute meaningfully.

And in fact, this is the effect AI has had on me today. I offload as much as I can to it, and in the process am able to take on bigger and cooler and more ambitious projects. AI has made me more agentic, confident, and competent, and I'm excited to see where this goes once I can become a true cyborg.

I weak down voted.

I agree with the core thesis that we (rationalists) fucked up by abandoning politics... but this post is so badly written. It's painful to read, especially when the core ideas are actually pretty original and insightful. Like a beautiful new laptop being casually tossed in the mud.

I'm worried about discouraging you too much from writing, but... maybe learn to prompt a little better next time? You have good ideas; they just need better presentation.

Yes, it's permanent because it kills the hair follicles.

Holy fuck.

There's a small gravel and asphalt clearing at the end of the driveway that you can park in!

I think LW actively tries to promote user agency. Some examples that I've noticed in the design:

• Downvotes
• Strong votes
• Configurable feed
• Text heavy design (images are only bestowed upon the best posts and even then they're heavily stylized and not grabby)
• Notification settings including batched notifications
• Votes placed after the post body to encourage voting after reading
• Non infinite scroll feed
• lots and lots more, there are many tiny things about lw that make me think the people who designed it cared about UX in a very different way from the typical marketer

You seem to have a rather warped and narrow view of rationality, maybe because LW rationality and ancient rationality are, despite sharing a name, not at all the same thing. Most of what you name Strategy I would consider part of rationality, whether or not any given rationalist is skilled at it. Your frame is unnecessarily adversarial and limiting, failing to understand what LW rationality is and how Strategy meshes with it, even though the critique of the rationality community as lacking Strategy skill is accurate.

Yes. I use chronological sort on all posts for LW. I use Reddit and Twitter like this too - algorithms have always sucked for me (just in the basic sense of delivering what I want) so I got in the habit of avoiding them a while ago.