nomagicpill

Lines Will Move Further Away If They Aren’t Defined Three types of lines exist in the policy and behavior sense: * Soft: These are okay to cross, but not preferable. There may or may not be a tangible action taken afterwards, but the person whose line was crossed should take...

Over the last few months we[1] have been doing a sleep experiment inspired by our suspicion that orexin is an exciting target for sleep need reduction. We mildly deprived ourselves of sleep (5-5.5 hours, relative to 7-7.5 hours normally) and took either a placebo or orexin intranasally. We tracked our...

* An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me: An OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot)) agent goes wild on a developer for rejecting a pull request. Plenty of follow-up material. * Best Of Moltbook: Related to the above, Moltbook is a Reddit-like community for OpenClaw bots to gather and...

* My Apartment Art Commission Process: jenn details how she captures her apartments in digital art form. It even includes an email template! * “Everything’s Expensive” is Negative Social Contagion: Justis argues that saying such things makes people think the economy is bad, resulting in “facially insane political choices”. I’d...

Taiwan trip report from 23-30 November 2025. This is more a collection of thoughts and observations about Taiwan than a play-by-play report. Vibes, or What Paul Graham Would Say Taiwan is nice. By what definition of nice? you ask. To which I answer: all of them. The place itself is...

I had a wonderful time at LessOnline 2025 and am excitedly looking forward to the 2026 installment. If you're reading this, you should definitely consider going! Here are a few ideas I had that may improve the LessOnline experience a bit. Feel free to add your own ideas to the...

Here’s everything I read in December 2025. It’s very roughly ordered from what I find most to least interesting. * Hunting For North Korean Fiber Optic Cables: The author uses various internet images and material to piece together how NK has its fiber optics lines laid throughout the country. *...