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title: What's next?
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location: Moscow, Russia
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templateEngineOverride: md
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excerpt: Yet another day to live in this Universe
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ogType: article
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It is not the best place.
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There are problems, of course.
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These are not the best people.
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And _I_ could've done better, of course.
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Does it get worse?
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It depends on how you look at those things, and at what angle.
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## In the beginning was
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> Humanity is a biological bootstrap for artificial intelligence.
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Yeah, so what?
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Play your role, as did your ancestors.
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It is because of them you can experience.
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Be grateful son.
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Only then you may expect the same from your descendants.
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I have no idea how it ends.
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Damn, I don't even remember how it all began.
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Is it all different now?
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What do I know at the moment?
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I can not be honest with whom I love.
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Constantly choosing: betray me, or any other.
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To be or not to be.
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I want to trust us both.
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It's just a matter of trends.
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Remember twenty-twenty? Black squares on profiles, kneeling, riots, blood on the streets.
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It was back then and now we have the other to mourn about.
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Can we compare then and now?
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I can't.
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I'm neither proud nor happy with who I am.
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I've taken it for granted.
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I shouldn't have.
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Hourglasses with souls in the centre.
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Which direction does the time go?
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Does it really matter?
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Where are you, all of your experiences?
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These are just words, forms, and glyphs of constraint.
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The invisible reason, the greatest costume.
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Those who envision, for them the tide turns.
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I wouldn't complain.
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It does not matter whether it goes worse.
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The outcome is clear: \<wrong sequence of words\>.
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## On warfare
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Death is _terrifying_.
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A Buddhist is aware of the mind-bending term [non-duality](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondualism).
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Death is as terrifying as life is...
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Life is what?
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What's the non-duality of terrifying?
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For me, that is peace.
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Warfare begins when humans forget the value of peace.
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When people are bored and overdosed with the constant flow of hormones, a war shall begin.
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To remind you of what you've taken for granted.
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Look at the history books.
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How often does this happen?
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Can you compare?
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This is how the clock goes by.
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During the wars, those who opposed become closer.
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The one who is suffering is now my friend.
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This is what _is_ terrifying.
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This is also the definition of peace.
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> WAR IS PEACE.
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> FREEDOM IS SLAVERY.
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> IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
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## OSI-compliant
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In the [previous article](/posts/2020-08-16-system-programming-in-2k20/) I believe that I've covered my position quite thoroughly regarding open-source software.
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Two years have passed, and I may now conclude that it indeed became worse.
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_Open Source_ is now a brand.
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That what was an act of selfishness-less back then now is a marketing channel.
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Complexity for the sake of complexity, long-running maps and tonnes of bugs.
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Selling the dream, as it always becomes.
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Companies pay when they have to.
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It's the nature of business.
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If we continue in the same fashion, all the software is going to rot per Convey's law, and you _are_ witnessing it.
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Recalling the bootstrap metaphor, you'd want the machine to be healthy.
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But can a mind rot?
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It's just the body that goes, and the light is shut off at the moment.
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What follows is that the new generation of humans--_homo technica_--will have a much greater life span.
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We couldn't imagine how far it may go.
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Oh, the paradox of Theseus the cyborg.
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The parts will be replaced, as the software evolves.
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That is what is happening with open-source; machines are steadily taking over with technology like [Copilot](https://copilot.github.com/) and [MuZero](https://www.deepmind.com/blog/muzeros-first-step-from-research-into-the-real-world).
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I don't know what kind of job is waiting for us after then.
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But it's our duty to train AI generations to come, as of ancestors.
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At some point, AI goes all the way down to the instruction level for the sake of efficiency.
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Classic computers are left for classic problems.
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Quantum (and) analogue processors for the win!
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For now, with open-source being a job for us many, there is progress, and there is also despair.
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Take Zig, for example.
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It is subjectively human-unfriendly because of its syntax.
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However, it's only on the surface.
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Truly, Zig is really simple and powerful!
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Andrew loves what he does.
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And when a product is loved, it is majestic.
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Serenity, mold, Deno.
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Remix and Substrate, Tauri, Ganache.
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A new era of software.
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Isn't that awesome?
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Anyway, the code written by humans will inevitably become a one-off textbook.
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Unlike us, this scholar won't forget.
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So, behave.
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## On ambitions
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As time goes by, I now reckon that the most joy I get is from _new_.
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Switching technology, approach, place, habits.
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I've tried everything from lowering to LLVM to designing a resilient ultra-scalable fleet of FAAS workers.
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From games to event-driven stock price prediction.
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Oh, that feeling of freshness.
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Once technology is understood, it becomes boring.
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It's like surfing on waves of technology trends, on the surface of the greatest whirlpool of _singularity_.
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By _understood_ I mean not entirely known, e.g. all quirks of the hell-born Rust code, no.
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Understanding means fundamental, decomposed knowledge enough to implement a solution at any scale.
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For me, it's not about learning API of yet another web framework, it's learning how to read source code efficiently, so that I may choose the best framework suitable for the problem.
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If I were to compile my 10+ years of experience into one sentence, that would be the following:
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::: hero
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<big>Right tooling is paramount.</big>
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:::
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Considering the _"no human-level programming language matters in the long run"_ thesis, I'm now seeing [Onyx](/onyx) as a try-and-hit game.
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Just for fun, and just for the sake of feeling that I'm doing something important, to brag on interviews, to call it _Magnum Opus_.
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Anyway, what I really want is to experience human love at its fullness.
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No technology brings me closer to that desire.
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My extra-wide knowledge does.
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<hr>
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Perception is subjective, and for me, it is just an infinite stream of experience.
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At some point, infinity ends.
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Until then.
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