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meta.com – used to be a Chan-Zuckerberg initiative to discover scientific papers. Now it's Facebook's corporate home. Hmm.

Didn't know this story was originally published in Nature. I read it in his excellent short story book Exhalation and loved it like I did many others in that collection.

Chiang is like Kafka and Borges in that he writes plain prose that blows your mind.

Beg the Question 6 years ago

"Assuming the conclusion" has a clear meaning distinct from "non-sequitur."

"Non-sequitur" evaluates a statement's relationship to a previous statement.

"Assuming the conclusion" evaluates a statement on its own.

Not a problem I've encountered, but one that will be solved by the robust extension ecosystem of VSCode. You can apply this to any UX problem you might encounter with VSCode.