mitat

A name which represents homosexuality of a black guy

Oh mitat, slay, rail me

by Mitat January 25, 2025

MITE

MITE (or "Minecraft Is Too Easy") is a mod for Minecraft version 1.6.4. by the user Avernite. Created around 2012-2013, MITE focuses on the survival aspect of Minecraft and generally makes the survival experience way more difficult. Some people might even call it "The hardest version of Minecraft", due to many hoops you have to do in your world to progress (e.g. To mine wood, you have to mine gravel to find flint. Then combine it with sticks from trees to get the "Flint Hatchet" and then you can mine a whopping 3 wooden logs.) The mod alters 500 class files of Minecraft 1.6.4. and adds many more mechanics and items. People often characterise the mod to be made in China, however that's not true. MITE was just popularised by a Chinese community and most of the info for the game could be found on Chinese media (e.g. on BiliBili).

Bro, what the fuck did the chinese put into the mite mod?
- Probably some dude playing that

by Imadeboi February 3, 2026

Metaengineering

The discipline of engineering engineering systems. It applies systems thinking and advanced project management to the entire lifecycle of complex technological endeavors, from conceptual design and team organization to maintenance and decommissioning. Metaengineering focuses on optimizing the process of engineering: ensuring reliability, safety, scalability, and ethical integration of large-scale projects like power grids, space programs, or global telecommunications networks.

Example: NASA's approach to the Apollo program was an early form of Metaengineering. The challenge wasn't just building a rocket, but architecting an unprecedented system of parallel engineering teams, rigorous failure mode analysis, and real-time mission control logistics—engineering the very practice of moonshot engineering.

by Nammugal February 5, 2026

Metaepistemological Sciences

The formal study of how we study how we know things, a discipline so recursive that its practitioners are often found in a state of permanent confusion, unsure whether they are knowing, knowing about knowing, or knowing about knowing about knowing. It's the field that asks: How do we know that our methods for acquiring knowledge are valid? And how do we know that we know that? And if we can't be certain about certainty, what can we be certain about? (Spoiler: nothing). Metaepistemological sciences are popular among grad students who have read too much philosophy and now question whether their coffee cup actually exists.

Example: "Her thesis in metaepistemological sciences was an attempt to establish a valid methodology for validating methodologies. After three years, she concluded that any methodology used to validate itself is inherently circular, and therefore, her entire thesis was based on a logical flaw. She was awarded a PhD for 'exceptional self-awareness.'"

by Nammugal February 14, 2026

Metaepistemological Technologies

The tools and systems designed to help us understand, validate, or improve our ways of knowing, which usually just make us more aware of how little we actually know. This includes critical thinking apps that prompt you to "examine your assumptions" (leading to an infinite regress of assumption-examination), AI fact-checkers that cite sources that cite other AI fact-checkers, and "bias detection" software that is itself biased because it was written by humans. The most advanced metaepistemological technology remains a good friend who says "are you sure about that?" and then listens to your increasingly uncertain response.

Metaepistemological Technologies Example: "I used a metaepistemological app that promised to analyze the reliability of my news sources. It flagged one article as 'potentially unreliable' because it was cited by a source that the app had previously flagged as 'potentially unreliable.' I then realized the app was just arguing with itself and went back to getting my news from Twitter, which at least was honestly chaotic."

by Nammugal February 14, 2026

Metaepistemological Engineering

The ambitious practice of trying to design and construct better, more reliable systems for acquiring and validating knowledge. It's the attempt to build a perfect knowledge machine, a flawless method that will finally separate truth from falsehood, fact from opinion, and science from pseudoscience. The problem is that every knowledge machine has to be built by someone who knows things, and that someone's knowledge is itself derived from... some other machine. It's knowledge turtles all the way down. Most metaepistemological engineering projects result in systems that are internally consistent but completely useless outside their own carefully defined bubble.

Metaepistemological Engineering Example: "He spent a decade metaepistemologically engineering a perfect decision-making protocol based on Bayesian updating, peer review, and systematic doubt. He then used it to choose a dentist. The protocol rejected all dentists because their claims about fluoride could not be independently verified to his satisfaction. He now has no teeth but a beautifully consistent epistemological framework."

by Nammugal February 14, 2026

Metaepistemological Social Sciences

The study of how groups of people collectively develop, maintain, and argue about their shared ways of knowing. It examines why scientific communities sometimes cling to outdated paradigms (because the old guys who established them are still alive and grant-reviewing), why conspiracy theories spread so effectively (because they offer a simpler, more emotionally satisfying epistemology than the complicated truth), and why "common sense" is different in every culture (because knowing is a social activity). It's the field that reveals that even our most cherished "facts" are often just things we all agreed to stop arguing about.

Example: "A metaepistemological social sciences study explored why flat-Earthers believe what they believe. It found that their epistemology wasn't necessarily 'worse' than mainstream science; it was just different, prioritizing personal experience and distrust of authority over peer review and empirical consensus. The study was then attacked by flat-Earthers for being part of the very 'authority conspiracy' it was describing."

by Nammugal February 14, 2026