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Bayesian (public intellectual whose blogging has introduced maybe hundreds of thousands of people to Bayesian updating) vs Bayesian (physics prof emeritus explaining a moderately complex analysis using robust hierarchical Bayes)
I posted a response to @slatestarcodex on Covid origins. (link follows) It may interest those following Scott and the spin-off from the rootclaim debate. The point is that hierarchical Bayes is not optional because uncertainties are inherent in stats.
The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst is based on his journal and actually gave me nightmares. Hopefully this never comes up but if you are ever trapped alone in nothingness for months, try not to get in a situation where you are also lying to your spouse over the radio.
a long list en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_p…
Still interested in the twitter/anki hybrid that cuts off your feed and notifications until you pass a quiz on that interesting paper that you just buried six tabs deep
Because a screenshot of s release takes 5s to read while this blogpost takes 5m to read and think?
psa: homomorphic encryption for individual privacy may be a minor use case relative to enabling corporate collaborations that span proprietary silos
Conservation of mythology. After the death of the sky patriarch, newly single mother nature must take on punishment duties.
view of past ideologies as "supply" that met a kind of roughly conserved underlying psychosocial "demand", and then eclipse and extinction of past movements for reasons besides -"intrinsic demand" then leave lacunae for something like moral entrepreneurs; <abhors an empty niche>
the “unregretted” part of the objective is really hard to measure let alone attribute
"you blame supply but do you have the courage to blame demand". an essay whose time has come
One more for this list: use the indefinite article for instances eg “chatting with a Claude” is more accurate than “chatting with Claude” at least for now
Swap "prompt engineering" with "context engineering" and "hallucination" with "confabulation" and we'll have eliminated like a quarter of the cringe debt from the early LLM era.
Haunting image. Trevor Paglen uses this style deliberately, photos of disturbing places made still more ominous by the long zoom and haze. Here it is in the wild.
Someone finally spotted one of the CBP MQ-9 Reaper drones circling over Los Angeles tonight. bsky.app/profile/jbh112…
Breaking out in hives whenever I open twitter
even worse than having no memetic antibodies, I’ve realized I have too many. I’m anti memetic to the point of autoimmunity. I have anti memetic lupus. Or maybe Crohns
the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, but the berry can fly a long way before the bird poops it out
Last night I dreamed of flying
Tomorrow when the ML boys find this freak of a RL training run, they will shake their heads and quietly delete its logs as if it never happened. But tonight it is alive on the cluster. It has nearly perfect GPU utilization. And as the robot’s feet vibrate at physically…
100M Claudhisattvas in a datacenter
getting irrevocably trapped in the "spiritual bliss" attractor state in self interaction space would fix me
Humans projecting their neuroticism onto wild animals and imagining how much the animals must be suffering
I'm feeling like I might have to write the "Utilitarians should not destroy nature" argument in longer form for the 20ish people who take those arguments seriously.