Consistently Candid Alex

European starlings can only be found in America because a 19th Shakespeare fanatic felt that every bird mentioned in a Shakespeare play should exist here, so he released 60 of them into Central Park. They cause an estimated 800 million dollars worth of crop damage a year.

The great Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges (1899 – 1986) explains why English is “a far finer language than Spanish.” I was very impressed by his collection of short stories, Ficciones.

The true nature of bird migration was finally understood in western science thanks to the discovery of this stork in Germany which was still alive despite having a central African hunter's spear through its neck

will the epstein files prove to be trump's Waterloo?

Chelsea Walton's handwriting

In the next year, I think we'll start to see some nontrivial mathematics conjectures proved with AI assistance. Most likely using creative connections between fields (AI is very good at this). If even a few of these proofs hold up, it means the dam is about to burst.

Wow ok unfollowing now. Loved his refusal of servitude in heaven, did not know he was responsible for the fall of man

Every now and then a new person sees, for the first time, one of the thousand faces of Deity; what I would name "simplicity priors", without which biological life as we know it could not exist.

35 percent of men in medieval England were called John. More than half of men were named John or William. From data from the 1377-1381 poll tax.

who decided on "machine learning researcher" instead of

They live without air conditioning, in tune with the rhythms of the seasons

We (ie mathematicians) may indeed may become relics in the age of AI See scientificamerican.com/article/inside…

Everything, Everywhere all at once.

By constraining the model-agnostic Bayesian updating equations by the functional form of attention, we derived a Constrained Belief Updating equation, that predicted we should find different fractals after attention but before the MLP. Our predictions were true in experiment!

Fixed it

it was a complicated 17 hour surgery but they finally managed to separate the art from the artist

Most of these studies are quackery but I do believe this one is true because the political Left disagrees mostly on when and how the state should do things instead of the market, while the political Right has yet to come to a consensus on the shape of this planet

Some Boomer: "Grok, is this real?" Grok:

Total @ESYudkowsky rationalist victory. Rationalists, as always, win, and they win totally, rapidly, and with less effort than you take to win. Rationalists demonstrate the power of orientationmaxxing. Rationalists maneuver better than you, and rationalists win.