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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 43m

Could almost say that Hexapodia is the key insight?

Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 1h

How many people in Congress are p(doomers) a la Yud/Bernie now? A worrisome % I'd say, but it probably translates into policy which is bad in other ways.

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 2h

(Spoilers) in the context of this reveal is doing a lot.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 4h

not to be flippant but I think that almost all of these people have severe personality disorders and it’s merely a result of circumstance that they’re here instead of storming the capitol on Jan 6th

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 3h

Somehow I'd never heard of Olo before today. How could you not call it 'Octarine'?!?

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Olo (color) - Wikipedia

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 3h

Guess that's why she got this one spot on.

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Corvus caurinus var. Alyssa 𓅊 @mj12ash.bsky.social · 4h

“The laundry files” aren’t fiction

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 5h

You really should name the particular individual. :|

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 7h

The ghosts of Adam Smith and Ricardo teaming up for one last job

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 8h

Thanks for saying this Damien. I knew Aaron and thought of him as that 'hopelessly idealistic kid he was vaguely irritating but generally right'. The idea that he was hounded to death for IP maximalism and so somehow we all should be is gross.

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 17h

If it helps I'm Gen X and I am on my fourth manager in under a year. Great to know the people in power over me are also experiencing the Churn.

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 23h

I think there are some strong feelings about this, but as someone with a background in math it seems stunning and cause to be excited!

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 23h

Right if this stuff is fake for sure they should be castigated but their other proofs have been valid so far? So far it seems like we got a lot of real, significant results today.

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 23h

Not an endorsement of any of the participants mathematical character. Also if you think releasing results for spite is bad let me introduce you to a good chunk of math history.

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 23h

Sorry my crazy cult belief is mathematical platonism and I think it's a sin to bottle up mathematical truth. So as long as the results are real my other ask is to release Mathgod (the model). All the rest of these things seem like math tone policing

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 23h

Wait these proofs seem .. sound so far? They definitely aren't garbage.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.

As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Understanding the implications of these results will be the work of years or even decades, and they will point the way to still more results. The proofs are available for all of us to see, debate, assimilate, and then even _find different proofs_, and we will understand even more.

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"We are only capable of receiving truth in tiny, measured chunks." This is quitter talk folks. Someone shows up with 700+ pretty important results in math, the correct answer is: Amazing! Where do we go from here?

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Error error my vision is impaired.

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And if I want to make a really daring claim: I think the auto-generated code will (with the assistance of other models for testing and analysis) be on average more secure than the average code produced by humans.

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Also if people don't think 20th century communism didn't have a productivity fetish, I dunno what to tell them. Not an endorsement of either system, but centering capitalism as the mono villain will bite you every time.

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’ve said this before, but it’s sort of insane that no British political party is willing to champion Games Workshop, one of the country’s most successful, British born and run companies, and would much rather simp for Palantir or OpenAI

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Wow people think this isn't a TX thing? Sigh, I have judged TX for liking this for years, get it straight! Disclaimer: I live in a state that puts french fries in burritos so I feel like I should be able to judge.

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I thought it was rum, sodomy, and the lash, but I guess times change!

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I still remember the first time someone explained prop 13 to me and I looked up the property tax my landlord paid compared to a friend who'd just bought down the street. It was radicalizing, because we have a law that mints landed gentry.

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well in a healthy democracy, elected officials set rules and can force transparency. This is more or less in contrast to 'Anthropic can decide what's safe'. It's interesting to me because it means he decided to knife them in the back! And just fumbled on the PR spin.

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I am not handing it to Altman, but in context he is talking about a priesthood in one company in SF deciding what is safe vs. the world. Of course, every other bit of context about him ever causes any reasonable person to read it in the supervillain way.

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Nicholas Mancuso @nmancuso.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

burying the lede Claude, an AI model developed by Anthropic, discovered the algorithm that refutes the 3SUM, APSP, and Exact Triangle hypotheses. The authors then worked to understand, simplify, strengthen and extend the algorithm, derive additional consequences and make the presentation accessible

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's just a WAG but once you think about it it's a skeleton key for a lot of his work.

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

OOPS sorry I just inferred that from every single thing he ever wrote. Could be a totally crank theory but uh, I think a lot about it makes sense.

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well yeah Ender was his stand-in for himself as an abuse victim.

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm a home owner and I approve this message. (Cursed)

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Buying the books would have been *** Much *** cheaper.

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

[Not an endorsement or an indictment], but the big labs all had the money to buy ever a copy of every human work of art, which is all the courts say is necessary for training. Anthropic got in trouble for pirating their book library, and the cure was to pay the fine then go buy the books.

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Someone went inside to pull a gun on me in western PA when I asked to give his wife (a registered Dem voter) Harris literature. [1] NBD, you haven't lived until some white trash has pointed a shotgun at you. [1] "Thank you for your commitment to our democratic process."

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yeah, and honestly it's super weak sauce to imagine that being teleported to those empyrean heights won't encourage you to figure out *why*. Though some of the proofs actually show this already? Just sounds like quitter talk to me. Git gud (some fields medalists?).

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That strikes me as less anti-intellectualism and more desperation for whoever can win. Worked in 2020; sorry he couldn't make it to 2024. But I'm from Alabama. MS right next door. The level of attacks on even the idea of working with your mind was profound.

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The deep red states are just where American anti-intellectualism has *won*.

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Didn't work for Peter Thiel or JD Vance. :|

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Despite a million Atlantic/NYT articles of 'real' America being interviewed in a diner or whatever. My first, less nice thought was that if you want real welfare cheats, uh, these are the people you should be looking at and that AZ ad was too on the nose. Hit dog hollars, etc.

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think the divide between people growing up in educated suburbs/cities and rural America is super vast, and it doesn't surprise me to see some other professionally successful and even well-known people not realizing this!

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

With a side of you either have God-given talent or not.

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I heard this stuff all the time growing up in rural Alabama. Intellectual work was not valued, in some cases not masculine and often suspect. Also ties in with spending your life in a trailer park.

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