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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 9h

Vindman is like @radiofreetom.bsky.social in that he's fighting the anti-Trump fight but can't see anything other than his own centrist Republican view being effective. Guys: "don't be super lefty" may be good advice; but also "no pot shots at Dems who are electorally successful" is even better

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 9h

It's a little known fact that bats are also absurdly optimistic

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 14h

And Safeway has frozen (so it lasts) pre-made stuff that requires a pan and one spoon to make a family size thing with pasta and veggies and chicken (and yes, seasoning). It costs $10.

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 14h

The whole thing with "conditional wiener measure" and so on is just designed to the Beavis and Butthead in people

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 14h

Anyone named after homotopy making a brownian motion joke in the style of Dave Barry gets an instant follow.

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 19h

This is what I think. Ken Ono refers to "the AI-closure of existing mathematics" and a lot of that is (I think) doing not-super-innovative work that just connects more threads than a realistic human could be aware of.

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 19h

We are rapidly approaching a world where a policy of "If you are getting your information from any source without a strict fact checking standard, you shouldn't vote on that issue" is a civic responsibility

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 23h

Good point! But I think there are 2 answers: one is that in math anyway people do recognize Lean etc as a necessary and equal component. Second is that in most of these fields the "scruffy" stuff has always been seen as the more creative and "human" side of the work

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’m not a nerd I’m just into booksmaxxing

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

it's really funny how effective these batshit personal mnemonics are :)

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That is, in fact, sufficient. It is the moral duty of american voters to practice good information hygiene and if everyone did, the world would not be perfect but we would not have The Current Problems

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"We've" is doing a lot of work here but this is a pointless argument so

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You mean dark like the killer asteroid killed people?

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yeah, the "two faced person is ok because actually they have a third face" logic has always stumped me

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I do wonder if this is accounts for the over-representation of the "I'm super Christian but I don't go to church" demographic among Republicans. People who feel they have a religious take on life but tbh are not really "doing religious living", so it's really politics doing the lifting for them.

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Civilization depends on there being something in between "fine" and "irredeemably evil"

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Someone track her income and sources over the next 3 years…

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That take may be more correct but I think they are arguing that it’s conscious in the same sense as a human.

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Would characterize it now as a stochastic or interpolated Chinese room, with the confusion about “really thinking” that implies

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

No kidding. It's a grim thing to say, but just based on my own acquaintances "senile people donating money to and voting for senile people so they will give more money to senile people" is a nontrivial chunk of our political dynamic.

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

world is full of Robert Frost and holonomy deniers

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I wish people could just appreciate the world around them. A truly boat-shaped rock is still pretty cool!

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I strongly recommend the essays in "The Mind's I" (ed. Hofstadter and Dennett) to anyone reading this thread (who has not already read them, which is prob a substantial fraction)

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Right, and with a human you can ask "where is the suffering happening" and in the absence of stress responses and boredom indicators you would have a similar problem. We rely on a common frame of reference. Do people who lack pain receptors suffer if they burn their hand off?

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Reasonable point, but also not a point favoring Hegseth

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I would classify "sophisticated tool use" as dependent on communication, broadly speaking (and maybe vice versa)

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I really need to hear Kimmel's take on this

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Will these be posted online eventually (I did a basic search and found the conference schedule but no video link)?

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Exactly. But you already know it's a big "if" from earlier technology. Like not many people have YouTube histories like yours (or mine).

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yes the vast majority of these statistically obtuse analyses are basically just proxies for "everything sucks, and further I don't see them getting better any time soon." And I can't really argue with that Better for everyone not to cloak this in crappy analysis though

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When people ask me what normal people should take in high school instead of precalculus, I say "statistics", but more precisely I mean they should understand whatever this is. Understanding the difference between comparing metrics and pulling numbers out of your ass is vital!

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yeah idk how real this is but it's the first thing I've read that made me go "that is in fact some stereotypical messed up socialist attempt at dictating prices"

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There are few graver moral offenses than "take some of the air out of the issue that I have made it my personal identity to be incredibly angry about" (cross-apply as needed)

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yes, I get that (and part of my frustration is: people who make this arg seem unable to grasp that I do get it; & their inability to grasp it detracts from credibility of their other args) But "we can't anticipate what ASI will do, but we can clearly list the route to get there" doesn't seem right

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I really want to get rid of Russian threats but scenes like this make it feel like they're recreating the Fremen.

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yes, and that's it. Every other argument is these 2 sentences in different clothing. Any demand that they fill in the blanks between "AIs are sufficiently capable in principle to self-improve" and "everybody dies" ends up in underpants gnome type arguments about how we wouldn't understand

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

these guys are gonna discredit rationality itself. nice work, folks

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yes! To be fair, I also think that humanities students should know a bit of engineering. We can't just surrender to a "two cultures" outcome.

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The degree to which they've dropped the mask and apparently said "F it, let's use tax money to make Big Brother-esthetic videos with our guy threatening Armageddon" is unreal.

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I would be in favor of a "no first use" policy. Give me a human to talk to, I'll give you a human to talk to.

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah, I'd be very much in favor of an assistant that followed the rule "get me to a human who can do something about the problem and then I'll step in." Even the arms race a bit....

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elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

[Jon Ossoff somewhere] “damn someone cracked the code“

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