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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I need the biggest seed bell you have No, that's too big

normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You can't even get *humans* to stop being fascinated by finding enormous boring numbers. What's the biggest Mersenne prime these days?

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Wake me up when they publish the Millennium Prize solution, miss me on the drama

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I bet this works way better than any human would expect

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alto! @alto.fish · 24/05/2026

The Cure were really onto something when they thought of JavaScript in 1979

[Chorus]
Object, object
Object, object
Object, object
Object, object

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Claude, give me the most probable output of an account whose bio lists both HVAC and x-risk as interests

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

To be fair, if you're still employed even though everyone knows you're taking daily court-ordered drug tests, honestly you must be doing something right, for some meaning of the word "right"

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 30/04/2026

You are enjoying a nice bath. Make no mistakes.

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

This one is gonna stick with me

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Is the Chinese Communist Party Communist?, the greatest thread in the history of forums...

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Since the invention of ChatGPT the number of Rosetta Stones discovered has been rising exponentially each day

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Pleometric deactivated and with him went the best art anyone has made so far about the age of genAI :(

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

"Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings and emotions" - Will Smith

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Fearing that the US has finally FA-ed enough to have a F-ing O that can't be waved away with the magic of alternative facts and motivated reasoning.

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

You guys think it's soooo funny to tell AI's too make no mistakes. This is so stressful to the AI! What if your boss gave you a work project and then just went "make no mistakes". I would be like, is this a mafia thing? Am I going to die?

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

The problem with blue sky is that it's full of people who are intelligent enough to say something that hurts your feelings, but not emotionally regulated enough to use that power only when it's truly necessary.

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

AI: it's not X, it's Y @blackhc.bsky.social: you are like little baby. watch this

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Genealogical essentialism is a strikingly common heuristic. LLMs are trained to predict next word, therefore that's exactly what they do and no more. US police started as slave patrols, therefore that's what they are. Ancient humans did such-and-such, therefore that's what evolved human nature is.

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Great thread. I think I can add a concise insight here. Intuitively, something being cheaper means people will want more of it. But that assumes the thing is an unqualified marginal good. In reality, experienced engineers know that more code is generally a bad thing, all else equal.

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

It's upsetting to watch my son work through these platforms and get false negatives. The software will say his answer is wrong, when it's actually just not in some format the software requires without saying so. This has been a problem for decades and has led to awful results, e.g. The Case of Benny

people.wou.edu

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

When you let AI do what you should do yourself

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Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦 @johanzvrskovec.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

This is a favourite also; get killing www.reddit.com/r/funny/comm...

A children's book with a goat on the left and a kid on the right. The Swedish words for these things are written underneath as 'get' and 'killing', respectively.

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Numbers are just pretentious Booleans

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Stages of an encounter with a crazy new technology 1. It has zero value 2. It has infinite value 3. It has finite value

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I love Claude Code. It is a good boy.

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

What's My JND? 0.0026 Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Person with an advanced degree in a field whose value to humanity is only realized if people are broadly educated in it: its not my job to educate you

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

This strikes me as a category error analogous to asking whether Erlang is the unique morally correct choice of language for your next software project. Morality doesn't necessarily make these kinds of decisions for you. A framework that purports to might actually be undesirably totalizing.

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

1. Separate talking from action. If it doesn't affect you, then don't let it affect you. This eliminates 99.9% of the issue. 2. Discourage actions you dislike. If people send you workslop, object to it. Treat it like you'd treat someone being on their phone during a conversation.

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I can't stop thinking about how the black cat's voice sounds like three different people

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I can't deny it anymore, I am completely addicted to this guy's videos

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I've been using AI intensively since November. Almost all of my writing is the result of an intensive AI dialogue. But the actual AI content in my writing is well under 5%, and it only gets in when I'm tired of the topic and just want to be done

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

My local King Soopers and I are locked in a perpetual struggle in which they drop and raise prices to determine my price point, while I simply refuse to buy it at the higher price out of spite

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

I'm going to write a blog post called Against Highbrow LLM Superstition. The thesis will be that all the ways you guys think LLMs are like humans, e.g. in theory of mind, are illusions explained by hyperactive agency detection (i.e. animist superstition).

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

My son is like if Wikipedia really wanted you to know about things that it knows

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Humanism is fine. Non-human suffering is largely morally irrelevant. But it doesn't occur to sensitive people that they can simply laugh it off when Peter Singer calls them "speciesist," and they paint themselves into a moral corner where the only honest thing is to call their natural behavior evil.

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I love Julia's rampaging crusade against APC overclaiming but as an actuarial analyst, I had the impression that there were some genuine cohort effects that you could just read off of plots, e.g. in UK mortality improvement. But when I go look at it, it's not necessarily supremely persuasive.

UK Mortality improvement with circled putative cohort effect on English side

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

This is a very, very cool paper with a voice I've *never* seen in a scientific paper before, but close to what I myself aspire to in most of my writing.

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

You guys are talking about the end of the world when dozens of insurance companies have COBOL mainframes you could single-handedly migrate if you really are that powerful and things really are moving that fast

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Me before tweet websites: nothing they say on those places matters Me on tweet websites: nothing they say on these places matters, but I'm doing it anyway Me after tweet websites: nothing they say on those places matters

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I know better than to ask at this point

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Poppy's music is really holding up. It'll be playing in grocery stores by the 2040s. Gets a little screamy, but we'll probably be used to that by then.

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

The best thing we can do to honor Charlie Kirk's memory is to elect the sorts of politicians that he loved - moderate centrists who stand up for his treasured values of consensus-building and measured, reasoned common-sense policies.

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Your chattering classes were so preoccupied with whether or not they should, they never stopped to consider whether they could.

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

There's a cliche about having strong opinions, but loosely held. I think the right formulation is *specific* opinions, loosely held. That's basically the definition of a hypothesis. It's an opinion you made specific enough to test, but you know that you don't really know what the outcome will be.

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normality @getnormality.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Telling my business partners that my SQL CASE statement is an AI agent

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