Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 08/05/2025someone on the red line has tried to sell weed to the pope. i guarantee it 000
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 08/05/2025just crashed my puny macbook trying to generate one measly token from llama4 000
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 07/05/2025new favorite poem!! Marge Piercy’s “To be of use”. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57673/... Greek amphoras for wine or oil, Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums but you know they were made to be used. The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.poetryfoundation.orgTo be of useThe people I love the best jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight. 000
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 07/05/2025i love the white sox like my own, but i’m unsure if we should call whatever they do “baseball“ 031
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 07/05/2025disgusting that my phone puts slack as a “productivity” app. be honest. it goes in “social” 020
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 05/03/2025🚨NY has a new frontier model bill🚨 read my thoughts here: www.henryjosephson.com/writing/RAIS...henryjosephson.com NY Introduced Light-Touch Legislation to Keep AI Innovation Responsible! Henry Josephson's personal website. Crosswords, AI Policy, Philosophy 000
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 27/01/2025I'm glad I made it out of high school before gpt3 dropped. 000
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 27/01/2025underrated trick: piping command outputs into `pbcopy` to give to claude 000
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 25/01/2025anthropic probably has a great rationing model rn but just doesn’t have the compute to ship it if i’m hitting 3.5 sonnet usage limits as a pro subscriber… 010
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 14/01/2025office hours might be the thing i’ll miss most about college. you can just chat with world-leading experts in a field one-on-one (because nobody else ever shows up) and they’ll be thrilled to talk with you (because nobody else ever shows up)! 010
Reposted by Henry🔸Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Wrote a long rambling post about why individual AI use isn't bad for the environment substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comIndividual AI use is not bad for the environmentAnd a plea to think seriously about climate change without getting distracted 0196
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 13/01/2025As monday rounds up, let's close tabs and walk through what I've been reading (again): Alex Bores is introducing (modified) SB1047 in NY! bit.ly/4hfFVR9 Not to brag, but I told him to do this months ago: www.henryjosephson.com/writing/NY-S...bit.lyA New York legislator wants to pick up the pieces of the dead California AI billThe new bill being drafted in New York aims to regulate advanced AI systems while addressing concerns with the California bill. 121
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 13/01/2025Quick takes on the new Interim Final Rule on Artificial Intelligence Diffusion: 🧵 120
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 12/01/2025nobody is ever close to the pareto frontier on anything you can almost always just do both 000
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 12/01/2025welp, i only went to the gym bc i hoped ai returns on robotics would lag far enough behind returns on intelligence that i'd still be useful as a thing-picker-upper in twenty years... 000
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 12/01/2025i liked pat spencer before he was cool (i.e. before he won the tewaaraton) 010
Reposted by Henry🔸Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 09/01/2025It turns out you can give Claude instructions in the forms of lines of poetry from Adrienne Rich or TS Eliot and get very thoughtful analysis of empirical papers as a result. 3537
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 07/01/2025NEW GPI WORKING PAPER ON EPISTEMIC FANATICISM JUST DROPPED!!!!!!!! christmas came late globalprioritiesinstitute.org/wp-content/u...globalprioritiesinstitute.org 010
Reposted by Henry🔸NBER @nber.org · 06/01/2025Exploring past episodes of technological disruption in the US labor market, with the goal of learning lessons about the likely future impact of AI, from David J. Deming, Christopher Ong, and Lawrence H. Summers www.nber.org/papers/w33323 12614
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 07/01/2025wow i've been massively undersalting my pasta water. add however much salt you think you need. then triple it 020
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 06/01/2025Also, in news that isn't surprising but is still notable, AI spear-phishing works: www.lesswrong.com/posts/GCHyDK...lesswrong.comHuman study on AI spear phishing campaigns — LessWrongTL;DR: We ran a human subject study on whether language models can successfully spear-phish people. We use AI agents built from GPT-4o and Claude 3.5… 000
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 06/01/2025herbiebradley.substack.com/p/ai-strateg...herbiebradley.substack.comAI Strategy for a New American PresidentWhat can we expect for the next few years of U.S. AI policy? 000
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 06/01/2025Classes start tomorrow, so I had to clear out my tabs. I saved some of the more interesting ones, though! Check em out here: www.henryjosephson.com/writing/Clea...henryjosephson.com Clearing My Tabs Henry Josephson's personal website. Crosswords, AI Policy, Philosophy 000
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 31/12/2024there was one english pope! adrian iv, in the mid-1100s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Ad...en.wikipedia.orgPope Adrian IV - Wikipedia 110
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 30/12/2024thought i found a tool to convert gdoc revision history to a git repo, but it didn't work on my resume :( still super cool, though! github.com/repography/d...github.comGitHub - repography/doc2git: Create a Git repo from your Google Doc revision historyCreate a Git repo from your Google Doc revision history - repography/doc2git 000
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 25/12/2024classic from ozy: if your goals are like “i don’t want to hurt anyone,” “i don’t want to fail,” or “i don’t want to be a burden,” you could better achieve those goals by being dead. don’t have the life goals of dead people! open.substack.com/pub/thingoft...open.substack.comLife Goals of Dead PeopleDon't try to be a corpse 000
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 25/12/2024my father, mother, aunt, uncle, brothers, and i have spent more time arguing over which movie to watch than it would’ve taken to watch the actual movie 110
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 24/12/2024credence 0.35ish that fb74fa99ce78bd62f6f9f24521a4ba5a61454d4d527babfcda9c6cb46ab77235 within a month. credence 0.45ish that f926ffeef043e73e3fb2587319a6b1a0f63357cb6ece7474b751dbfe461cea9f over the same window. 100
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 23/12/2024if i want crazy economic growth, should i go to a place where my money is DUBLIN, or where it grows TRIPOLI? 010
Reposted by Henry🔸Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social · 05/12/2024You can always slide into my DMs with some nice data 061
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 22/12/2024other celebrities you can sing to “eleanor rigby”: - kamala harris - frankenstein’s monster - dwayne “the rock” johnson - scarlett johansson - tracy mcgrady - john paul the second - willard “mitt” romney - pete buttigieg-eg - jonbenet ramsey 000
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 22/12/2024it’s never too early in the morning to be guiteauposting www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4... 110
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 22/12/2024cheyenne: hit peak glory in 1880s ran the largest rail yard west of chicago absolutely dominated the plains now mostly just making bbq xi'an: hit peak glory in 800s ran the largest market west of chang'an absolutely dominated the plains now mostly just making bbq 130
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 22/12/2024kinda crazy that drake was out for 13 hours after taking half a xanax. 1 bar is 1 mg, normal prescriptions apparently range from 0.25 to 3 mg, and this is just for normal anti-anxiety. you’re telling me he took a dose square in the middle of the recommended range and passed out for 13 hours?! 000
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 21/12/2024fwiw, i smashed my friday record yesterday! i think this guy and i are just on the same wavelength 150
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 21/12/2024@evavivalt.bsky.social posted -> i texted it to the gc -> gc emails to tyler -> marginal revolution post! 321
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 21/12/2024MENE MENE; linkedin hath numbered thy applications and finished them. TEKEL; thou art weighed against the leetcode optimal solution and found O(n!). UPHARSIN: thy dream job hath been divided into four contract positions with no benefits, and given unto three remote workers and somebody's nephew. 000
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 21/12/2024okay it turns out egypt is putting theirs in an octagon, which means they’re 1.6x better than us. i get why bob menendez did it now en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oct...en.wikipedia.orgThe Octagon (Egypt) - Wikipedia 000
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 20/12/2024if you're bored this evening and have been wondering (like me) why only utilitarians get to have a robust framework for making moral decisions under epistemic uncertainty, check out philarchive.org/rec/LAZDAD-3philarchive.orgSeth Lazar, Duty and Doubt - PhilArchiveDeontologists have been slow to address decision-making under risk and uncertainty, no doubt because the standard approaches to non-moral decision theory appear superficially similar to consequentiali... 110
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 20/12/2024who looked at the administration of the largest military in the world and said “yknow where this goes? this goes in a giant pentagon” 000
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 20/12/2024It’s been a long time coming, but I’m excited to announce my NYT crossword debut! I hope you like it :) www.nytimes.com/crosswords/g... 7321
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 19/12/2024instead of writing the latex i'm supposed to write for work, i made my website look like latex: www.henryjosephson.comhenryjosephson.comHenry JosephsonHenry Josephson's personal website. Crosswords, AI Policy, Philosophy. 000
Henry🔸 @henryjosephson.com · 18/12/2024why on earth would you ever manually insert line breaks into your webpage 110