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Tristan Sharp

@tristanasharp.bsky.social
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Physicist, computer scientist, new entrepreneur, wanting to make good things for people.

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The majority (63%) of citizens trust scientists. Only 5% distrust scientists. There is less trust for politicized topics (climate science) and of government or business scientists It's critical to support science at universities, where people trust the results www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Francis Su @mathyawp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When science is turned into an exploitative spectacle: francissu.substack.com/p/love-of-hu...
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Love of Humanity Is Not Enough
The OpenAI race on Navier-Stokes exposes the gap between loving humanity and loving your neighbor
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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...
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Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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Nigel Goldenfeld @nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
tinyurl.com/42shwbsx We observe the development of a division of labor from simple selfish behavior and communication between the members of the system. The role of active information is central to achieving this heterogeneous population structure.
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James @nonzerosum.games · 13/07/2026
I'm honoured to be illustrating a book! Game Theorist and recent podcast guest Professor Vincent Knight asked me to provide illustrations (some new and some from the site for his Game Theory textbook. For more links and our podcast interview visit
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VINCENT KNIGHT
~ our first podcast guest ~
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James @nonzerosum.games · 30/06/2026
The Ultimatum Game tests how much we're willing to punish unfairness at a cost to ourselves... nonzerosum.games/ult... #GameTheory #Fairness #Economics #Psychology
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THE ULTIMATUM GAME
Take-it-or-leave-it bargaining scenario in game theory, exploring fairness, rejection, and subgame perfection.
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Tyler Nordgren @spaceart.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Organ Pipe Cactus commissioned me to design this poster to celebrate their new dark sky status. www.spacearttravelbureau.com #art #spaceart #astronomy
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Useful context.
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Tristan Sharp @tristanasharp.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Woah! 💪♥️☮️🌎 Let's go! "The culture of power and the civilization of love."
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Tristan Sharp @tristanasharp.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A break from social media can allow you to zoom out and reflect on what's actually important. Practical human value disappearing is a big deal, and we need to address it much more strongly.
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Tristan Sharp @tristanasharp.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Did you know that at the very top of the CA Constitution, literally in Article 1 Sec 1, is people's unalienable right to privacy? Do big tech companies sometimes bend the rules on this important part of human dignity? New! DROP will partly help. Fill it out to push data brokers to drop your data.
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Tristan Sharp @tristanasharp.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
youtube.com/shorts/lJa8U... I've regularly gone to physics conferences and seen great panel discussions... This one looks a bit different.
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David Bohm’s Terrifying Theory of Consciousness
YouTube video by ALiveMind
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Tristan Sharp @tristanasharp.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
"The question is whether [the AI trajectory happens]... within shared frameworks of accountability, transparency, and collective security, or within a fragmented environment defined by mistrust and competitive escalation. ... may teach... security without cooperation creates chronic instability."
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Apple and Google are rolling out end-to-end encrypted RCS between iPhone and Android. Billions get instant security gains — and the "interoperability undermines security" argument both companies pushed for years just got much harder to defend, writes Mallory Knodel.
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Apple-Google Encrypted RCS Buries the Interoperability vs. Security Myth
The harder work of making strong E2EE interoperable across all messaging still lies ahead, writes Mallory Knodel.
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Tristan Sharp @tristanasharp.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I'm experimenting with #Briar. Add me? briar://ady4vu66ctpmwvwmzk3cfcexbibomdgdh7as2y7n55upk5mapnxfo It's one of the new technologies, really nicely engineered, to connect people directly. x.com/BriarApp
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Tristan Sharp @tristanasharp.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Google Gemini will sometimes mention my brilliant intuition and my incredible sharpness, when I ask a random science question. So yeah there you go.
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Tristan Sharp @tristanasharp.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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There May Be NO Theory of Everything... Oops
YouTube video by Curt Jaimungal
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NPR @npr.org · 14/05/2026
They're calling it the "last titan" of Thailand. The sauropod — an herbivore with a long neck and tail — comes from the late Early Cretaceous period, some 100 to 120 million years ago. n.pr/4uun38p
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Researchers unearth Southeast Asia's largest dinosaur
They're calling it the "last titan" of Thailand. The sauropod — an herbivore with a long neck and tail — comes from the late Early Cretaceous period, some 100 to 120 million years ago.
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Tristan Sharp @tristanasharp.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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The Measurement Problem Is Holding Physics Back
YouTube video by Curt Jaimungal
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Tristan Sharp @tristanasharp.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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You Don't Know Where or When You Are. Here's Why
YouTube video by Curt Jaimungal
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Nigel Goldenfeld @nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
A very concise and informative thread on the origin of the eukaryotic cell. Focus is membrane traffic. Includes a surprising hypothesis and prediction, subsequently verified. Recommend the review too!
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Tristan Sharp @tristanasharp.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Especially since there are disparate competing incentives in these fields, we must demand that disclosures are made responsibly. research.google/blog/safegua... 'Variants of Responsible Disclosure... have been adopted as an international standard ISO/IEC 29147:2018.'
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Safeguarding cryptocurrency by disclosing quantum vulnerabilities responsibly
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Tristan Sharp @tristanasharp.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Vibe coders have known it, and now maybe politicians are learning it. You ask AI, you put its plan into action, and then you realize. Its optimistic style misled you. It didn't have the required context, it wasn't provided the precise goals, it created incorrect deductions and assumptions.
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I'm a big fan of embedding pro-social design principles in technology. We have found that adding a "misleading count" button to a social media platform reduces the likelihood people will share false information by 25% We could make healthier technology: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
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The Misleading count: an identity-based intervention to counter partisan misinformation sharing
Abstract. Interventions to counter misinformation are often less effective for polarizing content on social media platforms. We sought to overcome this lim
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Algorithmic content on X increases #polarization But downranking content that expresses partisan animosity or antidemocratic attitudes significantly reduces affective polarization equivalent "to 3 years of change in United States affective polarization" www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Tristan Sharp @tristanasharp.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
A really nice aspiration: to recover and improve on that experience, from the time that the platform worked best for my network of colleagues.
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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Newcastle lost 3-2. My socks were lucky for the other team.
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Tristan Sharp @tristanasharp.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Wow! It's like magic!
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Physghoul 👻 🎃 @physgal.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Exciting new paper from one of my @sfuphysics.bsky.social colleagues. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ communities.springernature.com/posts/a-cosm...
Inhomogeneities in the distribution of matter induced by magnetic fields at the time of recombination, as seen in magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations performed in JCAP 03 (2025) 012. Image credit: Karsten Jedamzik.
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C. Thi Nguyen @add-hawk.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Anyway: here's to my students. They took it seriously, they argued it out, and they came up with something that I doubted at first, but ended admiring more than any system I've designed on my own.
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Tristan Sharp @tristanasharp.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Raise their salary, de-incentivize polarization, roll back money in politics, add common-sense reforms to House power structure. (Or else. Or else.) I see tech platforms "popularity" mechanics as a root cause and a potential part of the solution.
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Tristan Sharp @tristanasharp.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Cool article, "not whether LLMs can “do science” but how they get enrolled within a scientific system whose goals have already been displaced..." Also suggesting that the needed realignment in science would likely come from proactive new leaders.
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Tristan Sharp @tristanasharp.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
@nonzerosumjames.bsky.social It's great what you're doing here!
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Tristan Sharp @tristanasharp.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
For anyone who has looked up at night recently.
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Tristan Sharp @tristanasharp.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
" Senate voted 99-1 against an effort to block AI laws this year... "Congress can’t fail to create real safeguards and then block the states from stepping up," - North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson Important news now: Executive Order incoming. www.reuters.com/world/trump-...
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Trump to issue order creating national AI rule
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he would sign an executive order this week that he said would create a single national rule for artificial intelligence, which the industry has said is neces...
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Tristan Sharp @tristanasharp.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
I found interesting about privacy in CA: Constitution of the State of California, at the very top, the first and second sentence of Article I: All people... have inalienable rights. Among these are... pursuing and obtaining safety, happiness, and privacy. - Revised 1974
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Tristan Sharp @tristanasharp.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
😆 Finding these is fun.
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Verbringer Bort @victorolosaurus.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
such a help for research
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Tristan Sharp @tristanasharp.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Reclaim it - If everyday you stress yourself about the condition of its home, but you feel that the symbol was given up to other groups, reclaim it. Display it, take responsibility as being part of it and its flaws, if you are going to effectively help the community steer its future
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Tristan Sharp @tristanasharp.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Poincaré, from a time (1905) that physicists might vex about the whole project. www.gutenberg.org/files/37157/... 306 pages starting with "The very possibility of mathematical science seems an insoluble contradiction."
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Solar power made up 9.7% of US electricity this September, up from 7.6% last year Over the last twelve months, solar has made up 8.3% of US electricity, a record high!
A graph of solar's share of US electricity generation
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Tristan Sharp @tristanasharp.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
" New polling continues to show strong, bipartisan opposition to AI preemption. A national YouGov/Institute for Family Studies poll found Americans oppose adding preemption to the NDAA by 3-to-1... with majorities across party lines, income levels, and age groups. mailchi.mp/ari/nov2025u...
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The Fight Against AI Law Preemption
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Tristan Sharp @tristanasharp.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I get to share that we're hiring. These are key roles related to FPGA at MemComputing. www.linkedin.com/posts/memcom...
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#hiring #fpga #hardwareengineering #computearchitecture #aiinfrastructure | MemComputing, Inc.
We’re hiring. We’ve been working quietly on new compute architectures designed for the next era of AI performance and efficiency. As our work accelerates, we’re expanding our engineering team in San ...
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Manoj Mate @manojmate.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Important piece by @leedrutman.bsky.social on Jared Golden's decision not to run again and how it signals the need for systemic reforms to address the two party "doom loop."
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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine @nationalacademies.org · 05/11/2025
#SocialMedia can distort #PublicOpinion, causing issues for individuals and society. Join us November 13 to hear Jay Van Bavel, PhD discuss how modern technology interacts with human #psychology to create a “funhouse mirror” version of public opinion: ow.ly/7iF050XntZv
"Beware the Funhouse Mirror: How Social Media Misleads Us about Public Opinion, an event on November 13 from 5 to 6:30 PM Eastern Time."
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Tristan Sharp @tristanasharp.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/p... "In the split second of horror when a second hijacked plane hit the World Trade Center in New York, he... avenge the al Qaeda-orchestrated attacks and to enforce US power throughout the Middle East with a neo-conservative doctrine of regime change and pre-emptive war." ☹️☮️
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Dick Cheney, influential Republican vice president to George W. Bush, dies | CNN Politics
Dick Cheney, America’s most powerful modern vice president and chief architect of the “war on terror,” who helped lead the country into the ill-fated Iraq war on faulty assumptions, has died, accordin...
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Tristan Sharp @tristanasharp.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Some of the most exciting updates, towards a healthier social media! Little local changes can lead to a flourishing ecology of such systems. The best news in a while! Let's hope that a better social media can save the world. I advise to keep innovating boldly and continue to be welcoming!
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Nigel Goldenfeld @nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
My extreme interest in this work arises out of my own research (with Carl Woese) to try and understand the evolution, as opposed to the assembly, of the ribosome. In particular the evidence for horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of the genetic code guava.physics.ucsd.edu/~nigel/REPRI...
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Tristan Sharp @tristanasharp.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Old: Republican-Democrat New: Accelerationist-Skeptic-Safetyist Please read this, about how they're finding common ground, with survival at stake. Hallelujah, a glimmer of hope. Thank you, Lam Tran.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
The AI boom has crystallized feelings of anxiety in the public sphere, writes Lam Tran, yet recent policy developments have revealed the potential of an unlikely coalition to safeguard the public interest in AI.
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The Age of AI Anxiety — and the Hope of Democratic Resistance | TechPolicy.Press
Amid the AI frenzy, one sentiment has crystallized across the public sphere: anxiety, writes Lam Tran.
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