Jeffrey M Epstein

I think this is the longest continuous stretch of time for which I've ever felt this good about my job

An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

What kind of questions do you have in mind here (genuinely asking)?

Whenever I sit down to write a great novel, I make sure to stick to standard syntax

I tried to do what we call, if I may be so bold, a "conceptual scoop"!!

Pls read my story on the most overlooked form of extreme confinement of farmed animals—the routine caging of millions of dairy calves in tiny crates less than 1/10 the size of a parking spot.

It's not about veal! (🧵)

Unfortunately I can tell you that he is 100% thinking about the extended Ender’s Game universe thing about “the old joke: imagine what someone smarter than you would do, and then do it”. So he’s also imagining himself as a child soldier when he does this.

Now that you know what it is, maybe you can sand it off, or give it to a museum. Those are actions.

There’s also the 2.5th order question of whether when you as a person who doesn’t have to steal from Whole Foods do it anyway, are you more “sticking it to Bezos” or “making it more likely they go the Walgreens route and hire armed security guards to follow people who look like they could be poor”?

There are contributions from both points of view, so on the whole...yes!

Largely that it's fun to talk about these things with other people who are interested in them, and that that can be useful for sharpening our own understandings. Of course it's also good to read what's been written (I have read large parts of that book).

Thoroughly yes, conclusively perhaps not

This is the right kind of question I think - "credences" shouldn't be fundamental objects in your theory

Just a quick clarification q, what does it mean to observe a probability? 😇

Also in many cases the only way people check if it went where they wanted is by asking the train

Alabama set to execute man who did not kill anyone Unless Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey intervenes, Charles “Sonny” Burton, 75, will be executed Thursday. He is among thousands in America convicted under a controversial felony murder law.

Sonny Burton is set to be executed by the state of Alabama on Thursday. There is a direct line between a government that murders its own citizens and the devaluing of life abroad. The sin has always started at home.

An extended analogy of writing to baking bread followed.

Overheard at coffee shop: “This is now the fourth time I’m writing this text, and I’ll probably write it two more times.” Apparently some people in this city are still doing things right.

I'm here to shut up and calculate. And I'm all out of calculate. 😎

Are either of you familiar with Zurek's Quantum Darwinism stuff? Can't remember if you were involved in the kerfuffle about whether or not that is just Everett last week 😂

I'd be so sad if it turned out that a collapse theory was true. So messy and unpleasant.

There's a lot of stimulating discussion in this collection. I read some of it after reading Wallace's book. I think a bunch of the essays are available elsewhere online. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

I do think the connection can be made, but I think to do it right requires more engagement with philosophy of mind than you typically see in discussions among physicists. (So for instance I think that the decision-theoretic approach of Deutsch and Wallace is not really conclusive.)

Agreed that this is the main problem. Non-unitary solutions of the MP let us make this connection by imagining, as we tend to classically, that minds ride around on physical objects. This breaks down in MW, so it remains to make the connection as convincing as the classical connection.

As a matter of fact, I *would* like junior academics who use ai to keep their mouths shut!

Saw a bus stop ad advertising some ai for business thing, and the scenario was a guy with an ice cream store asking “what were our most popular flavors this month?” Have these people not heard of excel?

my first book (2020) was about online neonazis and my second book (2024) was about christian theocrats. they gained strength, voltronned and became a government. my third book (2027) is going to be a history of notable sandwiches so i hope this means we will be governed by sandwichocracy

as a member of the canadian diaspora what aspect of canadian identity should I get weird about

"I use sonnet" "I use haiku" name one poet bro