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Brandon Music

@BrandonMusicKy

Spade in the left hand, telescope in the right hand. Bending the world with hard work and love. RIP Dad. RIP Mamaw Joyce. Attorney and Legal AI systems engineer

Grayson, KY Katılım Nisan 2009
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𝕋𝕒𝕧𝕚@tavi_chocochip·
I find it weird that Elon didn't mention NASA's Artemis II mission at all, despite posting quite a lot on other topics. He keeps saying space exploration is super-important to him. So does he really care about human missions to space, or is it only when it's a SpaceX program?
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Charlie Savage
Charlie Savage@charlie_savage·
New memo by Trump's 36-year-old OLC chief, Elliot Gaiser, says Congress's Constitutional power to make laws necessary & proper to regulate how the govt works is just a power to "assist" the president--so laws are valid if they increase Trump's power but not if they restrict it.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson@neiltyson·
Godspeed Artemis II April 1, 2026 -- 18:35 EDT
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Brandon Music@BrandonMusicKy·
@NOELreports If Russia would withdraw from the Donbas region it would create prospects for a settlement and an end to hostilities .
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❗️Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov says a withdrawal of Ukrainian forces from Donbas would create prospects for a settlement and an end to hostilities. #Russia
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John Bresnahan
John Bresnahan@bresreports·
Just a stunning executive order from Trump on voting by mail. The US Postal Service will monitor who gets mail-in ballots for federal elections & who mails them in
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Brandon Music@BrandonMusicKy·
@Timodc As long they can find 11,000 in Ga, would that be acceptable?
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Brandon Music@BrandonMusicKy·
@deanwball most systems have trained on copyrighted data. I love AI, but you paint with such a broad brush. And, many of those who are argue that it's world changing, don't place it in the context of the real world, but their own pockets. It has some massive "web 3" "crypto bros" energy.
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Dean W. Ball
Dean W. Ball@deanwball·
My theory about why so many on the left remain in denial about AI is that their worldview rests on a load-bearing notion of “the tech industry” as being composed of vapid morons whose accomplishments will always be superficial, never “real,” always based on some grand theft. With social media and search, the theft was manipulation of people’s minds. With Amazon it was worker exploitation. With Apple, it was a mix of these. In the left retelling of the story, no value whatsoever was created from these technologies. All a trick. With AI the “grand theft” in the telling of the left is the use of copyright-protected data in pre-training. This one is a particularly dangerous mindworm for them, since they identify with the “artists and writers” from whom they imagine this training data was “stolen.” This is why things like “mode collapse” from synthetic data, stochastic parrotry, “it can only mimic things it has seen on the web” and similar are so core to the argument for the left: it supports the notion of “tech bro” thieves—who lest we forget, and they never will let us, have no “liberal arts” training!—continuing their unbroken string of robberies. Of course the “grand theft” notion is an old motif on the left, relating as it does to a zero-sum mindset about economics, business, and growth that is. more traditionally associated with the left, though the lines have always been blurry, since the zero-sum mindset is above all else a *human* fallacy and thus a useful tactic in mass politics of all valences. The lines have become especially blurry lately, as has been widely observed. Anyway, the notion that AI *is* a genuinely world-changing technology, that it can “go beyond” its “stolen” training data, breaks this load-bearing conception of the tech industry as vapid and superficial and, more importantly, of the people within it as blood-sucking thieves.
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Narrator: And none of them would answer the question of whether they use the models. I’ve never seen rightists in this much denial about AI. I wonder why it’s a left-wing thing to bury your head in the sand this much.

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Not Dan Hurley
Not Dan Hurley@NotDanHurley·
Someone had to do it.
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brian bayes@bkb29JD·
Duke loses in the best fashion. Suck it Duke
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Big Brain AI
Big Brain AI@realBigBrainAI·
Marc Andreessen says raw intelligence might be the worst qualification for leadership — and it changes everything about how we should think about AI. "If the leader is more than one standard deviation of IQ away from the followers, it's a real problem." Andreessen points to the US military, one of the earliest and most rigorous adopters of IQ testing, as the source of this insight. They slot people into specialties and leadership roles based on IQ scores. And over the years, they kept seeing the same pattern. A leader who is significantly less intelligent than their people struggles to model how those people think. That part is intuitive. But the reverse turns out to be equally true. "It's actually very hard for very smart people to model the internal thought processes of even moderately smart people." A leader who is two standard deviations above the norm of the organisation they're running also loses theory of mind, that ability to hold an accurate model of what's happening inside someone else's head. The gap is too wide in both directions. Andreessen then takes this to its logical conclusion: "If you had a person or a machine that had a thousand IQ or something like it, its understanding of reality would be so alien to the people or the things that it was managing that it wouldn't even be able to connect in any sort of realistic way." An AI that vastly outthinks every human in the room isn't positioned to lead those humans. It's positioned to be completely incomprehensible to them. Leadership has never really been an intelligence problem. It's a connection problem. And no amount of raw intelligence closes that gap — past a certain point, it only widens it. The world will not be run by the smartest thing in the room for a long time. Maybe ever.
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Patrick Collison
Patrick Collison@patrickc·
Offhand — * Vacillation on masks, with abundant motivated reasoning in every case. * Promulgation of made-up thresholds with no evidentiary basis (e.g. 6 feet). * Authoritarian delight in nanny state intrusiveness (policing the beach and such). * 180 on many issues around BLM. * Lack of effective response from science funding bodies. * Denial of aerosolized transmission. * Changing of trial readouts so that they’d occur after the election. (Confirmed to me by senior OWS officials.) * Crazy criteria for vaccine distribution. * Adamant insistence on vaccine efficacy beyond what was supported by data. * Almost complete lack of follow-through on OWS (on pan-variant vaccines). I’m sure there are more, but those are the ones that stick out.
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Conor Friedersdorf
Conor Friedersdorf@conor64·
A question for everyone: survey data suggests that by the end of the Covid-19 emergency trust in public health institutions had decreased significantly. If you are among the people who reacted that way, why specifically? I'm hoping for long, diverse, individualized answers.
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Brandon Music@BrandonMusicKy·
This is pretty dope. I won't lie.
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Brandon Music@BrandonMusicKy·
@MadamSavvy @AaronParnas You know when you look outside to see if it’s raining, that’s doesn’t mean that’s all the rain there has been during the storm. Seriously, this is just terrible reasoning.
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Savvy ( ˶ˆ꒳ˆ˵ )@MadamSavvy·
lets be generous and give you 15 million total. Actually, lets do 20 million because im such a nice person. there are 341,000,000 roughly in the USA. That would be rougly 5.9%~ of the population. but you didn't have 20 million. which means you didn't even get what I said. And if we are to believe in your love of democracy, then that means you do not hold a majority view...and not nearly enough turned out to impact anything. Everyone else was busy working or enjoying weather. maybe offer them more than 20 bucks next time~
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Aaron Parnas
Aaron Parnas@AaronParnas·
NEW: Organizers have confirmed to me that more than 8 million people attended today’s no Kings Day protest—one of the largest ever.
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Brandon Music@BrandonMusicKy·
@MobiusDick @elonmusk There is corruption in the current government. The invisble hand is a pimp a hand without regulation. Any idea to the contrary, is just ignorance of the fact that human beings are greedy, and captialism does succeed without regulation.
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@MobiusDick
@MobiusDick@MobiusDick·
@elonmusk Except we don’t have a free-market. We have people that use the government to oppose the efficient honing by Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand, and use Government to enrich themselves against market forces. We need a Separation of Business & State and an end to PACs
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Brandon Music@BrandonMusicKy·
@jdcrowley @elonmusk He's a dork. simple as that. He got stuffed into a lot of lockers as a kid. And he's constantly shoving praise and success in our faces, in a vain attempt to mask his insecurities.
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Josh Crowley (sp?)
Josh Crowley (sp?)@jdcrowley·
@elonmusk You are one of the dumbest people alive and the reason you hate the left is because we can all tell. The reason you’ve embraced the right is because you’re deeply insecure and need an audience who’ll give you the praise you’re so desperate for. Pathetic lol.
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Brandon Music@BrandonMusicKy·
@matloff @elonmusk There is no "winning" the "race". There is no race. It's as technological advancement--it's a story that's repeated itself in many different forms over time. ONly those with a vested financial interest in the area, think its a race, or they are drinking the kool aid.
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