Shea Balish
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@SheaBalish
Once introduced as “defender of the null hypothesis”. Building: @curv_ai Writing: @deepdebates
A friend of mine had her embryos screened by Herasight and they found one with an IQ score in the 99.99th percentile
Facts It's great that Jeff Bezos thinks this way, because too many people who don't make money think that giving money to the government will solve a lot of their problems. They think these government programs are the answer, and it's clearly not. You can look at the federal level or at the state level, and you will see that a lot of government programs are simply waste.
Some thoughts on evolutionary psychology—in particular sex differences in standards of attractiveness. whyevolutionistrue.com/2026/05/18/bea…
Decision making was the bottleneck all along. Productivity is the rate at which you make open-ended decisions, the rate at which you reduce future paths.
Here is the specific link to our paper with Eunice Yiu, Shiry Ginosar and Kelsey Allen, how to construct causal models through intrinsically motivated action, something kids do and LLMs don't. The whole issue on world models is very much worth reading. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/article/3…
Dalhousie University (@DalhousieU) is hiring a tenure-stream Assistant Professor in Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture "This position is designated to candidates who self-identify as members of one or more of the following groups: Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island (especially Mi’kmaq), persons of Black/African descent (especially African Nova Scotians), members of other racialized groups, persons with disabilities, women, and persons identifying as members of 2SLGBTQIA+ communities."
Which Canadian city should host the new international defence bank? ctvnews.ca/politics/artic…
