Turnip Shepherd

mechanism design with punk characteristics

@NunoSempere @deanwball @herbiebradley +

@deanwball @herbiebradley link?

I think my personal singularity happened last night when I realized, while talking to AI, that I would probably need to purchase dedicated AI-use liability insurance for my contracting entity.

Of course thats your contention. You’re just a CS founder larping as a scientist. “AI is a new paradigm shift”, you just skimmed Kuhn right? You’ll be talking about that until next week when you discover Popper, and then you’ll be talking about how RL agents can speed run the demarcation problem. After you fail to raise your Series A in a year you’ll discover Galison too late and realize the shallow trade zone is what is really killing “AI for Science”, to the extent that “AI for Science” is even coherent as a scientific field. -- From my new post, where I take a satirical look at how shallow notions of how science works lead to silly claims from startups and companies building in AI for Science republicofscience.substack.com/p/an-aesthetic…

@edelwax what’s this from?

Folks, we need some AGI-ready institutions. Can you make them by next week?

wang huning was the Tocqueville of the 1980’s

@deanwball would that there were a fund aimed at capitalizing on superior situational awareness

there are so many cheap stocks right now really kicking myself for having that whole "I do not actively trade stocks in companies I write about or could foreseeably write about in the future" policy

ok there’s gotta be a paper on capital depth and military dev

on multicultural recruitment under constraints

kreta robota

elite anglosphere politics since 1651

@BenBajarin what’s the data source/origin here?

Nugget from a survey of 149 senior data-center/energy professionals. "44% indicate average quoted utility wait times of 4 years"

high status pollsters look into the assumptions prior to using max diff on everything challenge: impossible

much is said about falsificationism, whether t tests are truly needed in science, etc. in reality, science is applying calculus to concepts

the Leontief-Rickover hidden tradition of economics

No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface, there come interludes of lonely power when the course of humankind depends upon the relatively simple actions of single individuals

The bull pitch for abundance is that it’s trying to recast the social contract to be more Chinese

🛑 firms-as-organisms ✅ organisms-as-firms

prompting style: Rumsfeldian

a corollary of “you can just do things” is “things must be done”

psychologically load bearing burrito

language model kata