Physicist (noneq stat phys), interested in writing, socialism, history, other stuff to distract me from work. he/him. Math isn't real. Planaria dad.
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28 Jul 2017
Summary of thread: Any form of capitalism in the global North is incommensurate with non-exploitative relations betn global North and South.
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Jun 11
The story of Icarus provides us with a valuable lesson: never fuck up real bad
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Jun 3
this is an interesting point in the new ted chiang piece – no one really claims that alphafold is conscious, or that sora or midjourney or dall-e are conscious
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May 29
pronouncing gen ai like forrest gump
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The BBC deciding to have AI Gandhi (!!!) on their panel finally disproves Gandhi's response: it would not be a good idea to give civilisation to these idiots.
Tonight Question Time features an imagined AI panel made up of historical figures who shaped the modern world
Watch the #bbcqt AI special now on @BBCiPlayer and @BBCNews to see what our REAL panel have to say on AI, including how it can blur the lines between reality and fakery
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May 27
Me causa mucha gracia la idea de que una institución con dos milenios encima de sentarse a pensar y escribir (entre otras cosas) va a necesitar una IA. El LLM de la Iglesia es la escuela de cuadros del Vaticano pero el ladrón siempre ve a todos de su condición.
May 26
In my new post, I argue that the first papal encyclical *on* AI is also the first papal encyclical substantially *by* AI.
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15 Jul 2022
someone said they were a ‘cloud architect’, for a moment i imagined the most incredible job in the world before i realized they mean like software
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Physics fraud compared to fraud and junk science in the social and behavioral sciences
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May 23
Excuse me, I think there’s been a mistake, I need to speak with the manager. I was supposed to be part of the in-group the law protects but does not bind, not the out-group it binds but does not protect.
May 23
Feeling robbed of my path to citizenship right now after grinding a PhD and contributing to foundational AI computing technologies for the United States for the past ~ 10 years.
Feels like robbing top and technologists like me of the opportunity to achieve the American Dream.
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I finally watched this and it contains a number of mistakes.
Firstly, let me say what Sabine gets right. When she explains known physics, her explanations are clear, concise and correct.
But even she starts talking about FTL, mistaken, motivated reasoning creeps in... 🧵
May 20
I am optimistic that we will one day make contact to extraterrestrials because I don't think that the speed of light is a fundamental limit. Here I explain why and I have a brief summary below.
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backwards from. In any case, this is a radical departure from how we generally think of covariance in physics. Which is fine, but it should be clear that we are now giving up *causality* to preserve *locality*. A crazy bargain.
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I'm totally in favour of work on what you like, be stubborn, etc. But if a theory breaks with assumptions that have worked for a century, and is as yet unformed with nothing concrete, it's fringe not because physicists are a closed-minded clique, but because of those reasons.
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