Boosting this live tweeting of the excellent Emily Adlai’s new book to #philsci #philsky #quantum – thanks @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social for this public service! :)

Not at all what I'm saying. It is possible to skip college and learn calculus for $49/month.

My system prompt: bsky.app/profile/jopp...

Excited to announce I'm recruiting for my first two Postdoctoral Research Associates! These 5-year positions will allow the holders to dive into applying quantum foundations to understand and develop quantum advantage!

I was responding to a talk by philosopher of physics David Albert (DA), in which he expressed dissatisfaction with various approaches to reconciling the asymmetry of causation with fundamental physics. He was skeptical that causal models could help, but ended by inviting me to say more about this.

Starter pack! Philosophy and physics of time: go.bsky.app/QgoUzVr

If you ever dreamed of giving me money I have great news. We're at $10k, hoping to get to $20k manifund.org/projects/vir...

Currently looking for a long-term home in AI alignment (or general rat/EA) sphere to continue this line of work docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Cool, I have 85 "real" followers here. Meaning followers I follow back. (sorry in case I don't follow you back, it's just that I suspect your posts would annoy me)

PSA: The number of days in February is divisible by 7

📸Quantum photo This photo was taken with a DIY dual pinhole lens. The holes are close enough to reproduce Young’s double-slit experiment, demonstrating #light wave-particle duality. Look closely at the sun on the top right to see the characteristic interference patterns. #Blueskyartshow

Never hold accuracy-dominated credences Conditionalize on new evidence Maximixe expected utility

Gauging intuitions (just asking questions): More worrisome a) Lifelong expression of good values suppressed for political gain b) Lifelong expression of bad values suppressed for popular image

Ayahuasca users on its effects: (from the ACX survey, www.astralcodexten.com/p/acx-survey... )

Guys, what's your outline-to-polished-text-ratio?

Okcupid really needs four axes here. I'm a progressive centrist moderate that is into leftist aesthetics.

New values just dropped sapplyvalues.github.io/results.html...

We aren’t actually richer at all when you control for our ability to acquire more and better goods/services.

More books like these?

Stuck on bluesky until I swipe back from an image and accidently leave the website. May they never fix this feature.

Keep doing things you're excited about, or you'll burn out

I don't want to diminish the severity of the LA wildfires or anything, however,

engaging in behavior with dramatic negative externalities: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! when those externalities are partly internalized: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

the rules for being a good naturalist are that if your explanation appeals to something that doesn't intuitively seem like ordinary physical contact between objects, it's magical bullshit, but physics is allowed to have whatever magical bullshit it wants and that's cool

Who's losing on immigration/emigration of skilled workers? And if it is the case that anyone is losing, what is the best case that can be made for the bad outweighing the good?

It's a Wonderful Life is very pro-capitalist (laudatory)

Settle this for me: Fiction books, finish in one sitting or spread over days?

My brother, a one-boxer, does not make eye contact with drivers when crossing the street.

Apparently it is about wanting to be a plant?

Why is there something and not nothing isn't the big question. Why that something is self-referential is the big question.

Now this--this is an insult

epistemic anti-motivation

this post aged poorly. i re-subscribed to Claude yesterday, and it turns out short fiction has been thoroughly solved

A boy raised by scientists and accepted into a magical school is a now a manga?! www.reddit.com/r/HPMOR/comm...

My contribution to the debate (I'm definitely John Lennon in the scenario)

At least it is more illuminating to think about why minds are not like computers than it is to think about why they are not like steam engines.

What's that feeling called, of being distracted by time passing

How I know that I am bad at explaining ideas is that I sometimes tell people about en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-br... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introsp... and it fails to completely upend how they see themselves and others.

"close bluesky on laptop open bluesky on phone" oh no

What a fucking rockstar

i read too many pdfs. see, it'd be fine if i just downloaded them, but i actually go ahead and read them like a shameless man. and therein lies the problem.

Two years ago the e-book was $70 😤 But I was determined to read the book 💪 Patiently I waited 🧘‍♂️ until finally ❗ it showed up on annas-archive 🙌

What if you start getting the too much caffeine headache before the will to live kicks in?

People often complain about companies' services, and sometimes understandably so. But to get an accurate view of this matter, it's important to zoom out. And if we do that, we see companies remarkably reliably providing goods and services - everything from basic food to travel to distant countries

(in their replies, creepy smile) You know, if you followed me back this wouldn't be a parasocial interaction

Three steps to equivalence proofs: 1. If (forward implication) 2. Only if (reverse implication) 3. If only (realize it's false)

Whenever I see MGMT it is 50/50 whether I will read it as Management or Meenage Gutant Minja Turtles.

First thing you need to know about me is that