i think classical liberal values are, on balance, good

I LOVE AUTOMATIC REMOTE BACKUPS

someone on the red line has tried to sell weed to the pope. i guarantee it

just crashed my puny macbook trying to generate one measly token from llama4

new favorite poem!! Marge Piercy’s “To be of use”. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57673/... Greek amphoras for wine or oil, Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums but you know they were made to be used. The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

i love the white sox like my own, but i’m unsure if we should call whatever they do “baseball“

disgusting that my phone puts slack as a “productivity” app. be honest. it goes in “social”

all my homies hate negatively-valenced conscious states

the unicorn whisperer... the feel-good movie of the year.

trying to download a 6 GB csv

🚨NY has a new frontier model bill🚨 read my thoughts here: www.henryjosephson.com/writing/RAIS...

beware the shortest path between two points

I'm glad I made it out of high school before gpt3 dropped.

underrated trick: piping command outputs into `pbcopy` to give to claude

anthropic probably has a great rationing model rn but just doesn’t have the compute to ship it if i’m hitting 3.5 sonnet usage limits as a pro subscriber…

office hours might be the thing i’ll miss most about college. you can just chat with world-leading experts in a field one-on-one (because nobody else ever shows up) and they’ll be thrilled to talk with you (because nobody else ever shows up)!

Wrote a long rambling post about why individual AI use isn't bad for the environment substack.com/home/post/p-...

As monday rounds up, let's close tabs and walk through what I've been reading (again): Alex Bores is introducing (modified) SB1047 in NY! bit.ly/4hfFVR9 Not to brag, but I told him to do this months ago: www.henryjosephson.com/writing/NY-S...

Quick takes on the new Interim Final Rule on Artificial Intelligence Diffusion: 🧵

nobody is ever close to the pareto frontier on anything you can almost always just do both

welp, i only went to the gym bc i hoped ai returns on robotics would lag far enough behind returns on intelligence that i'd still be useful as a thing-picker-upper in twenty years...

i liked pat spencer before he was cool (i.e. before he won the tewaaraton)

It turns out you can give Claude instructions in the forms of lines of poetry from Adrienne Rich or TS Eliot and get very thoughtful analysis of empirical papers as a result.

NEW GPI WORKING PAPER ON EPISTEMIC FANATICISM JUST DROPPED!!!!!!!! christmas came late globalprioritiesinstitute.org/wp-content/u...

Exploring past episodes of technological disruption in the US labor market, with the goal of learning lessons about the likely future impact of AI, from David J. Deming, Christopher Ong, and Lawrence H. Summers https://www.nber.org/papers/w33323

wow i've been massively undersalting my pasta water. add however much salt you think you need. then triple it

Also, in news that isn't surprising but is still notable, AI spear-phishing works: www.lesswrong.com/posts/GCHyDK...

Classes start tomorrow, so I had to clear out my tabs. I saved some of the more interesting ones, though! Check em out here: www.henryjosephson.com/writing/Clea...

nixon in china but by lin-manuel miranda

there was one english pope! adrian iv, in the mid-1100s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Ad...

thought i found a tool to convert gdoc revision history to a git repo, but it didn't work on my resume :( still super cool, though! github.com/repography/d...

classic from ozy: if your goals are like “i don’t want to hurt anyone,” “i don’t want to fail,” or “i don’t want to be a burden,” you could better achieve those goals by being dead. don’t have the life goals of dead people! open.substack.com/pub/thingoft...

my father, mother, aunt, uncle, brothers, and i have spent more time arguing over which movie to watch than it would’ve taken to watch the actual movie

credence 0.35ish that fb74fa99ce78bd62f6f9f24521a4ba5a61454d4d527babfcda9c6cb46ab77235 within a month. credence 0.45ish that f926ffeef043e73e3fb2587319a6b1a0f63357cb6ece7474b751dbfe461cea9f over the same window.

if i want crazy economic growth, should i go to a place where my money is DUBLIN, or where it grows TRIPOLI?

You can always slide into my DMs with some nice data

other celebrities you can sing to “eleanor rigby”: - kamala harris - frankenstein’s monster - dwayne “the rock” johnson - scarlett johansson - tracy mcgrady - john paul the second - willard “mitt” romney - pete buttigieg-eg - jonbenet ramsey

it’s never too early in the morning to be guiteauposting www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4...

cheyenne: hit peak glory in 1880s ran the largest rail yard west of chicago absolutely dominated the plains now mostly just making bbq xi'an: hit peak glory in 800s ran the largest market west of chang'an absolutely dominated the plains now mostly just making bbq

kinda crazy that drake was out for 13 hours after taking half a xanax. 1 bar is 1 mg, normal prescriptions apparently range from 0.25 to 3 mg, and this is just for normal anti-anxiety. you’re telling me he took a dose square in the middle of the recommended range and passed out for 13 hours?!

fwiw, i smashed my friday record yesterday! i think this guy and i are just on the same wavelength

@evavivalt.bsky.social posted -> i texted it to the gc -> gc emails to tyler -> marginal revolution post!

MENE MENE; linkedin hath numbered thy applications and finished them. TEKEL; thou art weighed against the leetcode optimal solution and found O(n!). UPHARSIN: thy dream job hath been divided into four contract positions with no benefits, and given unto three remote workers and somebody's nephew.

okay it turns out egypt is putting theirs in an octagon, which means they’re 1.6x better than us. i get why bob menendez did it now en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oct...

if you're bored this evening and have been wondering (like me) why only utilitarians get to have a robust framework for making moral decisions under epistemic uncertainty, check out philarchive.org/rec/LAZDAD-3

who looked at the administration of the largest military in the world and said “yknow where this goes? this goes in a giant pentagon”

It’s been a long time coming, but I’m excited to announce my NYT crossword debut! I hope you like it :) www.nytimes.com/crosswords/g...

instead of writing the latex i'm supposed to write for work, i made my website look like latex: www.henryjosephson.com

why on earth would you ever manually insert line breaks into your webpage