I highly recommend putting this NASA #Artemis II mission livestream on and just leaving it playing as you go about your weekend. Live views of the spacecraft, occasional visualizations of the current config, views of the control room, space-ground radio audio. www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...

“Secret wisdom is not secret simply because its formulae are not disclosed…rather, secret wisdom is such because it is experiential wisdom, and thus impossible to convey in words at all.” - Jay Michaelson

its funny how much of psychoanalysis just boils down to this tbh

Did a series of videos with Markus Brunnermeier on Claude Code (more to come) Video 1: Getting Started with CC open.substack.com/pub/paulgp/p...

Atlanta Airport, what the fuuuuuuuu?

Find this week’s parsha in the bible in the Baptist church challenge.

I’ve been living in California so long that I flushed a urinal in Georgia and so much water came out I thought there was a plumbing malfunction.

wondering how CAS relates to TSA. SFO security is running smoothly with no discernible difference from the norm.

Is the true purpose mere exposure?

Old man behind the waterfall is my favorite LLM persona.

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

When Arthur Brooks says a key ingredient of happiness is meaning, and a test of meaning is knowing what you’d die for, it sounds to me like jumping in front of a bullet. Trolley problem stuff. But we’re all giving our life for something. It just usually plays out over years rather than one moment.

huh. i missed the big anniversary like a couple of weeks ago, but interfluidity.com is twenty years old this month. i'm on a bit of a hiatus as my life is overwhelmed by other things, but i'm still blogging after all these years. drafts.interfluidity.com/archive.html

I’ve been following @hussmanjp.bsky.social on and off for many years. He often has insightful comments on investing and the economy. This post is Really worth a read: www.hussmanfunds.com/comment/mc26...

When I show up for the first time to an LLM Anon meeting, the guys look at me with compassion and ask me “Sex bots?” I shake my head, sip my nasty coffee, and say, grimly “Polygon Stacking.”

We wrote this, specifically designed to be integrated into agentic workflows linkml.github.io/linkml-refer...

Unclear what to do with the people who like the best of all activity in Omelas that which takes place in one cramped and dark room.

This guy was great as Scarecrow in The Dark Knight.

It feels so good when you recommend a book or series you loved as a child to your child, and they tell you they love it. Latest victory: My son telling me Chronicles of Prydain is his favorite—even better than Spy School.

When the mysticism kicks in.

When the gap between law/regulation and enforcement gets too wide, the outcomes are perverse. The rules scare conscientious people away, concentrating innovation among boundary-pushers. If enforcement is lax, cheating pays, and the most obnoxious people win.

Everything is Dog

Knuth likes Claude www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/paper... [PDF]

Perfecting your cookies to own Amalek.

I don’t think you need a genius level intelligence to see what could go wrong with prop betting that pays out if an individual dies.

Not surprising but saddening nonetheless.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

People referring to Claude Code in fifty years.

"Powerful AI can statically help human decision-makers, but can harm collective knowledge building... it can lead to what we call “knowledge collapse” whereby in the long-run all human knowledge is ultimately destroyed.” economics.mit.edu/sites/defaul...

Ingmar Bergman on the creative process 📽️

The ultimate unchosen identity is existence itself. - David Bashevkin

What’s really striking in Saruman’s speech to Gandalf is how broadly (and unusually for Tolkien) relevant it is. Take out the one specific reference to the Elves and Númenor and it is just an absolute classic rationale for collaborating with evil in the confidence you can ultimately direct it.

AI's potential to extend human judgment and enable new tasks is transformative yet underexploited. This paper defines pro-worker AI and discusses how to build it, from Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, and Simon Johnson www.nber.org/papers/w34854

Appreciate @jasonfurman.bsky.social kicking this off. Here are my predictions for the next decade of productivity growth (once all revisions are said and done) [2nd posting attempt after doing a blank probability column…]

Things local/state elected leaders can not do: - Stop oil pipelines/oil drilling - Regulate the car industry to make cleaner vehicles Things they can do: - Destroy oil demand by legalizing housing in walkable neighborhoods with transit - Enforce traffic laws to end scourge of driver violence

You know that annoying NSF form "List every coauthor/co-PI from the last 4y" ? At @cevianlabs.io we built a free tool that drafts the COI form from your PDF CV in minutes. Check it out 👇

The idea of a personal god as a father figure never felt relatable when I was a child. Now that I have experienced being a father, it’s starting to make a lot of sense.

A mood and a head flavor, while synonymous, are not the same.

Supreme Court strikes down Trump's tariffs. A stitched together majority, as expected. Read along thread here.👇 www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Modernity is having really impressive answers to really bad questions. - David Byshevkin

A reminder that last baseball season, our newly enshrined women’s singles Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu threw out the first pitch at a Cardinals game with a pretty sweet double axel on land! (She looks three feet tall here)

I haven’t been watching the Olympics, but seeing Mikaela Shiffrin’s slalom run and Alysa Liu’s figure skating got me stoked.

Popular science piece about a math paper with physics motivation by Caltech and Princeton economists. www.caltech.edu/about/news/e...

‘Transfer payments have been the only significant driver of rising disposable income this past year, and without that boost income would be growing at its lowest rate for over 10 years, at less than 2% annually and negatively in real terms.’ blinks.bloomberg.com/news/stories...

The RCT trilemma: duration, control, subject count.

Imagine being so starved of authenticity that you elevate a man who will speak unfiltered stream of consciousness into the microphone. Pure id.

Notes on Complexity, by Neil Theise, offers a stimulating synthesis of ideas we code as ”science” and ideas we code as “mysticism.”

A cool project, which might be very challenging to operationalize, would look at a representative sample of households and assign each one a score based on their exposure to labor share of income vs capital share of income. Do people really benefit from the changes they think they benefit from?

mostly I am tired of people with 3 passports and 6 multinational conglomerates lecturing me on the virtues of ethnic nationalism