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I may look like a 15x15, but I'm actually two minis on each other's shoulders in a trench coat.
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I actually *am* having fun at UChicago!
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I actually *am* having fun at UChicago!
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Henry🔸
@henryjosephson.com
· Dec 13
you can just do things! most of the time you don’t even need to ask or wait. you can just do them
i think classical liberal values are, on balance, good
May 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
i think classical liberal values are, on balance, good
I LOVE AUTOMATIC REMOTE BACKUPS
May 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I LOVE AUTOMATIC REMOTE BACKUPS
someone on the red line has tried to sell weed to the pope. i guarantee it
May 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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
May 8, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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.
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.
To be of use
The people I love the best jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.
www.poetryfoundation.org
May 7, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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.
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“
May 7, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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”
May 7, 2025 at 2:49 AM
disgusting that my phone puts slack as a “productivity” app. be honest. it goes in “social”
all my homies hate negatively-valenced conscious states
April 29, 2025 at 9:53 PM
all my homies hate negatively-valenced conscious states
the unicorn whisperer... the feel-good movie of the year.
April 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM
the unicorn whisperer... the feel-good movie of the year.
trying to download a 6 GB csv
March 21, 2025 at 3:40 AM
trying to download a 6 GB csv
beware the shortest path between two points
February 4, 2025 at 1:08 AM
beware the shortest path between two points
I'm glad I made it out of high school before gpt3 dropped.
January 27, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I'm glad I made it out of high school before gpt3 dropped.
underrated trick: piping command outputs into `pbcopy` to give to claude
January 27, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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…
if i’m hitting 3.5 sonnet usage limits as a pro subscriber…
January 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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…
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)!
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)!
January 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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)!
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)!
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Wrote a long rambling post about why individual AI use isn't bad for the environment substack.com/home/post/p-...
Individual AI use is not bad for the environment
And a plea to think seriously about climate change without getting distracted
substack.com
January 13, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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...
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...
A New York legislator wants to pick up the pieces of the dead California AI bill
The new bill being drafted in New York aims to regulate advanced AI systems while addressing concerns with the California bill.
bit.ly
January 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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...
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: 🧵
January 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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
January 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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...
January 12, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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)
January 12, 2025 at 6:56 AM
i liked pat spencer before he was cool (i.e. before he won the tewaaraton)
Reposted by Henry🔸
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.
January 9, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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...
globalprioritiesinstitute.org/wp-content/u...
globalprioritiesinstitute.org
January 7, 2025 at 12:38 AM
NEW GPI WORKING PAPER ON EPISTEMIC FANATICISM JUST DROPPED!!!!!!!! christmas came late
globalprioritiesinstitute.org/wp-content/u...
globalprioritiesinstitute.org/wp-content/u...
Reposted by Henry🔸
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
January 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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