Paul Whitmore Sas
@hormetic.bsky.social
Trained in experimental psychology @Stanford
Saw field rebrand as "Behavioral Economics" after *psychologist* Kahneman won 2001 Nobel
Now am back to just an experimenter, post-Repligate
Measuring Flow Experience in Human-AI collabs -> MTV8NG.site
Saw field rebrand as "Behavioral Economics" after *psychologist* Kahneman won 2001 Nobel
Now am back to just an experimenter, post-Repligate
Measuring Flow Experience in Human-AI collabs -> MTV8NG.site
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Paul Whitmore Sas
@hormetic.bsky.social
· Dec 10
Poe - Fast, Helpful AI Chat
Poe lets you ask questions, get instant answers, and have back-and-forth conversations with AI. Gives access to GPT-4, gpt-3.5-turbo, Claude from Anthropic, and a variety of other bots.
poe.com
Not convinced to start talking to the Aliens? My tips:
Prompting is a modern day casting of spells.
I’m at a “sorcerer’s apprentice” level
Try ALL models for one $20 sub, my portal is poe.com [Try the web's free version first]
Co-Pilot muy meh; MSoft squandered advtg of investing early in OpenAI
Prompting is a modern day casting of spells.
I’m at a “sorcerer’s apprentice” level
Try ALL models for one $20 sub, my portal is poe.com [Try the web's free version first]
Co-Pilot muy meh; MSoft squandered advtg of investing early in OpenAI
Remembering Amos Tversky, Danny Kahneman’s great collaborator
At ‘96 memorial, heard about Amos helping introduce NYT reporter to all the key players in the field
The reporter came back that everyone claimed Amos was crucial to include
Amos declined, sayng “Incognito, ergo sum”
At ‘96 memorial, heard about Amos helping introduce NYT reporter to all the key players in the field
The reporter came back that everyone claimed Amos was crucial to include
Amos declined, sayng “Incognito, ergo sum”
March 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Remembering Amos Tversky, Danny Kahneman’s great collaborator
At ‘96 memorial, heard about Amos helping introduce NYT reporter to all the key players in the field
The reporter came back that everyone claimed Amos was crucial to include
Amos declined, sayng “Incognito, ergo sum”
At ‘96 memorial, heard about Amos helping introduce NYT reporter to all the key players in the field
The reporter came back that everyone claimed Amos was crucial to include
Amos declined, sayng “Incognito, ergo sum”
Reposted by Paul Whitmore Sas
The prospect of artificial intelligence automating administrative tasks is attracting venture capitalists to ho-hum professions such as writing this newsletter. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Hedge Fund AI Is Cheap AI
DeepSeek, AI services rollups, QXO goes hostile, trading goes dark and X loans are offered at 90-95.
www.bloomberg.com
January 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The prospect of artificial intelligence automating administrative tasks is attracting venture capitalists to ho-hum professions such as writing this newsletter. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Wilde was onto something here, but in order for this to be true, one should make explicit that it is the MAKING of art, rather than simply perceiving it, that's transformative
“It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection; through art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist
— Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist
January 25, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Wilde was onto something here, but in order for this to be true, one should make explicit that it is the MAKING of art, rather than simply perceiving it, that's transformative
why is a set of axioms not equivalent to all the inferences that can be deduced? Logically, no new info emerges the axioms
It's prima facie absurd that mathematicians do no "work"
Here's hooks on which I try to hang an explicitly computable outlook of how math fits into the physical universe.
It's prima facie absurd that mathematicians do no "work"
Here's hooks on which I try to hang an explicitly computable outlook of how math fits into the physical universe.
December 20, 2024 at 8:39 PM
why is a set of axioms not equivalent to all the inferences that can be deduced? Logically, no new info emerges the axioms
It's prima facie absurd that mathematicians do no "work"
Here's hooks on which I try to hang an explicitly computable outlook of how math fits into the physical universe.
It's prima facie absurd that mathematicians do no "work"
Here's hooks on which I try to hang an explicitly computable outlook of how math fits into the physical universe.
Let's not rush into this left hand of Darkness!
"immune defenses and predation typically rely on interactions between chiral molecules that could often fail to detect or kill mirror bacteria due to their reversed chirality"
purl.stanford.edu/cv716pj4036
"immune defenses and predation typically rely on interactions between chiral molecules that could often fail to detect or kill mirror bacteria due to their reversed chirality"
purl.stanford.edu/cv716pj4036
December 12, 2024 at 8:59 PM
Let's not rush into this left hand of Darkness!
"immune defenses and predation typically rely on interactions between chiral molecules that could often fail to detect or kill mirror bacteria due to their reversed chirality"
purl.stanford.edu/cv716pj4036
"immune defenses and predation typically rely on interactions between chiral molecules that could often fail to detect or kill mirror bacteria due to their reversed chirality"
purl.stanford.edu/cv716pj4036
I wouldn't think it possible to translate the magic & realism of García Márquez’s masterpiece, but I'm going to give it a shot on @netflix.com
Netflix’s adaptation of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” succeeds by conjuring the idiosyncratic beauty of Gabriel García Márquez’s prose, writes @shirklesxp.bsky.social:
Adapting One Hundred Years of Solitude Sounded Impossible. It Wasn’t.
Netflix’s ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ conjures the idiosyncratic beauty of Gabriel García Márquez’s prose.
theatln.tc
December 12, 2024 at 8:54 PM
I wouldn't think it possible to translate the magic & realism of García Márquez’s masterpiece, but I'm going to give it a shot on @netflix.com
I encourage you to "Talk to the Aliens" in my most recent Substack
higenius.substack.com/p/talk-to-th...
higenius.substack.com/p/talk-to-th...
December 11, 2024 at 6:37 AM
I encourage you to "Talk to the Aliens" in my most recent Substack
higenius.substack.com/p/talk-to-th...
higenius.substack.com/p/talk-to-th...
Not convinced to start talking to the Aliens? My tips:
Prompting is a modern day casting of spells.
I’m at a “sorcerer’s apprentice” level
Try ALL models for one $20 sub, my portal is poe.com [Try the web's free version first]
Co-Pilot muy meh; MSoft squandered advtg of investing early in OpenAI
Prompting is a modern day casting of spells.
I’m at a “sorcerer’s apprentice” level
Try ALL models for one $20 sub, my portal is poe.com [Try the web's free version first]
Co-Pilot muy meh; MSoft squandered advtg of investing early in OpenAI
Poe - Fast, Helpful AI Chat
Poe lets you ask questions, get instant answers, and have back-and-forth conversations with AI. Gives access to GPT-4, gpt-3.5-turbo, Claude from Anthropic, and a variety of other bots.
poe.com
December 10, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Not convinced to start talking to the Aliens? My tips:
Prompting is a modern day casting of spells.
I’m at a “sorcerer’s apprentice” level
Try ALL models for one $20 sub, my portal is poe.com [Try the web's free version first]
Co-Pilot muy meh; MSoft squandered advtg of investing early in OpenAI
Prompting is a modern day casting of spells.
I’m at a “sorcerer’s apprentice” level
Try ALL models for one $20 sub, my portal is poe.com [Try the web's free version first]
Co-Pilot muy meh; MSoft squandered advtg of investing early in OpenAI
Reposted by Paul Whitmore Sas
Syria. Where your enemy's enemy is not, in fact, your friend
December 1, 2024 at 6:50 AM
Syria. Where your enemy's enemy is not, in fact, your friend
Have you heard of Pantheon? Anime-style (US production) treatment of brain uploading, emulated brains enslaved by corporations, philosophical tangling with the questions of personal identity & continuity
Used to be impossible to watch in the US
Now on Netflix
Used to be impossible to watch in the US
Now on Netflix
November 29, 2024 at 3:51 AM
Have you heard of Pantheon? Anime-style (US production) treatment of brain uploading, emulated brains enslaved by corporations, philosophical tangling with the questions of personal identity & continuity
Used to be impossible to watch in the US
Now on Netflix
Used to be impossible to watch in the US
Now on Netflix
Reposted by Paul Whitmore Sas
The @washingtonpost.com agrees
wapo.st/3VbTGrQ
Stove Top is far and away America’s best-selling stuffing — it boasts 60% market share ...
Turns out, there’s a good reason it’s the reigning King Crouton. (Price: $3.99 / 6 ounces at Safeway)
wapo.st/3VbTGrQ
Stove Top is far and away America’s best-selling stuffing — it boasts 60% market share ...
Turns out, there’s a good reason it’s the reigning King Crouton. (Price: $3.99 / 6 ounces at Safeway)
Review | We tried 8 popular stuffing mixes. There was one clear winner.
We taste-tested the best-selling stove-top stuffing mixes to help with holiday cooking shortcuts.
wapo.st
November 28, 2024 at 6:42 PM
The @washingtonpost.com agrees
wapo.st/3VbTGrQ
Stove Top is far and away America’s best-selling stuffing — it boasts 60% market share ...
Turns out, there’s a good reason it’s the reigning King Crouton. (Price: $3.99 / 6 ounces at Safeway)
wapo.st/3VbTGrQ
Stove Top is far and away America’s best-selling stuffing — it boasts 60% market share ...
Turns out, there’s a good reason it’s the reigning King Crouton. (Price: $3.99 / 6 ounces at Safeway)
Reposted by Paul Whitmore Sas
My advice to myself… “pace yourself. It hasn’t even started yet.”
November 18, 2024 at 8:28 PM
My advice to myself… “pace yourself. It hasn’t even started yet.”
Self-explanatory why so many are X'iting Twitter, a site that claims to advocate free speech yet drives us to use circumlocutions more typical of the people in China who work-around CCP suppression
November 28, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Self-explanatory why so many are X'iting Twitter, a site that claims to advocate free speech yet drives us to use circumlocutions more typical of the people in China who work-around CCP suppression
Reposted by Paul Whitmore Sas
In The Talmud, the Rabbis asked
"Is it better to have never been born" tractate Eruvin (13b)
Shimon ben Lakish granted there's arguments to avoid pain by non-existence; yet life involves moments of joy & learning
Josephus later praised Judaism for its philosophical outlook in "Against Apion"
"Is it better to have never been born" tractate Eruvin (13b)
Shimon ben Lakish granted there's arguments to avoid pain by non-existence; yet life involves moments of joy & learning
Josephus later praised Judaism for its philosophical outlook in "Against Apion"
November 28, 2024 at 6:09 PM
In The Talmud, the Rabbis asked
"Is it better to have never been born" tractate Eruvin (13b)
Shimon ben Lakish granted there's arguments to avoid pain by non-existence; yet life involves moments of joy & learning
Josephus later praised Judaism for its philosophical outlook in "Against Apion"
"Is it better to have never been born" tractate Eruvin (13b)
Shimon ben Lakish granted there's arguments to avoid pain by non-existence; yet life involves moments of joy & learning
Josephus later praised Judaism for its philosophical outlook in "Against Apion"
Reposted by Paul Whitmore Sas
Spinoza's perspective as well
I've been impressed and influenced by Einstein's admiration for Benedict (or Baruch, both translate to Blessed)
I exult in the feeling that we are cosmically embedded in the Divine, & that even G-d doesn't have free will
I've been impressed and influenced by Einstein's admiration for Benedict (or Baruch, both translate to Blessed)
I exult in the feeling that we are cosmically embedded in the Divine, & that even G-d doesn't have free will
November 28, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Spinoza's perspective as well
I've been impressed and influenced by Einstein's admiration for Benedict (or Baruch, both translate to Blessed)
I exult in the feeling that we are cosmically embedded in the Divine, & that even G-d doesn't have free will
I've been impressed and influenced by Einstein's admiration for Benedict (or Baruch, both translate to Blessed)
I exult in the feeling that we are cosmically embedded in the Divine, & that even G-d doesn't have free will
Reposted by Paul Whitmore Sas
Time makes more converts than reason.
- Thomas Paine
- Thomas Paine
November 15, 2024 at 4:31 PM
Time makes more converts than reason.
- Thomas Paine
- Thomas Paine
"many exceptional math students without mentors ... could be reached with modest investments"
Nice to see this coming out of Stanford, building on the Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY) that Pat Suppes initiated at Stanford in the early 1990s
Nice to see this coming out of Stanford, building on the Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY) that Pat Suppes initiated at Stanford in the early 1990s
Next up: Ian Calaway on early mentors for exceptional students.
This excellent conference is live streaming! 1/N
www.nber.org/conferences/...
This excellent conference is live streaming! 1/N
www.nber.org/conferences/...
November 20, 2024 at 12:56 AM
"many exceptional math students without mentors ... could be reached with modest investments"
Nice to see this coming out of Stanford, building on the Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY) that Pat Suppes initiated at Stanford in the early 1990s
Nice to see this coming out of Stanford, building on the Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY) that Pat Suppes initiated at Stanford in the early 1990s
Hey @steveportigal.bsky.social
You must’ve known that every Palantir employee got 5 books, one of which is your classic, Interviewing users
You must’ve known that every Palantir employee got 5 books, one of which is your classic, Interviewing users
October 17, 2024 at 8:44 PM
Hey @steveportigal.bsky.social
You must’ve known that every Palantir employee got 5 books, one of which is your classic, Interviewing users
You must’ve known that every Palantir employee got 5 books, one of which is your classic, Interviewing users
Reposted by Paul Whitmore Sas
Famed motivational speaker, @astrokatie.com.
August 29, 2024 at 8:49 PM
Famed motivational speaker, @astrokatie.com.
Reposted by Paul Whitmore Sas
I was struck by *terrifying* fact that access journalists like @nytimes.com think the way to get access to Republicans is to lie for them, but way to get access to Democrats is to lie about them.
April 25, 2024 at 4:56 PM
I was struck by *terrifying* fact that access journalists like @nytimes.com think the way to get access to Republicans is to lie for them, but way to get access to Democrats is to lie about them.