Jeffrey M Epstein
@jeffreymepstein.bsky.social
Quantum information, computation, and foundations. Increasingly interested in logic and the philosophies of physics, language, and mind.
📍 San Francisco
jeffreymepstein.github.io/
📍 San Francisco
jeffreymepstein.github.io/
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I was very kindly offered a chance to discuss my Frauchiger-Renner paper on the Quantum Frontiers blog! I attempt to situate the work, focusing on the philosophical motivations/commitments implicit in Wigner's Friend and the FR paradox. Cameo by another, unrelated obsession of mine at the end!
Woman sitting across from me on the plane is reviewing a paper and just said to her husband “basically I think the problem with describing her results is that they’re meaningless”.
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Woman sitting across from me on the plane is reviewing a paper and just said to her husband “basically I think the problem with describing her results is that they’re meaningless”.
There's a mosquito in my apartment in san francisco??
November 6, 2025 at 5:16 AM
There's a mosquito in my apartment in san francisco??
Rorty in “Texts and Lumps”: “our ideal of perfect knowledge is the sympathetic knowledge we occasionally have of the state of mind of another person […] Realistic interpretations of natural science are thus hopeless attempts to make physical science initiate the Geisteswissenschaften.” (!!!)
November 1, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Rorty in “Texts and Lumps”: “our ideal of perfect knowledge is the sympathetic knowledge we occasionally have of the state of mind of another person […] Realistic interpretations of natural science are thus hopeless attempts to make physical science initiate the Geisteswissenschaften.” (!!!)
Hard to understand these people. Being mayor sounds like a lot of work and kind of boring, if I were a billionaire I’d just go to the beach or something.
Bloomberg has dropped $5 million against Zohran in these last days of the race, making him the single largest donor. Personally I wish he'd just settle for having successfully bought a 3rd term and do something else with his money www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
November 1, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Hard to understand these people. Being mayor sounds like a lot of work and kind of boring, if I were a billionaire I’d just go to the beach or something.
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Things I’ve found in children’s Halloween candy
October 31, 2023 at 9:41 PM
Things I’ve found in children’s Halloween candy
I get that I'm way too thin-skinned about this stuff, and that I should be used to seeing this by now, and that I'm a fragile little snowflake with way too much self-regard, and all that, but as someone who has spent most of my life just wanting to be given space to think, this is infuriating.
October 31, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I get that I'm way too thin-skinned about this stuff, and that I should be used to seeing this by now, and that I'm a fragile little snowflake with way too much self-regard, and all that, but as someone who has spent most of my life just wanting to be given space to think, this is infuriating.
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October 30, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Every time I catch myself saying that something is "subtle" I stop and ask myself "is it subtle or do I just not understand it" and it's always the latter.
October 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Every time I catch myself saying that something is "subtle" I stop and ask myself "is it subtle or do I just not understand it" and it's always the latter.
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The funny thing about the invention of the wheel is the guy who invented it died penniless. It wasn't until much much later that pennies were invented
October 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The funny thing about the invention of the wheel is the guy who invented it died penniless. It wasn't until much much later that pennies were invented
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The story (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/b...
A Work of Genius or a Complete Mess? Even Its Author Can’t Decide.
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The story (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/b...
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Spotify is now running ICE recruitment ads. We asked them to stop. They ignored us. Let's show them what we showed Disney. No Kings, No Collaborators, No Capitulators. indivisible.org/cancel-spotify
Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify
indivisible.org
October 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Spotify is now running ICE recruitment ads. We asked them to stop. They ignored us. Let's show them what we showed Disney. No Kings, No Collaborators, No Capitulators. indivisible.org/cancel-spotify
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October 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.
the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever
October 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.
Today I learned!
the prime minister of Poland goes to the doctor. says he depressed. doctor says “I know just the thing. the great pianist Paderewski is in town today. go see him perform. that will solve your problems.” the prime minister bursts into tears. “But doctor…”
October 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Today I learned!
I love putting all caps print statements in my functions when I'm debugging. The computer says "MELDING" and then I say "MELDING" and I feel like Sigourney Weaver in Galaxy Quest.
October 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I love putting all caps print statements in my functions when I'm debugging. The computer says "MELDING" and then I say "MELDING" and I feel like Sigourney Weaver in Galaxy Quest.
Happy missing zoom calls with your American collaborators because of mismatched daylight savings times day to all my British colleagues!
October 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Happy missing zoom calls with your American collaborators because of mismatched daylight savings times day to all my British colleagues!
Wow this sucks so much!
Imagine a browser where you type in “Taylor Swift” and it doesn’t even admit that her website exists. I write about Atlas, ChatGPT’s new anti-web browser that should come with a warning label. www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/a...
ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Wow this sucks so much!
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I don’t think a long book is even primarily about plot, or character, or any of the patterned information on its pages. A long book is practicing over time a way of being in the world. Reading even a very good summary is not the same as giving over some portion of your own life to that practice.
October 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I don’t think a long book is even primarily about plot, or character, or any of the patterned information on its pages. A long book is practicing over time a way of being in the world. Reading even a very good summary is not the same as giving over some portion of your own life to that practice.
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Gonna tell my grandkids this was Antifa
D976,749 - issued in 2023 for a design for "a halloween inflatable pumpkin decoration." #DesignPatents
October 26, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Gonna tell my grandkids this was Antifa
I guess he's posting from inside his dil fridge.
October 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I guess he's posting from inside his dil fridge.
A lot of you need to grow up and stop blaming your parents for all your problems. Take responsibility. Acknowledge that it’s mostly your PhD advisor’s fault.
October 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
A lot of you need to grow up and stop blaming your parents for all your problems. Take responsibility. Acknowledge that it’s mostly your PhD advisor’s fault.
I think this might be workable: the measurement problem is an artifact of physicists rediscovering the problems of personal identity in the context of quantum mechanics and assuming that these problems have been solved already by the philosophers in the classical setting.
October 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I think this might be workable: the measurement problem is an artifact of physicists rediscovering the problems of personal identity in the context of quantum mechanics and assuming that these problems have been solved already by the philosophers in the classical setting.
Serious question though: Boixo wrote on LinkedIn
"A major step forward is that the results generated by this algorithm are verifiable—another quantum computer can repeat the process to confirm the output."
Doesn't verifiability usually mean *classical* verifiability? Is this version meaningful?
"A major step forward is that the results generated by this algorithm are verifiable—another quantum computer can repeat the process to confirm the output."
Doesn't verifiability usually mean *classical* verifiability? Is this version meaningful?
October 22, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Serious question though: Boixo wrote on LinkedIn
"A major step forward is that the results generated by this algorithm are verifiable—another quantum computer can repeat the process to confirm the output."
Doesn't verifiability usually mean *classical* verifiability? Is this version meaningful?
"A major step forward is that the results generated by this algorithm are verifiable—another quantum computer can repeat the process to confirm the output."
Doesn't verifiability usually mean *classical* verifiability? Is this version meaningful?
As a Jew from New York, very relieved finally trying a Boichik bagel and confirming that they are not in fact good
October 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
As a Jew from New York, very relieved finally trying a Boichik bagel and confirming that they are not in fact good