Arend Bayer
@arendbayer.bsky.social
Mathematician @ University of Edinburgh.
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I have a very bad feeling about this...
October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I have a very bad feeling about this...
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The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place):
1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."
1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."
February 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place):
1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."
1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."
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Word of this morning is ‘procaffeinate’: to put everything on hold until you’ve had sufficient amounts of coffee.
November 18, 2024 at 8:15 AM
Word of this morning is ‘procaffeinate’: to put everything on hold until you’ve had sufficient amounts of coffee.
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Remarkable chart. www.ft.com/content/e8ac...
November 7, 2024 at 8:17 AM
Remarkable chart. www.ft.com/content/e8ac...
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I know others have already said this, but universities deploying law enforcement against their own students for expressing opinions about the world is such a fundamental betrayal of the university's mission and very reason for existing.
April 26, 2024 at 12:28 PM
I know others have already said this, but universities deploying law enforcement against their own students for expressing opinions about the world is such a fundamental betrayal of the university's mission and very reason for existing.
This talk by Daniel Kahnemann is one of my favourite things I have read in the last year. It's about adversarial collaborations, but really much more: how science works, or doesn't, and how people change their mind (spoiler: usually not).
www.edge.org/adversarial-...
www.edge.org/adversarial-...
Adversarial Collaboration: An EDGE Lecture by Daniel Kahneman | Edge.org
www.edge.org
March 27, 2024 at 9:56 PM
This talk by Daniel Kahnemann is one of my favourite things I have read in the last year. It's about adversarial collaborations, but really much more: how science works, or doesn't, and how people change their mind (spoiler: usually not).
www.edge.org/adversarial-...
www.edge.org/adversarial-...
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“I turn on Fox News, and institutions like mine are being described as these factories of indoctrination,” says Penn education professor Jonathan Zimmerman. “Let me put it this way: If half of my students are going to Wall Street, I’m a pretty shitty Marxist.”
How Did Penn Get Here?
Liz Magill was the first Ivy League president felled by the turmoil over campus antisemitism. But our city’s most important institution hasn’t just been rocked by free-speech woes. It faces an eve...
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January 28, 2024 at 2:55 PM
“I turn on Fox News, and institutions like mine are being described as these factories of indoctrination,” says Penn education professor Jonathan Zimmerman. “Let me put it this way: If half of my students are going to Wall Street, I’m a pretty shitty Marxist.”