DJ
@eschaton-avoidance.bsky.social
Behold! Tolerance!
September 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Behold! Tolerance!
I can't believe people are still making the fugly couch relevant:
September 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I can't believe people are still making the fugly couch relevant:
Aka, these two charts
August 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Aka, these two charts
I mean yeah he says contradictory things constantly, that's why he deletes everything he says but here he is calling himself centrist after that
May 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I mean yeah he says contradictory things constantly, that's why he deletes everything he says but here he is calling himself centrist after that
This is Polis also, and I know Lawrence Summers self-describes as being the political center
May 31, 2025 at 9:35 AM
This is Polis also, and I know Lawrence Summers self-describes as being the political center
the argument you are defending is this which notably doesn't respect water location
April 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
the argument you are defending is this which notably doesn't respect water location
This implies there is a 0 cost at some human timescale which is false
April 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
This implies there is a 0 cost at some human timescale which is false
multimodality focus is a big weakness and nothing else is a prediction that isn't "hype exists in tech"
April 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
multimodality focus is a big weakness and nothing else is a prediction that isn't "hype exists in tech"
He predicts the current most active research area in his own time will be fruitful and is....wrong
April 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
He predicts the current most active research area in his own time will be fruitful and is....wrong
Ok he's wildly wrong about six months from where he currently is, having acess to a lot of insider information about the companies he is writing about
April 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Ok he's wildly wrong about six months from where he currently is, having acess to a lot of insider information about the companies he is writing about
This is an insane lie to try to tell people who are nominally in the field??
April 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
This is an insane lie to try to tell people who are nominally in the field??
This is a sales pitch for AI singularity aimed at Trump and Xi and a handful of additional wanna be dictators for lifeplusinfinity he sent out two weeks ago??
April 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
This is a sales pitch for AI singularity aimed at Trump and Xi and a handful of additional wanna be dictators for lifeplusinfinity he sent out two weeks ago??
Even taking the most naive demonstration of the correlation, a 10% absolute increase in infant mortality correlates to a totally wild 4 additional children per woman, so the scaling doesn't work at all
April 17, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Even taking the most naive demonstration of the correlation, a 10% absolute increase in infant mortality correlates to a totally wild 4 additional children per woman, so the scaling doesn't work at all
E.g. oil doesn't become a dominant source of human energy until alternative options like nuclear are already plausible competitors and that's ignoring the range of possible paths to modern industry on non-Earths
April 11, 2025 at 1:39 AM
E.g. oil doesn't become a dominant source of human energy until alternative options like nuclear are already plausible competitors and that's ignoring the range of possible paths to modern industry on non-Earths
Not to mention he is floating company level exemptions he decides himself, the most obiously personalist autocratic version of a market that exists
April 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Not to mention he is floating company level exemptions he decides himself, the most obiously personalist autocratic version of a market that exists
