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
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📍 San Francisco
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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.
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.
Finally a rainy day in San Francisco!
October 13, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Finally a rainy day in San Francisco!
Would you believe I'm not?
October 3, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Would you believe I'm not?
While I wait for the long version: Can I read this passage to mean that regard should be interpreted as: a physical interaction entangling observer and observed when it is externally directed; and the mechanism/law by which experience supervenes on physical state when it is internally directed?
September 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
While I wait for the long version: Can I read this passage to mean that regard should be interpreted as: a physical interaction entangling observer and observed when it is externally directed; and the mechanism/law by which experience supervenes on physical state when it is internally directed?
What happened this month to make everyone look for papers on QBism (but not download them)? philsci-archive.pitt.edu/14824/
September 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
What happened this month to make everyone look for papers on QBism (but not download them)? philsci-archive.pitt.edu/14824/
I think it's about time that I got the flying pony I asked for for my sixth birthday
September 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I think it's about time that I got the flying pony I asked for for my sixth birthday
Cool pages in the Oxford history of science museum. Second one is from an 1899 French edition/translation by François Lau of a 7th century Syriac text by Severus Sebokht on astrolabes.
August 30, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Cool pages in the Oxford history of science museum. Second one is from an 1899 French edition/translation by François Lau of a 7th century Syriac text by Severus Sebokht on astrolabes.
More seriously, I'm trying basically to understand why it's meaningful to say things like this. Why do you get to declare one set (of metaphysical/nomic possibilities) truly modal, while another set (of solutions to GR) is merely model? Am I too crass a pragmatist to see the distinction here?
August 29, 2025 at 10:13 AM
More seriously, I'm trying basically to understand why it's meaningful to say things like this. Why do you get to declare one set (of metaphysical/nomic possibilities) truly modal, while another set (of solutions to GR) is merely model? Am I too crass a pragmatist to see the distinction here?
I’m trying very hard to convince myself that metaphysics is real but it’s hard going
August 28, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I’m trying very hard to convince myself that metaphysics is real but it’s hard going
Been here for four hours and I already want to move. I feel like I’d finally Understand here.
August 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Been here for four hours and I already want to move. I feel like I’d finally Understand here.
a gem from the Wikipedia entry on the hermeneutic circle
August 15, 2025 at 1:35 AM
a gem from the Wikipedia entry on the hermeneutic circle
I hate it when there aren't enough sciences per token in the papers chatgpt dubs over my hard data
August 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I hate it when there aren't enough sciences per token in the papers chatgpt dubs over my hard data
So what I'm hearing here is that nobody involved in this story has ever had a complete thought in their lives (to continue the linkedin rage posting).
August 2, 2025 at 1:42 AM
So what I'm hearing here is that nobody involved in this story has ever had a complete thought in their lives (to continue the linkedin rage posting).
VCs and quantum startups stop telling obvious lies challenge (impossible)
July 31, 2025 at 8:28 PM
VCs and quantum startups stop telling obvious lies challenge (impossible)
I love how this doesn't mean anything at all
July 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I love how this doesn't mean anything at all
PSA about a circuit-drawing package I just learned about from a coworker. So easy to use! github.com/projekter/yq...
July 23, 2025 at 12:54 AM
PSA about a circuit-drawing package I just learned about from a coworker. So easy to use! github.com/projekter/yq...
Let's not talk about it.
June 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Let's not talk about it.
Forgot about this fucking guy
June 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Forgot about this fucking guy
I think that's a reading of what Curiel is doing with his Carnot-Geroch cycle, now that I've taken a look. At least according to the bit in yellow, whereas the bit in green seems to provide an alternate reading where this isn't the case (I don't understand his use of "in a similar vein"):
June 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I think that's a reading of what Curiel is doing with his Carnot-Geroch cycle, now that I've taken a look. At least according to the bit in yellow, whereas the bit in green seems to provide an alternate reading where this isn't the case (I don't understand his use of "in a similar vein"):
For anyone in San Francisco
June 15, 2025 at 6:11 AM
For anyone in San Francisco
Preparing presentations can be stressful. But for those of us who enjoy thinking, it is often also fulfilling, and can help us understand what we're doing in the first place. The "fact-checking" is obviously fake, but this is also so telling about how these people think about intellectual work.
June 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Preparing presentations can be stressful. But for those of us who enjoy thinking, it is often also fulfilling, and can help us understand what we're doing in the first place. The "fact-checking" is obviously fake, but this is also so telling about how these people think about intellectual work.
I think we should be more open about making fun of people who do this stuff.
June 12, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I think we should be more open about making fun of people who do this stuff.
Looks like he got this one wrong though
May 23, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Looks like he got this one wrong though
A bit on the nose, I think.
May 21, 2025 at 1:52 AM
A bit on the nose, I think.