Jess Riedel
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Jess Riedel
@jessriedel.bsky.social
Quantum info & foundations @NTTResearch. Fueled by loathing of bad explanations. Seeking a rigorous definition of classical branches in many-body wavefunctions.
Is a good way to see they are getting better, and in particular are at least no more politicized than they were in 1992?
December 5, 2024 at 2:06 PM
I still see them on the mobile app and browser. You just have to click through to the tweet itself. Is it being rolled out slowly or something?
December 5, 2024 at 2:20 AM
Can any implications be drawn?
December 4, 2024 at 3:23 AM
Probably this is wrong and too political economy-y. But I like it.
December 4, 2024 at 3:17 AM
This implicitly and *necessarily* involves ceding power to the regulatory agencies (hence, to the executive). But that’s a price they might pay if their constituents are easily fooled by the ruse. Fin.
December 4, 2024 at 3:17 AM
Likewise, if opposing congressmen are strongly motivated by threat of being voted out by unsophisticated constituents, they might compromise on legal language that is vague/underspecified so that both sides can claim victory to their constituents…
December 4, 2024 at 3:17 AM
They say “the other country agreed to X!”, when the actual treaty text is very unclear…
December 4, 2024 at 3:17 AM
Ok. Consider international treaties. It’s well appreciated that treaties can often be incredibly vague, and this vagueness has the feature that both sides can return home and claim they won…
December 4, 2024 at 3:17 AM
(They probably don’t endorse this, and it’s doubtlessly unoriginal, but new to me.)

Like, why would you willingly give up massive power over the nation, and often give it to a President you dislike? Why not *trade* it for something?
December 4, 2024 at 3:17 AM
What were they, so I can compare them to what I saw on Twitter?
December 3, 2024 at 5:17 PM
If the decision was made by society, in what sense does this undermine the elephant-and-rider metaphor? Most people do not say "After thinking carefully, I decided to trust the wisdom of society".
December 3, 2024 at 2:46 PM
The arrows don't perfectly align with the line...
December 2, 2024 at 11:16 PM
Wouldn’t be a big deal if it was only a handful of seminal papers that did this, but in fact lots of papers (especially in math) have abstract that are way too short, and it’s motivated in a large part by the desire to look impressive.
December 2, 2024 at 10:30 PM
These sorts of abstracts should be discouraged. They project impressiveness, which can be accurate but are nevertheless a form of bragging, and have the distinct downside of not actually doing their job: summarizing what’s inside to help the reader decide if it’s worth reading for them.
December 2, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Of 944 Twitter accounts, it matched 144 to Blue Sky accounts, and I haven't found a false positive yet.
December 2, 2024 at 7:36 AM