John Post 🇵🇸
@jordantbs.bsky.social
bio guy & data scientist
knowledge should serve people
prev @an_chomsky on twitter.
knowledge should serve people
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It’s safe to assume he genuinely believes it, and not only that but did so before working at any frontier lab, because they heavily select for true believers (which is why Ethan’s insinuations RE the significance of “the attitude of many people inside AI labs” being of interest is questionable).
October 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
It’s safe to assume he genuinely believes it, and not only that but did so before working at any frontier lab, because they heavily select for true believers (which is why Ethan’s insinuations RE the significance of “the attitude of many people inside AI labs” being of interest is questionable).
Because it’s a cognitive science question, not an AI question, and cognitive science lacks in empirical discipline.
August 1, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Because it’s a cognitive science question, not an AI question, and cognitive science lacks in empirical discipline.
Your brain might be cooked
August 1, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Your brain might be cooked
I disagree that the tech is going to fail. I do however believe that some of the usual market logic around risk/return is being put aside because the prospect (however remote) of virtually eliminating the labour force is in view, and it’s a prize so sweet it acts as a coordinating principle.
June 14, 2025 at 8:50 AM
I disagree that the tech is going to fail. I do however believe that some of the usual market logic around risk/return is being put aside because the prospect (however remote) of virtually eliminating the labour force is in view, and it’s a prize so sweet it acts as a coordinating principle.
Cool stuff! BTW, are there any plans on allowing direct image returns from tool calls (MCP or otherwise)? This would simplify multimodal reasoning flows quite a bit.
May 24, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Cool stuff! BTW, are there any plans on allowing direct image returns from tool calls (MCP or otherwise)? This would simplify multimodal reasoning flows quite a bit.
I think the real question is whether it saves you two hours of work more than you would have already saved with one of the £20 subscriptions. I’d guess there’s heavily diminishing returns.
May 22, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I think the real question is whether it saves you two hours of work more than you would have already saved with one of the £20 subscriptions. I’d guess there’s heavily diminishing returns.
I haven’t seen the centrist establishment mete out meaningful backlash to the right in the last decade. The right drags the Overton window further to its side when it can, entrenches itself, and the establishment accepts the new reality when it briefly gets the reigns back. It’s a ratchet mechanism.
February 4, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I haven’t seen the centrist establishment mete out meaningful backlash to the right in the last decade. The right drags the Overton window further to its side when it can, entrenches itself, and the establishment accepts the new reality when it briefly gets the reigns back. It’s a ratchet mechanism.
They have been banking on regulatory capture for a while.
January 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
They have been banking on regulatory capture for a while.
It's very easy. If you want an everything app and live mostly on that, twitter is there. Many of us want an open internet ecosystem. My personal bookmarking solution of choice right now is Pocket. I save stuff from all over the web there. It's not hard!
January 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
It's very easy. If you want an everything app and live mostly on that, twitter is there. Many of us want an open internet ecosystem. My personal bookmarking solution of choice right now is Pocket. I save stuff from all over the web there. It's not hard!
I think there is also some fatigue/trauma in many people who moved here. I know some used it as an opportunity to quit social media entirely. I’m certainly less keen to get as sucked into things as I did with Twitter. The upshot is it’s quieter here, so doesn’t really do it for the addicts.
December 31, 2024 at 9:19 AM
I think there is also some fatigue/trauma in many people who moved here. I know some used it as an opportunity to quit social media entirely. I’m certainly less keen to get as sucked into things as I did with Twitter. The upshot is it’s quieter here, so doesn’t really do it for the addicts.
I don’t have twitter. I would really like logprobs for tool calls if you feel like passing something along.
December 31, 2024 at 9:05 AM
I don’t have twitter. I would really like logprobs for tool calls if you feel like passing something along.
You can just not interact w/ them. Deeds over words. AI carries a bunch of risks & has a ways to go to deliver on its promise. That needs to be addressed, even if critics pointing out harms are often horrible, silly, misguided, etc. If you make AI benefit people, people will come along eventually.
December 31, 2024 at 8:58 AM
You can just not interact w/ them. Deeds over words. AI carries a bunch of risks & has a ways to go to deliver on its promise. That needs to be addressed, even if critics pointing out harms are often horrible, silly, misguided, etc. If you make AI benefit people, people will come along eventually.
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True and Real.
As a sidenote I'll just leave unrelated graph here.
As a sidenote I'll just leave unrelated graph here.
December 29, 2024 at 12:24 AM
True and Real.
As a sidenote I'll just leave unrelated graph here.
As a sidenote I'll just leave unrelated graph here.
For sure. Hard to disagree. I guess the fallacy may be to assume the converse applies, i.e., that someone who doesn’t consistently practise good epistemic habits must be untrustworthy in all areas. I think most of us have some major blind spots we could be caught out on.
December 29, 2024 at 8:58 AM
For sure. Hard to disagree. I guess the fallacy may be to assume the converse applies, i.e., that someone who doesn’t consistently practise good epistemic habits must be untrustworthy in all areas. I think most of us have some major blind spots we could be caught out on.
They have such a strong search monopoly they’re completely comfortable foisting the labour of finding and reporting bugs in this broken implementation to their users.
December 29, 2024 at 8:46 AM
They have such a strong search monopoly they’re completely comfortable foisting the labour of finding and reporting bugs in this broken implementation to their users.
But that’s in itself a bad information seeking heuristic. Cross domain transfer of talent is minimal. You’re not calibrating thermometers, you’re sampling from high dimensional spaces.
December 29, 2024 at 8:43 AM
But that’s in itself a bad information seeking heuristic. Cross domain transfer of talent is minimal. You’re not calibrating thermometers, you’re sampling from high dimensional spaces.
I think Simon has in mind “zero shot” apps where the LLM codes it all. LLMs aren’t good at coding entire apps on the scale where those abstraction layers start to make sense. Using LLMs to code simple 1 page web tools is powerful, and better w/o frameworks.
December 24, 2024 at 8:16 AM
I think Simon has in mind “zero shot” apps where the LLM codes it all. LLMs aren’t good at coding entire apps on the scale where those abstraction layers start to make sense. Using LLMs to code simple 1 page web tools is powerful, and better w/o frameworks.
It’s actually the same kind of stuff that’s regularly on the front page of the Reddit, sadly it’s not nutpicking and we are in fact cooked
December 20, 2024 at 5:40 AM
It’s actually the same kind of stuff that’s regularly on the front page of the Reddit, sadly it’s not nutpicking and we are in fact cooked
You can make those feeds, there’s an API. Obviously the front end is fixed but the algorithm can be whatever.
December 14, 2024 at 11:53 AM
You can make those feeds, there’s an API. Obviously the front end is fixed but the algorithm can be whatever.
Chill uncle gave me 20 quid at his dad’s funeral when I was five (drunk as fuck at 8.30 am)
December 5, 2024 at 7:29 AM
Chill uncle gave me 20 quid at his dad’s funeral when I was five (drunk as fuck at 8.30 am)
Self hosting is something any code literate person can do. Why are you using the Nazi image to make this point? It’s extreme and in poor taste.
December 5, 2024 at 7:23 AM
Self hosting is something any code literate person can do. Why are you using the Nazi image to make this point? It’s extreme and in poor taste.
These things take time. Engagement * time. AI people are among the last to migrate & also haven’t done it in overwhelming numbers. You do not follow many people right now & your content is mostly just reposting from other platforms, are you sure you’ve engaged enough for the algo to learn much yet?
December 5, 2024 at 7:09 AM
These things take time. Engagement * time. AI people are among the last to migrate & also haven’t done it in overwhelming numbers. You do not follow many people right now & your content is mostly just reposting from other platforms, are you sure you’ve engaged enough for the algo to learn much yet?
Bluesky isn’t trying to be the everything app to monopolise everyone’s entire information ecosystem, thankfully. So you can link to long form content elsewhere. And you won’t be penalised!
December 2, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Bluesky isn’t trying to be the everything app to monopolise everyone’s entire information ecosystem, thankfully. So you can link to long form content elsewhere. And you won’t be penalised!
You can literally write your own algorithm and make it a feed. Any rules you like. The one you mentio. Should be trivial. Could be fun to make a feed where gpt or something decides if it is relevant to your interests
November 30, 2024 at 8:03 AM
You can literally write your own algorithm and make it a feed. Any rules you like. The one you mentio. Should be trivial. Could be fun to make a feed where gpt or something decides if it is relevant to your interests