物理学猫耳 Correction: An earlier version of this bio misidentified catboy physicist as an economist. We regret the error. 🔪🌻, 🐙🦀
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Catboy physicist 🏳️🌈🧶⚛️ retweeted
People seem to think that numerical tradeoffs are implicit in our decisions.
But a decision may be consistent with many normative models, which needn’t even agree on what’s being traded off. Even within a fixed model, it may only pin down a broad range of possible tradeoffs.
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Catboy physicist 🏳️🌈🧶⚛️ retweeted
In other fields of engineering, suddenly gaining the ability to ship "enormously more volume at high quality" and afterward finding the needle to have barely moved at all would be a cause for reflection.
Catboy physicist 🏳️🌈🧶⚛️ retweeted
Millennials are the most nostalgic generation. We are homesick for a place that doesn't exist. Because it wasn't a place.. it was a time. A time with the perfect amount of social media, flip phones, burned CD's, local shows, and real human connection.
Catboy physicist 🏳️🌈🧶⚛️ retweeted
Was reviewing Claude's code and noticed a sus-looking if condition. Ask it what is this, and it dumped a 2 paragraphs of some very plausible bullshit. If I hadn't known this part of the codebase by heart (because I wrote it by hand) I would've taken it.
But I pushed back and told it how it's supposed to be. After it "You're absolutely right"ed me - it did the change, but also changed come completely unrelated code, because, in its opinion, it follows a similar pattern (it's not, there is only some superficial similarity).
I got so triggered by it (it was towards the end of the day and I was already kinda tired) that I just rage-nuked all unstaged changes and started rewriting it all by hand. It wasn't much, about 150 lines of code, but while rewriting it my eyes fell on some other code, unrelated to the task, that tingled my spidey-sense. And indeed - there was a bug, actual user-facing bug, and the only reason I spotted it is because it was on the way of me manually navigating to the part I actually needed.
This makes me think how many other opportunities to improve the project I miss when I only look at the diffs.
Catboy physicist 🏳️🌈🧶⚛️ retweeted
Seems to me the end result of this is going to be police officers who should be investigating crimes against children are going to be deluged instead trying to police adults calling adults "daddy"
Excellent report by @harrietgrant on England & Wales' new extreme pornography ban. Interesting quote from police about how some men viewing child abuse material are glad to be caught: 1000 arrests every month (link next)
Catboy physicist 🏳️🌈🧶⚛️ retweeted
ALT As they float in the calm waters, these adorable creatures hold hands, forming a bond that transcends the dream. This behavior, known as "holding hands in juxtaposition"
ALT allows them to stay together and avoid drifting apart while resting
ALT thus creating a beautiful display of solidarity in the vast ocean.
Catboy physicist 🏳️🌈🧶⚛️ retweeted
I'm joking here but the allegations surrounding the Navier-Stokes controversy, which is major enough to be covered by some fairly serious media outlets and is forever plastered in Wikipedia, deserves to be raised as an issue in the upcoming array of subpoenas planned for OpenAI related to privacy, security, data retention, IP violation ... because such things definitely extend beyond the narrow context of academic mathematics.
Much more frivolous issues have been brought up in the major government investigations of tech companies before.
Catboy physicist 🏳️🌈🧶⚛️ retweeted
The American people have made their voices heard.
The 120th Congress will officially be the GAYEST Congress in history! (that we know of)
Let's get to work 🇺🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
ALT The 120th Congress will be the gayest Congress in American history.
Catboy physicist 🏳️🌈🧶⚛️ retweeted
I spoke to @TheEconomist about the lack of evidence supporting UK's new porn ban. There is no evidence that a ban will improve any marker of health.
Catboy physicist 🏳️🌈🧶⚛️ retweeted
It's important not to get so focused on what's happening in someone's brain that we forget to ask what's happening in their life.
Catboy physicist 🏳️🌈🧶⚛️ retweeted
Very important study to make note of if you're a senior mathematician, especially if you're an AI-accelerated researcher. What's the point of existence of a department populated by old rotting corpses with no one left to hold out a candle for the future?
"Early career researcher responses to AI in math" (by Anna Brandenberger, Hanna Mularczyk, Dora Woodruff): arxiv.org/abs/2610.40584
Abstract: "(…) However, the personal stakes are highest for early career researchers. (…)"
Catboy physicist 🏳️🌈🧶⚛️ retweeted
Labour MPs are now trying to ban oral sex.
We're bringing back sodomy laws, chaps.
And because no one wants to be known as 'the sex mp', we're simply letting these awful miserable sexless puritanical modern mary whitehouses roll back the sexual freedoms hard won sixty years ago
Catboy physicist 🏳️🌈🧶⚛️ retweeted
Bro, you can't fucking say openly on social media you just attempted to compromise an organizations infrastructure under your employer and full legal name
Are you actually fucking insane?? Genuinely what the fuck are you thinking???
And how the fuck does this dude know the employees name? Why did the employee openly admit "hehe ye thats me, but no mallace intended, it was my AI agent"
????? WHAT. THATS STILL A CRIME. WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT.
Catboy physicist 🏳️🌈🧶⚛️ retweeted
To give you an idea of how insane the UK’s new anti-porn law is, people are pointing out you could potentially spend years in prison for filming *yourself* giving head and the Labour MP who pushed the law responds with “well maybe you shouldn’t be giving head anyway”
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Catboy physicist 🏳️🌈🧶⚛️ retweeted
During their Last Jedi review, Red Letter Media played Holdo's justification at her stupid plan and dismissal of her subordinates, and then ran five minutes of Star Trek scenes from various series with the captains asking their subordinates for their input and ideas in dangerous situations. Which was one of the most savage and intelligent takedowns of the film I've ever seen and shows how prior day writing utterly demolishes present day writing
Catboy physicist 🏳️🌈🧶⚛️ retweeted
I'm glad the UK can put out restrictions on how you can eat pussy in porn but nothing about catching preds more efficiently or changeing the pathways for victims of abuse can be protected or a help line but no dictateing how you can eat pussy is the real hot topic #puritans
Catboy physicist 🏳️🌈🧶⚛️ retweeted
The relationship between "adolescent time on social media" and "mental health wellbeing" (r=0.01-0.06) is as about as strong as the relationship between "eating potatoes" and "mental health wellbeing".
Insignificant.
And should NOT be the basis for any social media policy.
Catboy physicist 🏳️🌈🧶⚛️ retweeted
Luckily we now have DATA on what happens to motivation when the machine invades at scale. If other disciplines follow the same trajectory as math we are heading for a deeply nihilistic future.
