Jennifer RM

@almostlikethat

Artificial intelligence, biotech, blockchain, paper books, semantic archaeology, policy/ethics, meta, and citizenship points.

Joined November 2011

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    26 Aug 2019
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    Personality-wise my priors are that scientific productivity tends to occur among people who are BOTH open (so they see many "weirdly diverse" things) AND conscientious (so theoretical "abnormalities" worthy of study jump out from the orderly background).

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  2. Retweeted
    Jan 23

    Are people silly for not having coherent, non-contradictory beliefs, or is it silly to expect intelligent people to have global, universal, coherent beliefs about messy reality?

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    Different people of course have different values for what’s good, but once you start trying to *optimize* them you leave the mainstream fast. Ecologists think in terms of saving ecosystems, not cute polar bears. Development economists think about institutions and infrastructure.

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  4. Retweeted
    20 Nov 2019

    oof, there it is. this is one of those moments where i palpably feel a sense of the rawness of things, of how close the underlying structure is.

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  5. 1 Nov 2019

    I am haunted by... ...the way I have a few questions about the natural history museum.

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  6. 27 Oct 2019

    Every time I see the Soda Rock Winery sculpture in a picture, I can't help but think of Nago and Okkoto, leaders of the boar tribe, from Princess Mononoke.

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  7. Retweeted
    27 Oct 2019

    “I’ve been living her all my life, this is just crazy,” said Tim, (last name withheld) as he unsuccessfully tries to stomp a fire on his neighbor's truck on Los Amigos Road on the N. end of Windsor, CA where the Kincaid fire came close to Highway 101.

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  8. 10 Oct 2019

    In addition to having this beautifully vivid summary, if you scroll up, you'll find a substantive link-filled discussion of institutional trends in regional utility regulation.

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    I’ve thought about it and there’s just no other ethical choice: I’m quitting and boycotting all other products until they reinstate and the casters. I encourage everyone else to do the same.

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  10. Retweeted
    7 Oct 2019

    To get more housing we need urbanists & constitutional lawyers to get together & file a lot of lawsuits. That’s the case I make in this post. Here’s a summary thread about it. In short, urbanists & libertarian/conservative lawyers need to talk. & sue. 1/

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  11. 22 Sep 2019

    Sarah's thread here is EXTREMELY productive. Many points have very high quality replies that lead to sub threads that are themselves worth exploring. Tab explosion considered "worth it" :-)

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  12. Retweeted
    11 Sep 2019

    Oh, it’s just a new with eccentricity 3.08..!!! (ecc > 1 means unbound to Sun, i.e. it seems to be an interstellar interloper like - you’ll be hearing more about it over next gew months!)

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  13. 9 Sep 2019

    FOURTH and possibly the BIGGEST change is that you can no longer highlight lots of content by scrolling down and then using ^A ^C to get months of data for analysis. Twitter seems to want to rate limit access to the data only to Itself and humans-in-subservient-consumer-mode.

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  14. 31 Aug 2019

    I feel like audio books land in a different place in my memory than paper books. Do different books give the best impact via different media? Like I bet audio books are WAY better for "reading" poetry. Anyway, the replies here are great :-)

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  15. Retweeted
    21 Aug 2019

    You also might like Elinor Ostrom's book Governing the Commons, on common pool resource allocation in real historical settings

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  16. Retweeted
    7 Aug 2019

    There's no fire alarm for artificial general intelligence, so if you're not alarmed by this, nothing will alarm you until it is much, much too late.

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    1 Aug 2019

    Are there any accounts of "emptiness", preferably purely phenomenological/methodological, that don't presume a contentious metaphysics?

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  18. 24 Jul 2019

    This thread has a fascinating take on habits of media consumption and production (focusing on Twitter) that put a person in some relation to a "zeitgeist year". As someone obsessed with time and books, I'm impressed with the formulation.

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  19. 24 Jul 2019

    Archivists are some of the best people :-)

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    24 Jul 2019
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  21. Retweeted
    23 Jul 2019

    Totally not excessive to take someone's home...for uncut grass.

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