Was thinking about brains last night Absolutely wild that just looking at something can generate a permanent biological change that stays with a person for the rest of their life Im fucking up your wetworks just by poasting this tweet
-
-
our understanding of the physical and chemical universe seems decent but I'm pretty sure we don't have shit figured out about personal and social reality
Show this thread -
things that would be fun to see: 1. education studies that are worth anything, most of us are pretty good at learning but as a practitioner it's just hacking around with a black box education outside of structured programs especially interesting maybe most learning is nonformal
Show this thread -
2. Stopping this random social change shit We cant learn anything this way Every social movement needs to be pre-registered with clear success criteria and guardrail metrics and launched with a backtest
Show this thread -
-
I dunno I spend a lot of time running experiments on a (comparatively) simple system with social and economic components A LOT of experiments, with fantastically thorough and clean datasets and incredible compute resources at my disposal And still my understanding is p thin
Show this thread -
What I'm trying to say is that strong empirical beliefs past chemistry are maybe a mistake There seem to be some cases where they work I guess Auction theory anyone Ok having gotten up early I should actually work now but one last thing have you every thought about writi
Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
right? like, not even an attempt at fostering a code review culture
-
This Tweet is unavailable.
- Show replies
New conversation -
-
-
Einstein's gedankenexperiment where he just started thinking about the nature of time one day and discovered special relativity all in his head. And then he went on to mind-fuck a lot of other gobsmacked people with it by making noises with his face hole at them.
-
right??? and its amazing but how did it work who fucking knows my model is divine revelation for a number of reasons, one of them being that it reminds me of the scant understanding I actually have of what's happening when I figure things out
- Show replies
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.