David Piepgrass @dpiepgrass@schelling.pt
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EA, ACX fan, aspiring rationalist, antimisinformist. I focus on problems in the foundations of the world. My interests include molten salt reactors, making military takeovers fail, improving human intellectual efficiency, gathering and organizing the world’s information better than Google, programming language & library design, nudism, singing, AI, and SCIENCE.
Joined Dec 2022
From Twitter
RT @Meaningness
Prophesy: Leo Szilard—the physicist who first conceived of the nuclear chain reaction and who urged the US to undertake the Manhattan Project—explaining how science would stagnate, in 1948. https://rootsofprogress.org/szilard-on-slowing-science
From Twitter
RT @CollinBurns4
How can we figure out if what a language model says is true, even when human evaluators can’t easily tell?
We show (http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.03827) that we can identify whether text is true or false directly from a model’s *unlabeled activations*. 🧵
From Twitter
RT @TrentTelenko
This is the single most important piece of data in this @wartranslated 🧵
The Russian objective in the attacks on Kyiv isn't terror. It is just a "side benefit."
The RFAF objective is suppression of air defenses (SEAD) by running AFU out of surface to air missiles!
SEAD🧵
1/ https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1582163794608152576
From Twitter
Wow, at the exact time when Europe really needed to save natural gas!
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RT @ryans_wx
I have never seen a forecast like this. Ever.
https://twitter.com/ryans_wx/status/1608676351585980417
From Twitter
RT @jasoncrawford
Amazing progress on tap water hookups in rural India:
From Twitter
RT @mgeist
Bill C-18 will pass in the House of Commons later today. This post unpacks why this bill received an embarrassing legislative review driven by lobby interests determined to extract payments for links. A longer thread on what you might have missed… 1/14
https://twitter.com/mgeist/status/1603028433671528448
From Twitter
RT @mgeist
The last Tribunal merger decision took more than 600 days to reach a decision. Rogers-Shaw was released in a few weeks. That no one is surprised at the expedited release or the outcome is telling.
https://twitter.com/globeandmail/status/1608803727452033026
From Twitter
RT @mgeist
The Canadian copyright term extension represents one of the very worst policy developments of 2022 as the government buried the reform in a budget bill, ignored its own copyright review recommendations, limited access to Canadian culture and history, and added costs to education.
From Twitter
RT @mgeist
There is no public domain day in Canada this year and thanks to copyright term extension passed by the government in a budget implementation bill in 2022 there will not be one for 20 years.
https://twitter.com/DukeCSPD/status/1609557088153341952
From Twitter
I should've been following @mgeist.
At least that way I would've found out before it happened.
Who else should I be following to keep tabs on Canada?
From Twitter
Holy shit!
I didn't like Trudeau, but I'm sorry to say that I still voted Liberal in the last election (against the Conservative).
NEVER AGAIN!
As usual this move is retroactive, i.e. it has nothing to do with today's authors and everything to do with the Disneys of the world.
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RT @CityNewsTO
There will be no new books or plays added to the public domain in Canada until 2043 after the government squeezed in a change to copyright l…
https://twitter.com/CityNewsTO/status/1610016195364950016
From Twitter
RT @TGTM_Official
This is how China and Russia see the world.
If one of your neighbor hates you, maybe is his problem. When all of your neighbors hate you, maybe stop and question yourself: "Am I the problem?"
From Twitter
"We held a sham referendum and everything! That means the front line is in the middle of Russia! You're helping Ukraine bomb Russia! That's terrorism!
"Now please, we need you to stop Ukraine from holding a referendum declaring Ukraine's former territory to be a part of Ukraine"
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RT @wartranslated
Dmitry Rogozin woke up and sent to the French ambassador to Russia a letter with a piece of shrapnel that got stuck in his body after …
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1610565024270925825
From Twitter
That is some A-grade paranoia.
BTW I know I'm not supposed to believe this, but in a world where computers are somehow impossible, "Brave New World" is a pretty good alternative actually.
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RT @elonmusk
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(of course, when I say "want to die" I only mean relative to living in a state of suffering with some nasty incurable nasty disease. We'd all prefer to live in health)
From Twitter
Re "doctor shopping": if I visit a *series of doctors* hoping for assisted suicide, I really want to die!
Why should the state deny my wishes?
Anti-MAiD people want it both ways. The slightest pressure to use MAiD indicates a failing system—but so does doctor resistance to it!
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RT @RichardHanania
On Canadian euthanasia. I explain how MAID has been misrepresented in the media, and why it is a humane policy that preserves individ…
https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1610269363390779397
From Twitter
RT @TVNewsNow
WATCH: Shocking moment on live TV tonight that a reporter on France’s TMC TV channel was eyewitness to a missile strike on the ‘Altair’ hockey arena in Druzhkivka, Ukraine
I don't get China.
They decide to do Zero Covid aggressively for over two years.
Then suddenly they do a 180° and let Covid rip. No huge drive to vaccinate the elderly. No importing the most effective vaccines. Just "oh you thought recent years were inconvenient huh? how about we kill your grandma then? you like that bitches?"
Can someone explain this?
Now how can I get all my tweets to also show up here?
- Home page
- http://david.loyc.net
EA, ACX fan, aspiring rationalist, antimisinformist. I focus on problems in the foundations of the world. My interests include molten salt reactors, making military takeovers fail, improving human intellectual efficiency, gathering and organizing the world’s information better than Google, programming language & library design, nudism, singing, AI, and SCIENCE.
Joined Dec 2022
