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I may look like a 15x15, but I'm actually two minis on each other's shoulders in a trench coat. Send me your favorite pdf! I actually *am* having fun at UChicago! https://www.henryjosephson.com
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i think classical liberal values are, on balance, good

I LOVE AUTOMATIC REMOTE BACKUPS

someone on the red line has tried to sell weed to the pope. i guarantee it

just crashed my puny macbook trying to generate one measly token from llama4

new favorite poem!! Marge Piercy’s “To be of use”. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57673/... Greek amphoras for wine or oil, Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums but you know they were made to be used. The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

i love the white sox like my own, but i’m unsure if we should call whatever they do “baseball“

disgusting that my phone puts slack as a “productivity” app. be honest. it goes in “social”

all my homies hate negatively-valenced conscious states

the unicorn whisperer... the feel-good movie of the year.

trying to download a 6 GB csv

🚨NY has a new frontier model bill🚨 read my thoughts here: www.henryjosephson.com/writing/RAIS...

beware the shortest path between two points

I'm glad I made it out of high school before gpt3 dropped.

underrated trick: piping command outputs into `pbcopy` to give to claude

anthropic probably has a great rationing model rn but just doesn’t have the compute to ship it if i’m hitting 3.5 sonnet usage limits as a pro subscriber…

office hours might be the thing i’ll miss most about college. you can just chat with world-leading experts in a field one-on-one (because nobody else ever shows up) and they’ll be thrilled to talk with you (because nobody else ever shows up)!

Wrote a long rambling post about why individual AI use isn't bad for the environment substack.com/home/post/p-...

As monday rounds up, let's close tabs and walk through what I've been reading (again): Alex Bores is introducing (modified) SB1047 in NY! bit.ly/4hfFVR9 Not to brag, but I told him to do this months ago: www.henryjosephson.com/writing/NY-S...

Quick takes on the new Interim Final Rule on Artificial Intelligence Diffusion: 🧵

nobody is ever close to the pareto frontier on anything you can almost always just do both

welp, i only went to the gym bc i hoped ai returns on robotics would lag far enough behind returns on intelligence that i'd still be useful as a thing-picker-upper in twenty years...