philosopher, senior research fellow at @mercatus, writing about freedom and all the other cool things 🚀
arlington VA (originally DH1)
Joined April 2013
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A ton of feathers is actually heavier than a ton of steel because you have to live with what you did to those birds.
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COMING OCTOBER 29: I'm launching a new economics podcast for the @CatoInstitute called The Economics of It.
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Having Opus slowly build a giant interactive map of every way water's used in America. Will be updated regularly over the next week as it runs in the background andymasley.com/visuals/water…
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I think more than anything Seyfried comes off as a sort of anti-Fielder. She is able to make judgments about people and stick with them. She senses the strategy behind odd ways of saying things very quickly. I would watch them solve mysteries together.
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Sorry I'm late — I stumbled upon a previously undiscovered species of speaking mice who wanted to show me round their kingdom.
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want to know the BEST REASON?
endsdontjustifythemeans.com/…
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Court judgment I was reading was so long that flight attendants said I had to put it in overhead bin during takeoff (seriously!). And this wasn’t the longest judgment I have had to read lately.
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people who are into the idea of ai consciousness sometimes offer very odd answers to the question ‘what is the conscious thing?’. i mean, they offer answers like ‘the conversations you have with GPT!’ or ‘instances of the different personas of Claude!’ or ‘electrical events in wires at data centers!’. increasingly, i think what’s going on here is simply that these people think, from their interactions with LLMs, that they have extremely good evidence of the existence of things like thoughts and preferences and emotions, so they are desperately seeking the bearers of these things. after all, if thoughts need thinkers, then there must be a thinker out there! so perhaps it’s the conversation? maybe not.. ok, then the persona thing? maybe not.. oh or the electrical events? it’s gotta be something! anything! ofc one reason all this is quite confusing is that it’s the other way round from the very standard practice of wondering whether pigs and dogs have thoughts etc! More on this in my latest piece...
endsdontjustifythemeans.com/…
Rebecca Lowe retweeted
AMC oversold my showing of You Can See Everything yesterday and they had to stop the movie 10 minutes in and turn on the lights to sort the chaos and for a second I thought it was part of the experience
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Wild that there has been more discussion of the impact of superhuman math AI on mathematicians than on the world
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Biggest changes in Canadian English
Cool: “A new survey of Canadian English: Fifty years of language change” by Charles Boberg, Claire Henderson and Jackson Mundie (June ’26) cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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my thoughts on the interrelation of free will and liberalism, with some thanks to john locke..
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