Eric McKay

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[Eric McKay @ericmckay]

@after_ephemera @conductor_build Use @paper with conductor. Better than Claude design in every way

[Eric McKay @ericmckay]

@AlextheYounga @DOGE Very cool project.

100 years ago, giving the public full natural language access to federal law would have been like spreading Gutenberg Bibles across Europe. I suspect we are all too brainrotted to care now.

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Has there ever been a Streisand effect as strong as demoting Pluto?

My kids who were born 15 years after it was re-classified couldn't tell you a thing about Neptune but are obsessed with Pluto.

[Eric McKay @ericmckay]

@zachcaceres <promise>FOUND PMF</promise>

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After a few weekends of testing, i have discovered my Clawdad constant:

# of claudes running + # of children supervised at the same time = 6

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@_dmca Hope you have a flat supply curve ;)

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@yrechtman https://t.co/pWPTYic7l6 <-- this guy will sell you cash-settled case-shiller futures to cover your short.

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@EconTalker did you know that you and your last two podcast guests are being served targeted ads from Scientology on Amazon?

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This makes my kids more scared of the dentist. A man who intends to put sharp objects in their mouth is talking like an idiot. I wouldn't trust him either

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Related: why do all kid dentists baby talk to my kids? “We’re going to give you some sleepy juice to buzz buzz the sugar bugs away” 🤮

[Matt Bateman @mbateman]

My vocabulary level when speaking to my 2yo and 5yo children is somewhere around “smart undergraduate”.

[Eric McKay @ericmckay]

@bnielson01 Have you listened to last week’s episode of Levin on Lex Fridman’s podcast? He has very… interesting views on platonism

[Eric McKay @ericmckay]

This Popperian understanding of "smart" also explains:

1. Everyday usage. e.g. my classmates in math class were smarter than me. i.e. even though we were equally interested in the topic, they were able to solve the problems on the test by conjecturing more efficiently and refuting incorrect conjectures faster.

2. The spectrum of "smarts" of LLM agentic systems. Neither Gemini 3 nor Claude 3.5 is a universal explainer, but Gemini 3 is smarter than Claude 3.5 because Gemini 3 is able to conjecture more varied explanations and criticize more efficiently on a benchmark like ARC AGI.

[Eric McKay @ericmckay]

You can operationalize “smarter” in popperian terms by defining it to mean “better at conjecturing, criticizing, or both”

So when people say Einstein was “smarter” they are saying “given the same background knowledge, Einstein was faster to generate high quality conjectures such as special relativity, photoelectric effect, etc”

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@Sam_kuyp Interest definitely plays a role here too. Not sure about his biography, but it's plausible he was more interested in applying his conjectural skill to physics than parenting.

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In an alternate universe where DOGE had been the one to uncover massive terrorist-funding fraud by immigrants in Tim Walz’s state, how much faster would humans get to mars?

[Eric McKay @ericmckay]

@SurfCityCom @DavidD_Chapman Where would the money to pay back the principal come from?

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Any idea why those schools span the full range from 0-100 proficiency instead of following the linear model like the other schools in Mississippi and other states? MS data warrants extra scrutiny due to all the “miracle” talk.

Thanks for putting this resource together btw. It’s both very interesting and very useful!

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@MitchForest I’d love to try this!