Jonathan Warden

Philosophical engineer. Trying to do my part to help fix public discourse by fixing social media. Working on stealth Deliberati project.

[Jonathan Warden @johnwarden]

https://t.co/DBTyLZ5xs0

[Jonathan Warden @johnwarden]

@paulg That was the logo for the first business I started.

[Jonathan Warden @johnwarden]

@jankulveit If the first time everyone that chose blue died, then the next time, red would be a very strong Schelling point. Almost certainly everyone would choose red again.

[Jonathan Warden @johnwarden]

@jankulveit Well, there are multiple Schelling points here. You are assuming ostensible altruism is the most salient Schelling point. But if this game had been played before, then whichever color won the last time would be the most salient selling point.

[Jonathan Warden @johnwarden]

@waitbutwhy People press blue to save other people who pressed blue, who did so to save other people who pressed blue, and so on. But why did those idiots press blue on the first placed? If everyone just pressed red and never put their lives pointlessly at risk there wouldn’t be a problem.

[Jonathan Warden @johnwarden]

@entirelyuseles @davidad @QiaochuYuan Yes and in modern double entry accounting implementations credits are usually just stored as negative integers.

[Jonathan Warden @johnwarden]

@G_S_Bhogal Or “you only believe that because you are a [race/gender/nationality/etc]”. Bulverism and bigotry combined.

[Jonathan Stray @jonathanstray]

@ramez We said this about the internet too. In fairness, it turned out to be true! It increased political knowledge, participation, and expression. It also reduced trust, and increased polarization, misinformation, and populism.

https://t.co/ev5pPbcJMB

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

Catholic University is forcing Students Supporting Israel to invite someone who doesn't support Israel — or they can't hold the event.

Student clubs, regardless of their perspective, are allowed to advocate for their beliefs and provide programming that supports those beliefs. Requiring a group to host a speaker they oppose is textbook compelled speech — and FIRE will fight it every step of the way.

FIRE Letter to Catholic University of American, March 18, 2026 | The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression https://t.co/Aaf8z8mUXn

[Jonathan Warden @johnwarden]

@waitbutwhy Excellent

[Jonathan Warden @johnwarden]

@SteveStuWill You are being a little unfair to yourself by taking your quote out of context.

[Jonathan Warden @johnwarden]

We are about to find if we are intelligent enough to create a computer program that is intelligent enough to create a computer program that’s more intelligent than we are.

[Jonathan Stray @jonathanstray]

We proved that social media algorithms can be designed to reduce polarization -- and this might not even reduce engagement. We did a 10,000 person field experiment with five different algorithms on three different platforms. Results soon, here's a preview.
https://t.co/CmQmprmBhM

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

Where does a liberal go from here?, by @Noahpinion https://t.co/7W77sO29jm

[Jeff Putnam |✍ @TheJeffPutnam]

I have two unwritten rules.

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[Jonathan Warden @johnwarden]

@ThomasSowell @grok is there any truth to this?

[Jonathan Warden @johnwarden]

I've built Bluenotes, a fork of the Bluesky app with Community Notes. Phase 1 beta is live. https://t.co/Q52H1Fs4uJ Looking for thoughtful early testers.

[Jonathan Warden @johnwarden]

@tenobrus …more likely it means they don’t understand or reject the whole promise that it is truly one shot and there are truly no other consequences to defecting (moral, psychological, etc) then those shown in the payoff matrix.

[Jonathan Warden @johnwarden]

@tenobrus In a one-shot PD, game theory says a rational agent will always defect.

If people say they wouldn’t defect, it might mean they are not rational, but…