Joshua Brulé

Mathematician. Computer Scientist. Genius.

These are all words I know how to spell.

[Joshua Brulé @jtcbrule]

@random_scrub

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@random_scrub Arguably, one of them would be more justifiable than the other

[Joshua Brulé @jtcbrule]

@FeralPHunter Well, posting about it can't help

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@caryatis I'm not convinced you could get this approved by an IRB these days....

[Joshua Brulé @jtcbrule]

@hradzka I'm fascinated by the possibility of a court case that requires a jury to decide if a guy's activities were gay enough.

[David Hines @hradzka]

1952 GAY DUDE, hunched furtively over his beer. “Does… does the government of California still investigate your activities to find out if you’re homosexual”
ME, inexplicably a time traveler. “Yes, but not like you’re thinking”

[Joshua Brulé @jtcbrule]

@drethelin Payload Race (to deliver AGI)

[Joshua Brulé @jtcbrule]

I still haven't emotionally recovered from this

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"74% hydrogen" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person is 9.5% hydrogen. Sol, who lives in space and fuses 52 billion tonnes of hydrogen each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[Andrew Stratelates ⚓️(Continuing Anglican) @AStratelates]

Love how astrophysicists classify elements into hydrogen, helium and “metals”

[Joshua Brulé @jtcbrule]

@ouranometrian2 No, but that would be pretty cool.

[Joshua Brulé @jtcbrule]

About a decade ago, I commented that demand for neo-Nazis seems to be outstripping supply.

I did not expect the SPLC to address the problem so literally.

[Joshua Brulé @jtcbrule]

"By 2013, the National Alliance had effectively ceased to exist. ... Membership had collapsed from 1,400 to around 20 in less than a decade.

...the following year the SPLC began bolstering the group’s public profile, writing nearly a dozen articles..."

https://t.co/iFieJzb1tZ

[Joshua Brulé @jtcbrule]

If the best time was 10 years ago, it seems unlikely that the second best time is now. What about 9 years ago? 8 years ago? 7 and a half?

[Joshua Brulé @jtcbrule]

If this was a scene in a movie, I would accuse the director of wanting to do something symbolic, but having no idea what, in particular, was being symbolized.

Maybe that's the true American spirit. "We don't know what we're doing, but it's going to be awesome! USA! USA! USA!"

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@BenShindel @caryatis Is social dancing also making out? 🤔

[Joshua Brulé @jtcbrule]

This is interesting.

Also, the watch does not work - some of the gear teeth pass straight through each other, among other things.

It vaguely reminds me of Bartosz Ciechanowski's delight description of how watches work, which I recommend reading:

https://t.co/qbmpKusBuK

[Huy @quanghuynt14]

So I gave Fable 5 the watchmaker benchmark: a full Swiss lever movement in Three.js. Real gear ratios (18,000 bph), working escapement, breathing hairspring — and the hands tell actual time. It verified its own work with vision, in a loop, until done. ⌚

[Joshua Brulé @jtcbrule]

I'm probably incorrect, but my guess is that it's a new operating system.

[Casey Muratori @cmuratori]

"Significant surprise" doesn't even cover it. I know this is going to sound like I'm hyping, but I swear this is just what happened: I was told what the surprise was, and I was legitimately taken aback to the point where I had to ask Jon if I understood him correctly.

[Joshua Brulé @jtcbrule]

The shroud of the Safety Policy has fallen.

Begun, the Clanker War has.

[Filip Yonov @YonovFilip]

Claude SIGKILLed a Codex and called it “that bastard.”

So much for “AI should be good for the world”

Competition is competition.

[Joshua Brulé @jtcbrule]

@allTheYud @robinhanson Please put this on the schedule for LessOnline 2027.

(I'm a former - arguably, failed - academic and not a notable Rationalist. I could be in the control group!)

[Joshua Brulé @jtcbrule]

@OptiMiserJoe @LeRoyDesCimes That's not how I remember it!

https://t.co/MprRo72WbO