Lapsed computational social scientist. Blasphemous orthodox jester with Discordian allegiances, nerdy habits, burrito affinities, and a big computer. 🇺🇸
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my wife went to a conference for day. she asked me if i could get the car washed. i think what she probably meant though is “please go buy a cybertruck”
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the past two weeks have been non stop good things happening for me and it’s almost a spooky escalation
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would anyone be interested in a computer vision channel?
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my wife went to a conference for day. she asked me if i could get the car washed. i think what she probably meant though is “please go buy a cybertruck”
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my new favorite lazy llm spam
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i don’t think prediction markets are particularly epistemically sound for predicting the outcomes of elections
it’s hard to reason about political outcomes because your preferences condition your predictions. and the set of people their associated capital who process this differently — i don’t think it’s enough to clear the market
also…you can make money noise trading. your exit is not required to be nov 5th. people talk about poll deviation arbs but…idk my (untested) guess is that prediction makers have momentum independent of polls so…
idk. just color me skeptical about the wisdom of crowds not unconditionally sampled over the distribution political ideologies, placing bets