Nostr notes by Andrew Barsky

This map is such a gross invasion of the Flock company's ...

2026-09-29T06:17:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…85up
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This map is such a gross invasion of the Flock company's privacy. I'm sure that Flock cares a lot about privacy; how dare the makers of this map do anything that keeps track of them.

Lots of people have: https://www.ahmath.org/members

2026-09-21T06:12:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…ws52
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Lots of people have: https://www.ahmath.org/members

Every single person mentioned in the article as being involved in ...

2026-09-19T15:55:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…g0sv
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Every single person mentioned in the article as being involved in this is either someone that I've never heard of (Ronny Fernandez, Liv Boeree) or someone that I have a rather strong negative opinion on (Aella, Grimes, Eliezer Yudkowski). Also the Botez Sisters, who I mostly know for making silly YouTube videos in order to try and make chess more popular with young people and have basically neutral opinions on because I don't know enough about them.

Anyway, why is Berkeley funding this group? This is a mix of random celebrities with no involvement in AI, and also Eliezer Yudkowski (a cult leader who is probably the single person I would least want in charge of anything to do with AI safety) and Grimes (who is Elon Musk's wife, and I think that this association says all that needs to be said).

I at first misread that as being by Joan Baez, and not John Baez, ...

2025-05-10T16:33:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…09ke
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I at first misread that as being by Joan Baez, and not John Baez, and I was very confused as to why a folk singer from the 1960s developed a method to identify crackpots.