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Jeffrey M Epstein

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Quantum information, computation, and foundations. Increasingly interested in logic and the philosophies of physics, language, and mind. 📍 San Francisco jeffreymepstein.github.io/

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Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · May 27

I was very kindly offered a chance to discuss my Frauchiger-Renner paper on the Quantum Frontiers blog! I attempt to situate the work, focusing on the philosophical motivations/commitments implicit in Wigner's Friend and the FR paradox. Cameo by another, unrelated obsession of mine at the end!

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Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 1h

No cheating though, you have to actually perform the disjunctive action.

Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 1h

Delaying AGI by either eating soup for lunch or not eating soup for lunch.

Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 2h

This is a great overview of the coming collapse. Seems likely there will be significant shock waves from it, tho' hard to tell how far they will spread. I'm not sure it will "delay AGI" tho', because AGI isn't really a thing, beyond being a thing that tech bros talk about.

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 2h

Really enjoyed doing a deep dive for @transformernews.ai on what an AI collapse might look like – how much bigger than the dotcom boom would it be? Would it leave infrastructure behind to build upon? Could we get a 2008-style chain reaction? www.transformernews.ai/p/what-happe...

Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 16h

Was told that it might benefit me and even be intellectually stimulating to learn more about "how the business world works". Called their bluff and asked for reading material, so now we wait.

Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 17h

It’s just such a good window into what they think about any kind of expertise.

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Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 18h

I’ve been getting a lot of LinkedIn messages about freelancing jobs “teaching physics” to LLMs, it’s infuriating.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3d

i am so ready for quantum to be the next dumb buzzword the tech industry forces everyone to pretend to care about. "how are you incorporating quantum into your daily work?" i'm not but it's so refreshing you asked me a new and different stupid question

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quiabo the exhorter @yungquiabo.bsky.social · 2d

you are literally saying a little prayer absolving yourself for using a magic 8-ball as a research method. it cannot hear your words or interpret them!!

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Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 2d

I guess what I'm saying is does anybody have an fMRI machine they can stick me in/do we still believe in those?

Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 2d

But maybe I actually can only do one of them and most people really can do both?

Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 2d

I've always (or at least since my Dennettian conversion last fall) sort of thought that people are just very sloppy about how they *talk about* what's going on in their minds, and that this stuff about "I can see things vividly"/"I can't see them at all" was just confusing exactly those two things.

Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 2d

"The biggest source of confusion [...] comes from the assumption that “imagination” and “forming mental images” are one and the same thing [...] I’m able to imagine anything, except it is all devoid of sensory representations. The imagined objects exist in my mind as interconnected concepts"

Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 2d

Wait a minute...

My Brain Doesn’t Picture Things

I can’t imagine sights, smells, or sounds. What’s wrong with me?

nautil.us

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Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 2d

Finally a rainy day in San Francisco!

Jeffrey M Epstein @jeffreymepstein.bsky.social · 4d

Coming to terms with the fact that I probably do not have a novel perspective on the measurement problem

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 7d

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”