Michael Nielsen
michaelnielsen.bsky.social
Michael Nielsen
@michaelnielsen.bsky.social
Searching for the numinous
Australian Canadian, currently living in the US
https://michaelnotebook.com
Actually, it might be in the Barenco et al 1995 paper (the one with 9 or so authors, on gate universality). I suspect that's a good spot to check!
September 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Wrote it down? I'm not sure. IIRC I learned it from Manny Knill in 1996, but my memory is very fuzzy
September 3, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Reading this with much interesst!
August 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Reposted by Michael Nielsen
Reminds me of this paragraph from @michaelnielsen.bsky.social about human willingness to delegate to world-ending authority automated systems (whether because oversight is impossible or just inconvenient)

michaelnotebook.com/xriskbrief/i...
July 9, 2025 at 7:25 AM
"Maybe if we add another rule / consultation that will help fix the decay" is kinda an attempt at distilling the inverse philosophy...
June 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Good choice

(I just listened to Serkis read "The Silmarillion" and "The Lord of the Rings", and it was great!)
June 2, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Thanks. Ugh
May 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Do you know what happened with this? I missed that Cremieux was invited (and would likely have declined to participate had I known)
May 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Yeah, I had people like Ostrom, Mancur Olson, Schelling, Axelrod, and even Fukuyama in mind - really, the whole game-theoretic foundations for the evolution of co-operation
May 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
At some point I realized that everything online breaks, so what you want is handwritten static files hosted in the most stable place you can think of. GitHub Pages will eventually die, but I think that site is safe for a while...
May 12, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Thanks. I'm certainly never going to be known for my design skills...
May 12, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Or, um,
May 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
May 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
ChatGPT, took 10 seconds for me to type the prompt
May 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Congratulations!
May 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
You might well be able to write quite a funny paper about "Emergent stupidity" ("we trained it to be anti-woke, and everything else got worse too...")
May 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I mean two people who think they're working on homework at school, but are actually talking about shampoo. One of them just expressed surprise that their work is taking so long. I refrained from commenting "That's because you've only worked 10 mins over 2 hours..."
May 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM