Paul Smaldino
@psmaldino.bsky.social
Paradigmatically promiscuous scientist. Ankylosaur enthusiast. Modeler of cultural evolution and related topics. Professor at UC Merced and the Santa Fe Institute.
Web: https://smaldino.com/wp/
Web: https://smaldino.com/wp/
Tesla drivers: worse than no driver at all.
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Tesla drivers: worse than no driver at all.
Coming soon to a street near me. www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehic...
Waymo Approved Areas of Operation for Driverless Testing and Deployment - California DMV
Approved autonomous vehicle platforms to conduct driverless testing and deployment operations in all approved operational design domains (ODD) in California. Make Model Years MakeJaguar I-Pace Model Y...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Coming soon to a street near me. www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehic...
Here’s a bsky post of the same. bsky.app/profile/slot...
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
November 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Here’s a bsky post of the same. bsky.app/profile/slot...
And what it all comes down to
Is that everything's gonna be fine, fine, fine
'Cause I've got Einstein in my pocket
And the other one is writing a eulogy for our entire goddamn society
Is that everything's gonna be fine, fine, fine
'Cause I've got Einstein in my pocket
And the other one is writing a eulogy for our entire goddamn society
November 11, 2025 at 10:46 PM
And what it all comes down to
Is that everything's gonna be fine, fine, fine
'Cause I've got Einstein in my pocket
And the other one is writing a eulogy for our entire goddamn society
Is that everything's gonna be fine, fine, fine
'Cause I've got Einstein in my pocket
And the other one is writing a eulogy for our entire goddamn society
We did some reviewing of this idea in this paper, but I’d love to see a more in depth treatment. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Information architectures: a framework for understanding socio-technical systems - npj Complexity
A sequence of technological inventions over several centuries has dramatically lowered the cost of producing and distributing information. Because societies ride on a substrate of information, these c...
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November 7, 2025 at 7:20 AM
We did some reviewing of this idea in this paper, but I’d love to see a more in depth treatment. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
I quite liked "On the Origin of Tepees" www.simonandschuster.com/books/On-the...
On the Origin of Tepees
“Ambitious and original. It belongs on the reading list of anybody who hopes to use Richard Dawkins’s insight into memes. That it is entertaining i...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I quite liked "On the Origin of Tepees" www.simonandschuster.com/books/On-the...
I’ll just call it silly.
November 5, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I’ll just call it silly.
Yeah, it was something as banal as "I will refer to this phenomenon as X."
November 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Yeah, it was something as banal as "I will refer to this phenomenon as X."
I was once told "APA format does not permit the future tense."
November 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I was once told "APA format does not permit the future tense."