Shane Lewin
@shanelewin.bsky.social
Dad, husband, mathematician, scientist. Pro democracy, Pro Science, supporter of the free press and a nation governed by laws.
VP, AI and Machine Learning @GSK. Building platforms to learn the mechanisms of disease. I hate cancer in particular.
VP, AI and Machine Learning @GSK. Building platforms to learn the mechanisms of disease. I hate cancer in particular.
Wrong culprit. MSM news is or competes with ad driven revenue. Sensationalism drives attention and ad revenue, so only sensationalist media is competitive.
The best media is either publicly funded or simple sub. Asking ad driven media to fix itself is asking the fox to play nice in the henhouse.
The best media is either publicly funded or simple sub. Asking ad driven media to fix itself is asking the fox to play nice in the henhouse.
November 30, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Wrong culprit. MSM news is or competes with ad driven revenue. Sensationalism drives attention and ad revenue, so only sensationalist media is competitive.
The best media is either publicly funded or simple sub. Asking ad driven media to fix itself is asking the fox to play nice in the henhouse.
The best media is either publicly funded or simple sub. Asking ad driven media to fix itself is asking the fox to play nice in the henhouse.
Potentially relevant: There are upwards of 25,000 people in the world with graduate degrees using advanced AI on social media platforms to change peoples political opinions. It measurably works.
But maybe it's not doing great things for mental health, for the entire world, at the same time?
But maybe it's not doing great things for mental health, for the entire world, at the same time?
November 30, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Potentially relevant: There are upwards of 25,000 people in the world with graduate degrees using advanced AI on social media platforms to change peoples political opinions. It measurably works.
But maybe it's not doing great things for mental health, for the entire world, at the same time?
But maybe it's not doing great things for mental health, for the entire world, at the same time?
Looking forward to the proposals for the statue to commemorate the great men and women who saved us.
November 30, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Looking forward to the proposals for the statue to commemorate the great men and women who saved us.
They are pretty problematic, and sometimes horrific. But some of them are wonderful, and collectively they have, on occasion, done miraculous and incredible things. They are both the biggest risk to all life on planet and it's only long term hope.
Complicated bunch of fuckers, really.
Complicated bunch of fuckers, really.
November 30, 2025 at 7:18 AM
They are pretty problematic, and sometimes horrific. But some of them are wonderful, and collectively they have, on occasion, done miraculous and incredible things. They are both the biggest risk to all life on planet and it's only long term hope.
Complicated bunch of fuckers, really.
Complicated bunch of fuckers, really.
You have the right of it a usual. But wish you'd get off the platform powering the disinformation tech that made a lot of this mess possible.
November 30, 2025 at 6:44 AM
You have the right of it a usual. But wish you'd get off the platform powering the disinformation tech that made a lot of this mess possible.
The self driving tech they are putting on the road is generations behind where Waymo is, and many times less safe. It will only get worse for them as more Waymo cars generate more training data and their notably superior sensor array (lidar) gets cheaper. Tesla self driving is cooked.
November 30, 2025 at 6:42 AM
The self driving tech they are putting on the road is generations behind where Waymo is, and many times less safe. It will only get worse for them as more Waymo cars generate more training data and their notably superior sensor array (lidar) gets cheaper. Tesla self driving is cooked.
It's also laughably un-free market. Set the carbon tax at the level we need as a society and let the market adapt.
What he's actually asking is to set the tax at a level where old industries don't have to adapt.
What he's actually asking is to set the tax at a level where old industries don't have to adapt.
November 30, 2025 at 6:34 AM
It's also laughably un-free market. Set the carbon tax at the level we need as a society and let the market adapt.
What he's actually asking is to set the tax at a level where old industries don't have to adapt.
What he's actually asking is to set the tax at a level where old industries don't have to adapt.
Anne Appelbaum wrote a definitive book on this long ago so she gets to call it out now, too.
November 30, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Anne Appelbaum wrote a definitive book on this long ago so she gets to call it out now, too.
This. I've (correctly) not been nice to the NYT since the Obama term, but they have objectively improved of late.
November 30, 2025 at 6:25 AM
This. I've (correctly) not been nice to the NYT since the Obama term, but they have objectively improved of late.
She's a strong second, but HRC's still got the title by my rankings.
November 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
She's a strong second, but HRC's still got the title by my rankings.
If your economy is dependent on repurchasing essentially the same device again and again because they are deliberately designed to fail quickly, you have a problem with the incentives in your economy.
November 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
If your economy is dependent on repurchasing essentially the same device again and again because they are deliberately designed to fail quickly, you have a problem with the incentives in your economy.
Medical school would have to change a lot for a student who's primary education looks like that to get in or pass. Neither is easy to do.
It's more likely that the the kids not cheating are going to have wildly better opportunities, and your surgeon will be a highly accurate robot anyway.
It's more likely that the the kids not cheating are going to have wildly better opportunities, and your surgeon will be a highly accurate robot anyway.
November 21, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Medical school would have to change a lot for a student who's primary education looks like that to get in or pass. Neither is easy to do.
It's more likely that the the kids not cheating are going to have wildly better opportunities, and your surgeon will be a highly accurate robot anyway.
It's more likely that the the kids not cheating are going to have wildly better opportunities, and your surgeon will be a highly accurate robot anyway.
I've not been a defender of the NYT, but it was on the homepage of the app. On the same day they called out admin lies and correctly covered the unacceptable piggy statement. Not sure why ours is different (perhaps algorithmic).
November 21, 2025 at 7:20 AM
I've not been a defender of the NYT, but it was on the homepage of the app. On the same day they called out admin lies and correctly covered the unacceptable piggy statement. Not sure why ours is different (perhaps algorithmic).
This. If the feed is algorithmically optimized for revenue, it's unavoidable that it will optimize for disinformation and division because they increase revenue.
Although a better solution than to leave would be to form an open social network literally owned by the users with hard rules on the feed
Although a better solution than to leave would be to form an open social network literally owned by the users with hard rules on the feed
November 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This. If the feed is algorithmically optimized for revenue, it's unavoidable that it will optimize for disinformation and division because they increase revenue.
Although a better solution than to leave would be to form an open social network literally owned by the users with hard rules on the feed
Although a better solution than to leave would be to form an open social network literally owned by the users with hard rules on the feed
"The wages are so far below subsistence that government has to subsidize food" isn't a real compelling "come to america" argument.
November 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
"The wages are so far below subsistence that government has to subsidize food" isn't a real compelling "come to america" argument.
Maybe we could create a new nobel prize category for unprecedented achievements in bullshit and disinformation, for which the president would be a shoe-in.
October 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Maybe we could create a new nobel prize category for unprecedented achievements in bullshit and disinformation, for which the president would be a shoe-in.
Fun fact: with a wealth tax (such as on Gates), restoration of labor protections (which he was part of eroding), and non-linear land tax (which only impacts the very very wealthy, like Gates) we'd have more than enough revenue to eliminate poverty, inequality, and support climate change legislation.
October 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Fun fact: with a wealth tax (such as on Gates), restoration of labor protections (which he was part of eroding), and non-linear land tax (which only impacts the very very wealthy, like Gates) we'd have more than enough revenue to eliminate poverty, inequality, and support climate change legislation.
And also the prequel to mad max.
October 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
And also the prequel to mad max.
That's pretty harsh as burns go.
October 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
That's pretty harsh as burns go.
Yeah but, like, we have people whose Yacht's have Yacht's.
October 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Yeah but, like, we have people whose Yacht's have Yacht's.
It is indeed a low bar, made worse coming from a man who is markedly contributing to the problem (via AI compute).
Also, its not certain at all. The current rate of CO2 emissions so much higher than what is believed to have occured in the Permian-Triassic extinction event, for example.
Also, its not certain at all. The current rate of CO2 emissions so much higher than what is believed to have occured in the Permian-Triassic extinction event, for example.
October 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
It is indeed a low bar, made worse coming from a man who is markedly contributing to the problem (via AI compute).
Also, its not certain at all. The current rate of CO2 emissions so much higher than what is believed to have occured in the Permian-Triassic extinction event, for example.
Also, its not certain at all. The current rate of CO2 emissions so much higher than what is believed to have occured in the Permian-Triassic extinction event, for example.