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Dan Elton

@delton.bsky.social

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Science enthusiast and researcher. Excited about the future. I write about science, metascience, progress studies, AI, and other topics. speak the truth, even if your voice shakes. http://moreisdifferent.blog

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Dan Elton @delton.bsky.social · Jul 9

New on my Substack. If you find value in my posts, consider subscribing. You can also give a one-time donation here: coff.ee/moreisdiffer.... I am thinking of quitting my job to focus on writing full-time for a period. open.substack.com/pub/moreisdi...

Dan Elton @delton.bsky.social · 17d

That's actually false - have you looked at affirmative action statistics ie test scores by ethnicity at medical schools or top schools? Affirmative action is about hiring more of a certain ethnicity than would normally get hired on a purely merit-based system. The idea is to start a virtuous cycle..

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 20d

'Wrong to weigh in': GOP senator condemns FCC chair's 'absolutely inappropriate' move

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'Wrong to weigh in': GOP senator condemns FCC chair's 'absolutely inappropriate' move

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U.S. Transhumanist Party @transhumanist.bsky.social · 20d

Today, 9/21/2025, at 1 p.m. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites Professor Stefan Lorenz Sorgner to discuss Euro-Transhumanism, a vision that emphasizes a culturally nuanced, ethical, and inclusive approach to technological enhancement.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJUA...

U.S. Transhumanist Party Virtual Enlightenment Salon with Stefan Lorenz Sorgner – September 21, 2025

YouTube video by G. Stolyarov II

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Dan Elton @delton.bsky.social · 22d

5,290 papers at #NeurIPS this year, out of ~23,000 submissions.

M A Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 23d

5,290 papers will be published at NeurIPS this year. If you could still get the proceedings in a book, it would be like 50,000 pages long. That’s 14.5 papers a day to read each and every day until the next NeurIPS

Dan Elton @delton.bsky.social · 22d

Trump is starting to ramp up an unprecedented assault on the First Amendment. Everyone should be paying attention to what's happening right now, and be ready to speak up for your rights!

Dan Elton @delton.bsky.social · 22d

An absurdly comprehensive treatment of the (relatively negligible) effects AI has on the environment.

Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 26d

I took a moment to organize everything I've written about AI and the environment into a single clear landing page: andymasley.substack.com/p/ai-and-the...

Dan Elton @delton.bsky.social · 27d

Not a good look... 😬 (www.thefp.com/p/students-c...)

Dan Elton @delton.bsky.social · 27d

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 29d

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

After Charlie Kirk's death, teachers and professors nationwide fired or disciplined over social media posts

At least a dozen faculty and staff have faced fallout over insensitive comments online.

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Dan Elton @delton.bsky.social · 27d

All the people who preached “ #ACAB ” and “Defund the Police” are to blame for this! marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

Still under-policed and over-imprisoned - Marginal REVOLUTION

A new paper, The Injustice of Under-Policing, makes a point that I have been emphasizing for many years, namely, relative to other developed countries the United States is under-policed and over-impri...

marginalrevolution.com

Dan Elton @delton.bsky.social · 27d

Did it occur to you that maybe she wants him to find Christ and then get executed?

Dan Elton @delton.bsky.social · 27d

I don’t like it. Very bland triangles! =/

Dan Elton @delton.bsky.social · 27d

What’s a good book to read on fascism?

Dan Elton @delton.bsky.social · Sep 11

your apology is NOT accepted. Yelling "hate speech" in response to everything is why the Democrat party is in such a mess right now.

Dan Elton @delton.bsky.social · Sep 10

Repeal NEPA now!!

Dan Elton @delton.bsky.social · Sep 10

Updated Novavax vaccine for #COVID dropping soon!
ir.novavax.com/press-releas...

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Dan Elton @delton.bsky.social · Sep 9

Great news today from Jim O'Neill, ChatGPT is available to all workers at HHS!

Dan Elton @delton.bsky.social · Sep 7

Great example of the Streisand effect 😆🤣

Reuters @reuters.com · Sep 7

Reports: USTA asks U.S. Open broadcasters to censor crowd reactions to Trump reut.rs/3V4rCpO

Reports: USTA asks U.S. Open broadcasters to censor crowd reactions to Trump

The United States Tennis Association asked U.S. Open broadcasters to censor any reaction or protest to President Donald Trump during his appearance at the men's singles final Sunday, according to reports.

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Dan Elton @delton.bsky.social · Sep 7

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Dan Elton @delton.bsky.social · Sep 7

I’d rather post on Substack or X - people here are crazy!!

Dan Elton @delton.bsky.social · Sep 7

What are you envisioning as a plausible scenario?

Dan Elton @delton.bsky.social · Sep 6

Yeah I’m very far on the side of analyzing each tree and ignoring context that tree is in, and I generally think people focus too much on context. I’m a “high decoupler” (www.lesswrong.com/posts/7cAsBP...)

Decoupling vs Contextualizing Norms — LessWrong

One particularly thorny, but very frequent way for a discussion to become derailed is for participants have drastically different beliefs as to what the scope of the discussion ought to be, whilst sim...

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Dan Elton @delton.bsky.social · Sep 6

Interesting. Lehman’s deportation abundance” thing I do find offputting, although it does seem that deporting criminal aliens is much harder than it should be. It appears Lehman generally supports more policing, which is something I can get behind: marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

Still under-policed and over-imprisoned - Marginal REVOLUTION

marginalrevolution.com

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Dan Elton @delton.bsky.social · Sep 6

I see Charles Lehman from the Manhattan Institute was a speaker at the recent "Abundance 2025" conference. I don't know much about him. I personally don't judge people based solely on affiliation or judge entire movements over one speaker invite but that's just me.

Dan Elton @delton.bsky.social · Sep 6

"abundance, specifically, seems to be giving a bunch of people cover to roll over" - say more?

Dan Elton @delton.bsky.social · Sep 6

Meaning not a Democrat party thing? I guess not really, but the abundance movement has aspirations to be a source of policy ideas on the Democrat side.

I wasn't aware that YIMBY was a "Democrat" thing - a lot of YIMBYs I know are otherwise not very political or are Republicans or libertarian.