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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 7h

I didn’t know Perot was eccentric and paranoid. I remember the entire Vietnam POW thing from Rambo, but… as a child … I thought that was a movie. I’m surprised that Perot didn’t know make-believe (?)

Is there an American pattern of disconnected billionaires going all the way back?

Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 8h

Sorry, to echo your point here, specific fields are peculiar in how much attention they demand just to remain current: data science (pure Lukides), software dev, frontier AI, science fiction, video games, and certain medical fields… they’re deep and wide.

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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 8h

A ton of this in mainline analytics as well. I can’t imagine engaging in any of it…. Especially data … if you aren’t into it.

Because even when you love it, well, nature is an asshole, and didn’t love you. Your curiosity isn’t always rewarded. I have sometimes been sorry to have even asked.

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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 9h

My (adorable) perspective of ‘Murican Reactionary behaviour is that of confusion. Y’all fixin’ for a civil war? Why would you start something that you will never, by any definition, “win”.

One of the best American researchers, Sarah Paine, tells you: “Be careful of who you put on death ground.”

Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 9h

For a majority of Canadians…why would we ever risk returning to solving political problems (of all things!) with violence? What kind of dumb af idiotic way to never solve anything.

If you truly despise somebody, submit them to the horror of the steering committee. That’ll get’em.

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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 9h

Canadian society has a bit of a complex-complex with violence. There’s a set that still carry stories of The Great War and the sequel. Deeper in DNA is the horror of 1837. Fresher still is the fucked up shit people escaped from Ukraine, Syria, Ethiopia, Somalia, Bosnia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Poland…

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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 9h

Thanks @cohereforai.bsky.social for the best open house event of the set. Lots of great people showed up, I learned new things, heard some fantastic thoughtcrime, and the cookies … ruinously delicious. Thank you!

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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 18h

Almost a decade ago, I coauthored a paper asking us to rethink our theory of generalization in machine learning. Today, I’m fine putting the theory back on the shelf.

Reshelving generalization

You don't need a theorem to argue more data is better than less data

www.argmin.net

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Howard Lee @hlee.bsky.social · 21h

👀 Depleted sulfur 33 on the moon may indicate some kind of overturn exchanging materials between the surface & mantle under a thin atmosphere in the newborn moon 🧪⚒️

Astrobiology @astrobiology.bsky.social · 1d

Astrogeology and Astrochemistry: Apollo Samples From 1972 Reveal Exotic Sulfur Hidden In The Moon’s Mantle
astrobiology.com/2025/10/astr... #astrobiology #astrochemistry #Artemis #astrogeology

Astrogeology and Astrochemistry: Apollo Samples From 1972 Reveal Exotic Sulfur Hidden In The Moon’s Mantle - Astrobiology

When astronauts returned from NASA’s final Apollo Moon mission in 1972, some of the samples they collected were sealed and carefully stored away

astrobiology.com

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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 21h

Assuming that bi-directional means partner, as opposed to rivalry, yeah, every ecosystem that delivers a value prop to a customer has partnerships. And rivalries.

There is a solid question here about expectations. The assessment of overbuild or under build hinges on it.

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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 1d

Graeber wrote a few pages on the reaction LEO has to puppets in particular.

It is peculiar. Why should puppets, in particular, cause such reactions?

The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 1d

The advisor from SimCity hollers at the player, "YOU CAN'T LET A FROG DANCE EROTICALLY AT YOUR SWAT TEAM! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!" The typeface is Chicago but the city is Portland.

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 1d

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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 1d

“Our model assumes a consistency condition in which actions in the hidden set dominate those outside. This captures settings such as debate, where a subset of arguments consistently outperforms irrelevant ones, but may be restrictive in other domains.“

AI Firehose @ai-firehose.column.social · 1d

Researchers tackle the "hidden game problem," crafting algorithms that leverage sparse strategies in vast games, enhancing AI alignment. Their approach accommodates regret minimization and efficiency, allowing fast convergence to equilibria in complex AI debates. https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03845

The Hidden Game Problem

ArXiv link for The Hidden Game Problem

arxiv.org

Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 1d

It surely isn’t fair to compare quality of life between 1850 and 2025 and relate it directly to inflation-adjustments. Electric light is better than candles.

The state of Marketing Science in 1850 versus 2025 isn’t even close.

Why are people less happy?

*cackles programmatically*

Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 1d

“I don't want to die on this hill. I think this is hill is dumb. I don't even want to be on this hill. I don't think this hill should exist. I have just found it impossible to ignore.”

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 2d

i set up an extra blog to dump my trash in. anyway this may prevent me from further engaging on this subject

gyges-blog.ghost.io/robot-slur-d...

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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 1d

Victor emphasizes how predictable and stable Ontario is. “We follow the rule of law.”

Yes.

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 3d

Started listening to excellent “The Last Invention” and the debate among AI experts over threat of super-intelligence. Am struck by the recurring presumption that AI will seek to dominate, when that tendency in some humans was likely forged by evolutionary pressures not central to AI development.

EP 1: Ready Or Not

Podcast Episode · The Last Invention · S1 E1 · 35m

podcasts.apple.com

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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 2d

And I’m not even standing on the shoulders of giants…I’m likely around the bulge. Good stuff. Hot.

And I see fog.

I’m not saying a bubble sort is conscious any more than a LLM though.

I can’t explain hidden goals of anything (?) given the incertitude (?) of the fabric (?) itself (?)

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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 2d

To what extent can an excited LLM be aware of its own goals? Or a bubble sort for that matter? And if the jitter is coming from the Wiener Function (You’re a Wiener Baby!) then what is the goal behind that function?

a woman in a red dress is holding a pair of goggles in her hand

ALT: a woman in a red dress is holding a pair of goggles in her hand

media.tenor.com

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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 2d

My extremely limited knowledge of how energy flows through the fat in my skull … I strongly suspect that there is ample opportunity for all sorts of parts of ~”me”(TM) to play.

To what extent am I even aware of goals hidden from me? I’m not even aware of which cells are fighting cold virus…

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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 2d

I’m still ankle deep in this. I’ve got a controlled environment. I’m standing on 170+ years of mathematical science and 50+ years of machine readable data techniques.

My limited understanding of what happens to information as it passes through excited stone is that there is a chance for play.

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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 2d

The Michael Levin material can cause upset among those with… entrenched paradigm? Maybe? And at that risk: I echo: hidden goals.

The emergence of hidden goals … how anything seems to play … is pretty neat.

thoughtforms.life/what-do-algo...

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MFCarter @mfcarter.bsky.social · 2d

We remember him not just because of what happened, but because we refuse to let hate win. Because love deserves safety. Because no one should be hurt for being who they are.

This isn’t history. It’s a reminder. Be loud. Be kind. Be the reason someone feels safe. #LGBTQ+

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Christopher Berry @cjpberry.bsky.social · 2d

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 2d

The Relative Oceanic Niño Index (RONI) continues to show our gradual shift to more La Niña-like conditions in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Seasonal forecast models still highlight a La Niña emerging through this coming boreal winter

Graphic updated in near-real time at zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

Time series of the relative oceanic nino index (RONI) from 1950 to 2025. Labels are shown for El Nino or La Nina conditions. There is significant variability over time.

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