Jason Smith
@newqueuelure.bsky.social
physicist messing around with economic theory and science fiction; he/him; ALX; was @infotranecon on twitter; email is this profile's username @ gmail
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econ: https://information-equilibrium.ghost.io/
sci fi: https://innerhorizon.substack.com
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econ: https://information-equilibrium.ghost.io/
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Jason Smith
@newqueuelure.bsky.social
· Feb 23
thread of charts i put up on twitter in 2020 about how i think about "intelligence", why IQ is silly, and why we need a social safety net
let's start: we're born with a neural network that seeks input and has a few innate specialized subnets for things we evolved to do like speak or recognize faces
let's start: we're born with a neural network that seeks input and has a few innate specialized subnets for things we evolved to do like speak or recognize faces
would be funny if
• gerrymander fragile to 2026 blue wave
• oops all D's
• trump, roberts impeached
(this is the darkest timeline so probably not but still)
• gerrymander fragile to 2026 blue wave
• oops all D's
• trump, roberts impeached
(this is the darkest timeline so probably not but still)
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has granted a stay, allowing Texas to use its new congressional map in 2026, delivering a major win for President Donald Trump and his unprecedented national effort to rig the upcoming midterm elections.
SCOTUS Allows Texas to Use Racially Gerrymandered Map in 2026 Midterm Elections
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
would be funny if
• gerrymander fragile to 2026 blue wave
• oops all D's
• trump, roberts impeached
(this is the darkest timeline so probably not but still)
• gerrymander fragile to 2026 blue wave
• oops all D's
• trump, roberts impeached
(this is the darkest timeline so probably not but still)
money sector is where the money's at
December 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM
money sector is where the money's at
google news: look, 3I/ATLAS!
me: see fewer stories like this
google news: but 3I/ATLAS tho
me: see fewer stories like this
google news: ok how about 3I/ATLAS?
me: see fewer stories like this
google news: crank at harvard talking about 3I/ATLAS
me: see fewer stories like this
google news: supermoon?
me: see fewer stories like this
google news: but 3I/ATLAS tho
me: see fewer stories like this
google news: ok how about 3I/ATLAS?
me: see fewer stories like this
google news: crank at harvard talking about 3I/ATLAS
me: see fewer stories like this
google news: supermoon?
December 4, 2025 at 11:08 PM
google news: look, 3I/ATLAS!
me: see fewer stories like this
google news: but 3I/ATLAS tho
me: see fewer stories like this
google news: ok how about 3I/ATLAS?
me: see fewer stories like this
google news: crank at harvard talking about 3I/ATLAS
me: see fewer stories like this
google news: supermoon?
me: see fewer stories like this
google news: but 3I/ATLAS tho
me: see fewer stories like this
google news: ok how about 3I/ATLAS?
me: see fewer stories like this
google news: crank at harvard talking about 3I/ATLAS
me: see fewer stories like this
google news: supermoon?
Rehashing the hits, but here's 6000 words from me on MMT weirdness
December 3, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Rehashing the hits, but here's 6000 words from me on MMT weirdness
how much we wanna bet there is going to be some ai manipulation
*LEAVITT SAYS HER TEAM IS RELEASING TRUMP MRI RESULTS
*LEAVITT: TRUMP MRI WAS PREVENTATIVE CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING
*LEAVITT: TRUMP'S CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM SHOWS EXCELLENT HEALTH
*LEAVITT: TRUMP ABDOMINAL IMAGING PERFECTLY NORMAL
*LEAVITT: EVERYTHING EVALUATED IS FUNCTIONING W/ NORMAL LIMITS
*LEAVITT: TRUMP MRI WAS PREVENTATIVE CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING
*LEAVITT: TRUMP'S CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM SHOWS EXCELLENT HEALTH
*LEAVITT: TRUMP ABDOMINAL IMAGING PERFECTLY NORMAL
*LEAVITT: EVERYTHING EVALUATED IS FUNCTIONING W/ NORMAL LIMITS
December 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
how much we wanna bet there is going to be some ai manipulation
walked down king st. in alx this morning and saw a historical sign about the streetcars that used to run along it that were removed to accommodate cars — mass adoption of a new technology restructuring our lives causing problems we are dealing with to this day
immediately thought of the push for ai
immediately thought of the push for ai
December 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
walked down king st. in alx this morning and saw a historical sign about the streetcars that used to run along it that were removed to accommodate cars — mass adoption of a new technology restructuring our lives causing problems we are dealing with to this day
immediately thought of the push for ai
immediately thought of the push for ai
• burn 300 kcal on the peloton
• immediately consume 300 kcal of cheese
• immediately consume 300 kcal of cheese
a man in a lab coat with a stethoscope stands in front of a green screen that says health
Alt: a man in a lab coat with a stethoscope fades in before a green screen with an approximation of a cardiac rhythm that says "helth"
media.tenor.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
• burn 300 kcal on the peloton
• immediately consume 300 kcal of cheese
• immediately consume 300 kcal of cheese
"no ceiling" doesn't exactly scream elite accountability to me
November 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"no ceiling" doesn't exactly scream elite accountability to me
losing my mind reading a skeet "old enough to remember" that "paying for cable" meant "there were no commercials"
obviously not old enough to have seen an itemized cable bill listing the channels with commercials you were paying for
obviously not old enough to have seen an itemized cable bill listing the channels with commercials you were paying for
November 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
losing my mind reading a skeet "old enough to remember" that "paying for cable" meant "there were no commercials"
obviously not old enough to have seen an itemized cable bill listing the channels with commercials you were paying for
obviously not old enough to have seen an itemized cable bill listing the channels with commercials you were paying for
long time fans of "the floor is lava" are unhappy about the bluey generation flowing into their caldera
A game where you can do anything and they’re mad that people are doing anything.
November 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
long time fans of "the floor is lava" are unhappy about the bluey generation flowing into their caldera
also might indicate who should really be replaced by ai
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
also might indicate who should really be replaced by ai
personally i don't like the feeling that ai is chipping away at the epistemological foundation of reality
Microsoft's head of AI doesn't understand why people don't like AI, and I don't understand why he doesn't understand because it's pretty obvious
Microsoft's head of AI doesn't understand why people don't like AI, and I don't understand why he doesn't understand because it's pretty obvious
Is it really "mindblowing" that people are skeptical of software that consistently doesn't do the things we're told it can do?
www.pcgamer.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
personally i don't like the feeling that ai is chipping away at the epistemological foundation of reality
In light of horse discourse that @faineg.bsky.social started I thought it might be relevant to show baby Jason on a horse in the 80s (survived; no injuries).
November 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
In light of horse discourse that @faineg.bsky.social started I thought it might be relevant to show baby Jason on a horse in the 80s (survived; no injuries).
Totally tangential but this just made me think of the photo postcard my great grandfather (1889-1989) got made of him with a mule and in the text to my great grandmother on the other side he captioned it “me stroking my mule heh heh”.
This is also a good question - what percent of the total population was in regular contact with horses (as rider or attendant/carer/catcher) as opposed to the percent in regular contact with cars? Again, I assume notably lower, but how much lower?
Just being pedantic and ignorant here but I wonder what percentage of people had regular access to/ownership of horses compared to the percentage now who have access to/ownership of cars. Horse/human ratio vs. car/human ratio.
November 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Totally tangential but this just made me think of the photo postcard my great grandfather (1889-1989) got made of him with a mule and in the text to my great grandmother on the other side he captioned it “me stroking my mule heh heh”.
Reposted by Jason Smith
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
new topology example to replace the played-out donut/coffee-cup
do the spiracles mean insects are topologically planar?
November 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
new topology example to replace the played-out donut/coffee-cup
going to upset everywhere else on earth by thanksgivingposting while upsetting this country by making thanksgiving ribs
November 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
going to upset everywhere else on earth by thanksgivingposting while upsetting this country by making thanksgiving ribs
i love living in the universe where major publications can just write the most unhinged twitches of thoughts divorced from reality as long as they are conservative but, say, labelling fascism as fascism or bigotry as bigotry is considered uncivil
November 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
i love living in the universe where major publications can just write the most unhinged twitches of thoughts divorced from reality as long as they are conservative but, say, labelling fascism as fascism or bigotry as bigotry is considered uncivil
remake of wall-e except the earth is covered with datacenters and lasercom ground stations; all solar powered tho
November 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
remake of wall-e except the earth is covered with datacenters and lasercom ground stations; all solar powered tho
and a very muggy thanksgiving eve to everyone in the DMV
November 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
and a very muggy thanksgiving eve to everyone in the DMV
noise floor hypothesis continues to hold up
November 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
noise floor hypothesis continues to hold up
Reposted by Jason Smith
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
good illustration of what can go wrong if you try to extrapolate microscale causality to the social macroscale
while it's clear the one on the right came before the one on the left in time, it's also clear the one on the left is an essential element of the social cause of the one on the right
while it's clear the one on the right came before the one on the left in time, it's also clear the one on the left is an essential element of the social cause of the one on the right
November 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
good illustration of what can go wrong if you try to extrapolate microscale causality to the social macroscale
while it's clear the one on the right came before the one on the left in time, it's also clear the one on the left is an essential element of the social cause of the one on the right
while it's clear the one on the right came before the one on the left in time, it's also clear the one on the left is an essential element of the social cause of the one on the right
can't really see the point of either of these men being on tv at this stage in the collapse of the fruits of the enlightenment
TAPPER: You were the deciding vote that allowed RFK Jr to ascend to the role of Health Secretary. Did you give him too much credit?
CASSIDY: The fact is the scientific community agrees that vaccines are safe. That's all I can say.
CASSIDY: The fact is the scientific community agrees that vaccines are safe. That's all I can say.
November 23, 2025 at 10:36 PM
can't really see the point of either of these men being on tv at this stage in the collapse of the fruits of the enlightenment
the chloroplast is the capitalist factory of the plant cell
November 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
the chloroplast is the capitalist factory of the plant cell