In general? I don't really know. I don't think most people even have well-formed opinions on what I write about. If I were to write a hit piece on myself and wanted to rile a bunch of NYT readers up it would probably be that very little of the US government is responsive to democracy. But then again NYT readers are a separate kind of unrepresentative and uninformed.
In my intellectual circle? At this point I don't even know what that means. The things I say that get the most angry responses on twitter are (1) AI development will slow and (2) legal immigration is good.
I really enjoyed listening to your podcast with Ron Unz (https://www.fromthenew.world/p/ron-unz-the-great-forgetting-of-history), which I think you described as him "steamrolling" you (or something to that effect). There were several points during the episode where you said you'd have to go do some research on what Unz said. It was a while ago so you may not remember, but if you do, did your research end up verifying his claims?
Yeah. The Ukraine claims, including the biowarfare labs, were all confirmed. I think I mentioned that in the intro, but I'm not completely sure. There isn't too much new information about the Covid stuff as you would expect.
I like reading/listening to you as it's clear you're from a shape rotating background. Are you worried substack might eventually turn you into a wordcel?
I mean you're obviously keeping up with machine learning but do you write code much anymore?
I don't really think so. Writing is still very unnatural to me. I thought about writing this for a while so I might make this the first answer in the long form version.
I don't really write code anymore but I still do math for fun. Both turning over some open problems I used to be obsessed with and reading stuff.
The anime reviews convinced me to subscribe. Also, do you ever plan on sharing a resource list for learning math? What do you think of the /sci/ list?
What is the most unpopular opinion you have in general? What is the most unpopular opinion in your intellectual circle?
In general? I don't really know. I don't think most people even have well-formed opinions on what I write about. If I were to write a hit piece on myself and wanted to rile a bunch of NYT readers up it would probably be that very little of the US government is responsive to democracy. But then again NYT readers are a separate kind of unrepresentative and uninformed.
In my intellectual circle? At this point I don't even know what that means. The things I say that get the most angry responses on twitter are (1) AI development will slow and (2) legal immigration is good.
I'm surprised that your answers are so palatable. I was definitely expecting something more to the effect of eugenics, HBD, gender roles, etc...
Well I think population differences are more or less "settled science", as they say. c:
I really enjoyed listening to your podcast with Ron Unz (https://www.fromthenew.world/p/ron-unz-the-great-forgetting-of-history), which I think you described as him "steamrolling" you (or something to that effect). There were several points during the episode where you said you'd have to go do some research on what Unz said. It was a while ago so you may not remember, but if you do, did your research end up verifying his claims?
Yeah. The Ukraine claims, including the biowarfare labs, were all confirmed. I think I mentioned that in the intro, but I'm not completely sure. There isn't too much new information about the Covid stuff as you would expect.
I like reading/listening to you as it's clear you're from a shape rotating background. Are you worried substack might eventually turn you into a wordcel?
I mean you're obviously keeping up with machine learning but do you write code much anymore?
I don't really think so. Writing is still very unnatural to me. I thought about writing this for a while so I might make this the first answer in the long form version.
I don't really write code anymore but I still do math for fun. Both turning over some open problems I used to be obsessed with and reading stuff.