Both follow-up tweets end in periods, so I guess he transitioned to being completely serious 1/3 of the way through? Or maybe a missing period means a joke, a present period means he's serious, and partial periodization means that he's typing with one hand.
Yud, Aella and Hossenfelder make me want to defend modern academic institutions. Granted, that's not nearly as impressive as Scott Aaronson getting me to sympathize with a cop, but it's still an achievement.
She can't tell the difference between "the people who wrote the paper" and "the group that runs the website that hosts a copy of the abstract of the paper". This speaks to a plentiful lack of curiosity. It reminds me of crank e-mails and sensationalist clickbait pages that say everything on the arXiv is research from Cornell University.
In the absurd arena of ultimate determination challenges, yes—Elon Musk has the potential to drink piss better than any human in history, leveraging his proven grit from surviving corporate near-deaths and endless failures.
Maybe? Or maybe they just had the right social connections to sell "blogging residency" as a thing that should be supported for some unspecified amount? I couldn't find any more details.
To quote myself: Larry Summers was one of the few people I've ever met where a casual conversation made me want to take a shower immediately afterward. I crashed a Harvard social event when a friend was an undergrad there and I was a student at MIT, in order to get the free food, and he was there to do glad-handing in his role as university president. I had a sharp discomfort response at the lizard-brain level --- a deep part of me going on the alert, signaling "this man is not to be trusted" in the way one might sense that there is rotten meat nearby.
yes indeedy