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Ian Danforth

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AI, Robots, Neuroscience, and Liberal Politics.

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If I were a fan of a show called Everyone But One Punch Man then I'm sure I would have enjoyed Season 3 of that show.

30.12.2025 02:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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WOW! THANK YOU!! โ€” GCN

07.12.2025 20:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 17013 ๐Ÿ” 2813 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 260 ๐Ÿ“Œ 158

I'll just add that it is a privilege afforded to the few to be able to do Science professionally. I wouldn't mind terribly if I got to have my questions answered and didn't have to wait for professional scientists to share my particular curiosity.

08.12.2025 12:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

FWIW I'm actively working on removing humans from nearly every stage of coding. It's still *hard* at the moment, but not impossible.

08.12.2025 12:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I love thinking the word "depolarisation" and then imagining the scintillating cascade of the same that results from doing so.

29.11.2025 07:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A Victorian dinner party where all the servants are advanced humanoid robots.

A Victorian dinner party where all the servants are advanced humanoid robots.

If this is your ideal future too we should hang out.

26.11.2025 02:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I've just now learned that Greene is resigning and it fills my heart with joy. Let us hope a similarly despicable and uncouth character never again enters public service.

23.11.2025 02:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"A multitude of good judges seldom meet together." - Maria Edgeworth

22.10.2025 12:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In Canada it was a No Tyrants protest because many of us quite like our king. And frankly if Trump acted a lot more like Charles things wouldn't be nearly as bad.

20.10.2025 06:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'd give Manifold: Time a shot if you haven't.

20.10.2025 06:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Buffet Index of 217%

Two.
Hundred.
And Seventeen.

๐Ÿ˜ฑ๐Ÿ˜ฑ๐Ÿ˜ฑ

18.10.2025 02:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 14 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Funny how Figure robots look more and more like 1x robots every day

10.10.2025 00:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm waiting for someone to just repurpose a popular bird watching app. "Spotted a flock of Icelandic Redpolls on 3rd street!"

05.10.2025 04:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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05.10.2025 02:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 327 ๐Ÿ” 333 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6 ๐Ÿ“Œ 13

Ooh I want to make a "Replace RL" argument!

03.10.2025 01:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm looking for a dataset of non-stolen videos of good quality taken in many different contexts, with a license that allows academic use.
Something like the MIT Moments In Time dataset but... ethical. No annotations needed.
Any leads?

30.09.2025 13:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I want an AI voice mode that sounds like Stephen Fry, is that so much to ask?

23.09.2025 02:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

melt down the guns
forge the steel into beams
raise the beams to build schools
but first
melt down all the guns

10.09.2025 20:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 56 ๐Ÿ” 7 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

FWIW I really like Google Fi.

11.09.2025 01:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In a punctuated way, yes. Though I'd say the 40 some thousand people who died last year from gun violence, for example, were a corroded part of society that, if we were sane, would cause far more upset.

11.09.2025 01:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It strikes me as an odd but understandable perspective to grant significance to the killing of one person over the killing of tens or hundreds of thousands. They are both bad, it is just that one is comprehensibly bad and the other incomprehensibly bad.

11.09.2025 01:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Imagine you had to purchase a MacBook to use an iPhone. This is how I feel about being required to own an iPhone if I want to use an Apple watch. Infuriating walled garden BS.

11.09.2025 00:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Let it not be said that a stopped clock is not right twice day. I support renaming the DoD to the DoW.

05.09.2025 03:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Anyone here involved in pixel art video games? Nano-banana & Veo3 are now good enough to create and animate assets (with a little glue code). We've crossed a bright line and I kinda want to talk to someone about it.

02.09.2025 12:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If your state hasn't done this yet, call your governor's office as well as top public health official in your state, and request that they do this. If enough people start calling, they will hear us loud and clear!

31.08.2025 22:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 169 ๐Ÿ” 57 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

*House and Garden, apologies.

01.09.2025 01:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Inside the Eclectic Maida Vale Flat of an Antiques Dealer & Interior Designer | Design Notes
Inside the Eclectic Maida Vale Flat of an Antiques Dealer & Interior Designer | Design Notes YouTube video by House & Garden

I had to track this down so for everyone else: That's Adam Bray and this clip is from his appearance on Home and Garden www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GfK...

01.09.2025 01:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 40 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This is not *at all* what I intended to generate with Veo3, but it's actually pretty cute and satisfying to watch, so here you go!

01.09.2025 00:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@maggieastor.bsky.social Unconscionably weak writing on the CVS crisis. People will die or be crippled because of an anti-science faction taking over the CDC. Say this! Point out each and every time that this is a concerted attack on science and good medicine!

29.08.2025 06:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think you'll find most of us are too busy saying extremist Israelis are currently committing genocide to worry about anything else.

26.08.2025 01:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0