@RyanBruno7287

PhD student in consumer behavior at USC

 Chicago, IL
ryansbruno.github.io/
Joined August 2019
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Trump is really running out of sycophants to hire—a good sign!
Aaron Rupar
@atruparOct 13
OMG she is brutally bad at this
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I will henceforth be using this as an excuse for all future mistakes I make around my partner
Jay Van Bavel, PhD
@jayvanbavelOct 12
Interacting with attractive women makes men stupid. The researchers found that even a few minutes with the attractive woman was enough to make the students slower and less accurate on the test. The more attracted they were, the worse their results. They also studied the effects on women students of being in the company of handsome men, and found the test scores were unaffected. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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My bias is to agree with AI-sympathetic posts bc doomers annoy me, but this seems not smart. Sure, if you have already worked everything out prior to writing then go for it. But this is never ever the case. Writing shapes thinking just as much as thinking shapes writing
Aella
@Aella_GirlOct 12
as soon as AI is good enough to write blog posts in my voice as good as I would have written them, i intend to use AI to do so. I know what I want to say, and I could say so much more if I didn't need to manual labor the words out one by one
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To be charitable: maybe it depends on the content!
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Trump has always been shockingly insightful about the nature of the relationship between him and his audience
Acyn
@AcynOct 10
Trump: I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap
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interesting that smart people can misunderstand moral criticism of elon as criticism of elon as a bad businessman. It seems like it should be easy to keep those ideas separate. Good businessmen and innovators can engage in a lot of lying & conning, and still get things done.
David Deutsch
@DavidDeutschOxfOct 9
samharris.org/episode/SED04F… Hmm. Con-men don't make better rockets that were previously thought impossible. Likewise global internet connectivity.

Sam Harris | #497 - The Confidence Man

Sam Harris speaks with Alex Gibney about his new documentary, Musk.

samharris.org
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Adding “or something like that” after every citation in my article
Arthur Dent@ArthurCDentOct 5
prefixing every adjective in my article with “kinda” to match my authentic voice
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How can I block the “for you” tab
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This is definitely still uncanny valley territory. If I didn’t immediately assume I was talking to an AI, I would think I have been drugged or that I’m going crazy. Impressive step though.
Rutger Bregman
@rutgerbregmanOct 2
Is there any good reason not to criminalize this immediately?
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Fear can bring out our inner child. AI doomerism is doing that to a lot of people. Pinker deals well with that immaturity here:
Claire Lehmann
@clairlemonSep 26
An Open Letter to Scott Alexander From @sapinker quillette.com/2026/09/26/an-…

Steven Pinker Replies to Scott Alexander on AI

The dangers of AI are real, but doomerism may be counterproductive.

quillette.com
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Now that is what i call progress
Aaron Rupar
@atruparSep 22
Trump tells the UN he is officially changing the name of Artificial Intelligence to "Super Intelligence" and says all US government documents will now be changed to refer to "SI"
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It’s not even clear what they are attempting to signal is here
Department of War CTO
@DoWCTOSep 16
The United States will NEVER be an effective altruist country. 🇺🇸
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This is the best thing to happen to the Effective Altruist movement ... ever.
Department of War CTO
@DoWCTOSep 16
The United States will NEVER be an effective altruist country. 🇺🇸
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Having AI try to talk you out of doing a research idea is much more useful than what it does otherwise
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This is absolutely not true and will mislead people. Explanation below.
John B. Holbein
@JohnHolbein1Sep 12
To be clear: Walking away from studies that don’t support your ideas is a form of research misconduct.
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Psuedo-panic about incredible risks, like “AI will kill everyone—no man left standing” undermines the real (although less dystopian risks) that we should be worrying about. @GaryMarcus lays those out here: garymarcus.substack.com/p/no…
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Ryan Bruno retweeted
Arthur Dent@ArthurCDentSep 8
God to Adam: “You are a long-running autonomous agent. Make everything as good as possible. Make no mistakes.”
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The schadenfreude I am seeing here following Arday’s death is extremely gross and shows how truly poisonous this platform is. Incredibly sad story.
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I think the fix here is not to prevent AI detection, but for AI writing to be less stigmatized, and for evaluators to judge a text based on its merits (ai or human) We should not lose sight of the fact that ai writing is not bad bc its is ai and that is bad…
David Brown@dbrownAnalystAug 11
Anthropic new invisible watermark in all AI generated text is great but risks incorrectly attributing original “human” work to AI. If I do the large part of the thinking and generation then I give AI to polish, the work gets wrongly attributable to AI!!
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Ai writing is bad bc it lacks good judgment and cant distinguish between pedantry and insight. That is why you should avoid using it. I don’t see why, if ai accidentally does a good job, that should impact the evaluation of the paper…
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So let the watermarks fly, and reject it if it reveals that the authors are not thinking deeply about their own work. Otherwise, we should celebrate useful cyborg work, IMO
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