Jenba's Quick takes

By Jen baik @ 2026-02-25T05:51 (+2)

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Jen baik @ 2026-05-20T23:48 (+2)

Have @Matt Beard and @Mjreard considered having a child and naming it Matt BrEArdon?

Matt Beard @ 2026-05-20T23:55 (+3)

Matt Reardon might actually be the person who counterfactually changed my life more than anyone. So he gets naming rights

Tobias Häberli @ 2026-05-21T07:20 (+5)

So you're saying he reard you?

Tobias Häberli @ 2026-05-21T07:25 (+2)

Junior EAs getting advice that helps them grow: "I'm getting reard on"

Jenba @ 2026-02-25T05:51 (+2)

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Alfred Zhao @ 2026-02-25T14:05 (+1)

What a coincidence! I was just getting annoyed by Financial Times articles that always make up reasons after things happen. It made me realize that most news is exactly what Chomsky calls Manufacturing Consent.

I chatted with an AI about the idea that DNA/RNA arriving on Earth via asteroids is basically a biological Von Neumann machine. So the alien question is actually a strict Existential Risk (X-risk) issue, not a non-pragmatic one.

Also, my first language is Mandarin.