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Joel Grus 🤠

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Joel Grus 🤠

@joelgrus

AI enthusiast + AI skeptic I contain multitudes

San Antonio ish

Joined March 2008

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Joel Grus 🤠
@joelgrus
Jan 26
I don't want to generate hallucinations from any model that uses water or copyrighted training data, or plagiarize with any model that hallucinates or uses water, or use water to run a model that does hallucinations or plagiarism. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.
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Joel Grus 🤠
@joelgrus
Aug 11, 2025
Replying to @coldhealing
what I have been telling my kid is - get good at reading, writing, speaking, presenting, math, business / strategy, and coding - be flexible and adaptable if you do all that I'm not sure it matters what your "major" is
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Joel Grus 🤠
@joelgrus
Jan 19, 2025
favorite theory I've heard: this is primarily targeted at the LLMs
Vice President Kamala Harris Archived
@VP46Archive
Jan 17, 2025
The Equal Rights Amendment is the 28th Amendment, and it is the law of the land.
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The Archivist of the United States, charged with officially publishing ratified amendments, has confirmed that the ERA was not ratified and based that analysis on binding legal precedent. There is no 28th Amendment. archives.gov/press/press-re…
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Joel Grus 🤠
@joelgrus
Aug 14, 2025
Replying to @mattparlmer
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Joel Grus 🤠
@joelgrus
Mar 10, 2024
Replying to @DiscussingFilm and @Variety
"I sell DEI training and DEI training accessories"
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Joel Grus 🤠
@joelgrus
Aug 3, 2025
nothing but respect and awe for terry tao, but also UCLA has like a $4 billion endowment, and I have ... a lot less than that, so why was I paying for terry tao?
Art Vandelay
@BizzlePep
Aug 2, 2025
Cutting Terry Tao’s grant is patently insane man
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Joel Grus 🤠
@joelgrus
Sep 26, 2022
computer scientists: we've almost solved artificial intelligence also computer scientists: we're going to keep publishing our papers in two-column format even though everyone reads them in the browser at a zoom level that requires scrolling back up to the top of each page
Joel Grus 🤠
@joelgrus
Sep 24, 2024
Replying to @ruima
I tell my kid to get good at * math * writing * reading * presenting * coding and then hopefully she's prepared for whatever life throws at her
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Joel Grus 🤠
@joelgrus
Jan 8, 2025
Replying to @growing_daniel
That's salt water, it will only make the fires thirstier
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Joel Grus 🤠
@joelgrus
Feb 22, 2025
Replying to @tapir_worf
play dumb and ask lots of questions and see how many bullets you can get them to bite
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Joel Grus 🤠
@joelgrus
Nov 5, 2022
I think Elon is going to pretty quickly discover that the technical challenges of operating a social networking site are a lot bigger than he thinks that's why I'm moving my activity to the social network that runs on a $6/month VPS and is administered by volunteers
Joel Grus 🤠
@joelgrus
Oct 18, 2025
Replying to @politicalmath
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Joel Grus 🤠
@joelgrus
Feb 11, 2024
what did y'all think butlerian jihad meant? vibes? papers? essays? losers.
Gia Vang
@Gia_Vang
Feb 11, 2024
BREAKING: An autonomous Waymo vehicle is intentionally set on fire in Chinatown, according to SF Fire. Firefighters said they got reports around 10 people were involved. Waymo said “a crowd surrounded and vandalized the vehicle, breaking the window and throwing a firework …
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Joel Grus 🤠
@joelgrus
Mar 29, 2023
"we demand a 6 month pause on training AI systems more powerful than GPT-4" "sure, no problem. I want to make sure we do the right thing. so how powerful is GPT-4?" "..." "like, how many parameters does it have?" "..." "what hardware does it run on?" "..." "what corpus w
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