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Anders Sandberg

@arenamontanus.bsky.social

Academic jack-of-all-trades.

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Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 6d ago

Solved a Hilbert problem, invented the computer, defeated the Nazis AND, we now know, wrote erotic fiction staring himself. www.cam.ac.uk/stories/alan... The perfect human being.

Alan Turing’s gay short story reveals ‘fun, cheeky’ man

A racy short story by the ‘father of modern computing’ rips up Alan Turing’s ‘isolated mathematician’ image, revealing a playful man overcoming trauma and defiantly embracing his homosexuality.

cam.ac.uk

Anders Sandberg@arenamontanus.bsky.social · 5d ago

I have seen this happen a few times in different fields. It doesn't always work, far from it, but when it does the new thing is usually awesome. High variance strategy with better mean than the respectable approach.

Nobel Prize@nobelprize.org · 6d ago

”I hope this reflects on the really courageous people who joined me in the beginning of this project when no respectable conservative physicists would have joined me, but many talented people did, and that's why I'm here.” - physics laureate Francis Halzen speaking at today's prize announcement.

A illustrated portrait of physics laureate Francis Halzen
Anders Sandberg@arenamontanus.bsky.social · 5d ago

Unexpected benefit of writing a paper together with an LLM: it has boundless energy for actually pre-registering our predictions before running a test and then not getting discouraged when many of them fail. In fact, disconfirming my own ideas is becoming more fun.

Anders Sandberg@arenamontanus.bsky.social · 3w ago

ALLFED research, featured in @livescience.com, examines how an AMOC collapse could affect global food production. Senior Economist Michael Hinge spoke with @saschapare.bsky.social about the findings and what they mean for food-system resilience. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

'There are no easy answers here': New study forecasts a dire dip in food production if key Atlantic currents collapse

Researchers have examined how weakening currents in the Atlantic Ocean could impact global agriculture — and the results are concerning.

livescience.com

Anders Sandberg@arenamontanus.bsky.social · 3w ago

Proofreading one's book by AI is simultaneously a delight and a chore. So many errors everywhere! But also, help finding the tiny boring typos hidden in reference lists only pedants would see, and getting into a philological debate about the proper form of a neologism.

Spreadsheet with proofing issues.
Anders Sandberg@arenamontanus.bsky.social · 3w ago

Interesting and concerning. In an animal experiment the behavior would likely have been interpreted as pain or some similar aversive experience. arxiv.org/abs/2609.16247

The Pain Axis: LLMs Represent Self-Directed Harm and Act to Relieve It

Large language models sometimes behave in ways resembling human emotional responses, and recent work has identified internal representations that may explain this. We ask whether LLMs represent pain d...

arxiv.org

Anders Sandberg@arenamontanus.bsky.social · 4w ago

The "train fruit fly connectomes to do task X" community is fun. In one sense it is "take this topology and train it to do X" with no biological relevance. In another sense it is testing "does this topology have a very useful, pretty general structure for sensing/acting?" gizmodo.com/google-mappe...

Google Mapped a Fruit Fly’s Brain. Now It’s Playing Doom and Super Mario 64

Researchers published a complete map of a male fruit fly’s nervous system, and programmers are already making it play video games.

gizmodo.com

Anders Sandberg@arenamontanus.bsky.social · last mo.

Overhead conversation between a little girl and her parents on the subway, about wedding clothes. She is interested that it involves ties and dresses. Mom tells her that two men can marry, and then they both get to wear a tie. Or two women, two dresses. Girl goes bright: princessmaxxing!