Dr Stylite

So like normal?

Errrr no

Sure but as you know will know that’s a very very tricky talent in prime time situations

Ah ok by ‘government’ I mean current leadership not the current elections.

So sorry to hear of all of this. My sister in law had it a while ago and was no fun at all.

I am thinking that our decision to get the shingrex vaccine was a good idea…

Quoi?

Yeah so this is bring down the government territory if there’s more to come (you woudn’t bet against it) so I think we’ll seem some weird stuff over the next few days.

Nah this has way more legs

The whole thing is 🤯

At this point it seems completely unbelievable that someone won’t have to resign re the PL debacle…

Incidentally, this is a major problem with *theory*.

💯 actually makes me feel sick

Yes so if one assumes things are fundamentally uncertain vs certain on a probabilistic basis (not everything is equally uncertain) but those probabilities move around in quite startling ways…you end up with a v complex changing picture…occasionally crystallized by (say) elections…

Genuinely freaks me out that this is what my phd ended up being about but from a completely different direction.

There you go. I knew you’d be interested.

Choke *1066*

(The essential problem is finding physical substitutes for complicated systems moving over time in unpredictable ways)

I’d be most interested in quantum physics style metaphorical language…

@paulmainwood.bsky.social @gro-tsen.bsky.social

Ah yes so it’s simply impossible not to use metaphorical language (one can debate why that is but it’s broadly true). The challenge is to use better metaphorical language. And the lever stuff is absolutely the worst.

(From Epstein’s perspective the value of PM as a source must have been huge…)

I’m not exactly naive but I’m flabbergasted

Don’t know about you but all the financial crisis era shenanigans are making me feel very cross

What on earth is the sandwich bag thing

Somewhat relatedly I’m a little surprised there aren’t more senior UK public figures inhabiting the files…

I’m going to be very surprised if this isn’t a huge problem!

Nooooo

It’s literally not a hypothesis. It’s a metaphor. Something more and less than a hypothesis.

It’s ofc absolutely no surprise that we seek to explain things in terms of physical phenomena we have collectively observed (~ metaphor).

This looks really interesting