Chris S

'Which conservative values? Which fucking conservative values?'

People should be REALLY scared by this, it's normalising refusing healthcare to a section of the community for entirely ideological reasons with absolutely no medical reason

The problem is that the old Jon Stewart style of critique no longer works. It relies on incredulous mockery rather than substantive analysis. If you actually listen to him here, the racism and xenophobia are obvious. In his own roundabout way, he’s basically agreeing with Trump.

Media coverage of economic issues at the time bears a lot of the blame.

Could have done with more of these critiques of austerity at the time, it has to be said

Roughly half of OU staff are Assoc. Lecturers. A bit more than 60% of those are women. There are no career development opportunities or career pathways for us.

But cool, a book club.

Happy International Purplewashing Day!

#InternationalWomensDay

Because it is the very real consequence of over a year of going along with Trump and telling him what he wants to hear.

…You don't get to open up philosophically loaded words like "consciousness" and "sentience" and "souls" without actually thinking through what they mean if they apply; it's not all shiny fun happy times of "gee whiz bang! honest to gosh AI!" There's real implications to that label, and I know that…

Now, again to be clear, I don't know that LLM's are or aren't conscious, ensouled, sentient, whatever language you want to use; but I do know that we should be very suspicious of those who a) make money off of people thinking they are [C,E,S,w/e] & b) try very hard to nudge us into thinking they are

This makes for dramatic pictures because its full of flammable liquid, but in strategic terms if rather low value as a target.

Summarising the Israeli government's position, Citrinowicz said: "If we can have a coup, great. If we can have people on the streets, great. If we can have a civil war, great. Israel couldn't care less about the future... [or] the stability of Iran.

But I welcome your explanation of how reducing Iran to a failed state helps the UK.

Starmer would have been better off following the example of Pedro Sanchez or even Carney.

It's simple because the purpose of influencing the US is to avoid the kinds of actions that are damaging to middle powers like the UK - i.e exactly the kinds of actions Trump is now engaged in, which will have both geopolitical and economic effects on the UK and are profoundly unpopular.

Saying 'it's complicated because of the complexity' isn't an answer.

Why do you think it's a complicated position?

It really isn't a complicated position.

.. and was retweeted by a bunch of dangers including the woody allen fan.

Setting this to Dire Straits - "Money for Nothing" is a bit on the nose.

How is this real (sound) ?

.. but have you considered that if we could force them to read newspapers they might change their mind?

i suspect many liberal uk journalists rolled their eyes at this line 6 months ago

Opinion | An Urgent Need to Contain Turkey If the Iranian regime falls, beware Ankara’s regional influence.

In which a Wall Street Journal op-ed explicitly compares Erdogan to the Ayatollah after the fall of Saddam Hussein and implicitly makes the case for an eventual war of aggression against Turkey by the US and Israel.

We tend to find it hard to conceptualise large numbers and this is exactly the same thing from the other end. We don't have a good handle on what percentage of the human condition could be covered by even quite small a percentage of the total texts in existence.

Although I'm not sure 'extract' or even 'abstract' is the right formulation - they've absorbed texts that deal with an arbitrary large number of problems via formulating a plan, and there's a kind of stitching together via analogy going on - which you can sometimes see in reasoning models.

The topology of semantics/meanings of computer languages is much simpler, so we'd expect them to be much better here - so if you are sceptical of their use in programming you should be even more sceptical about their use in "reasoning" their way through prose.

Yeah, except the compression schemes don't necessarily correlate in any way to how a human might summarize the same piece of information - this is why, even with guard rails, things can go awry (because this tests input/output mapping rather than process).

Plausible but somewhat improbable - to extend your compression parallel .. it's analogous to what the JPEG codec might look like if human perception was only a secondary/n-ary consideration.

Hard to do proper analysis when one of your podcast hosts ran the dodgy tactical voting site and the other is one of the most stubborn pricks in existence.

He has a thin veneer of extreme politeness which is occasionally punctured .. and well, at that point it isn't pretty.

Is Trump even that popular with Telegraph readers?