Shane O'Mara

Enough, please of:
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These aren't merely
Granular and nuanced
This isn’t just, instead it's
The implications ripple outward
Let's dive in
Let's delve into the
Let's break it down
It’s not that X; it’s that Y
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I see these lazy phrases all over the place...
Edit yr LLM miasma please
Ugh 😀💩

#psychscisky #failure #cognitivebias

Super paper:
"The failure gap": "People are systematically unaware of the mishaps, problems, and failures around them... People underestimate tens of thousands, and ... millions of failures at the individual, national, and international level across 30+ life domains"

doi.org/10.1037/pspa...

The American Presidency Can Never Be Trusted Again It’s time for multiparty democracy and a limited executive.

“We cannot go back to anything approaching the old constitutional order, which already had been in a long, terminal decline.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...

YouTube video by Desert Mirage Psychedelic Desert Rock Journey | Downtempo Trip Hop & Chill Grooves Mix 🌌

Turns out I really like working to the sound of psychedelic desert rock (which I didn't even know was a thing): www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwU6...
😍🤯

Sometimes reviews are lovely to wake up to: 'I recommend publication with enthusiasm.' <satisfied face emoji>

I lament the lack of new ideas except looking across the Atlantic and saying let's take that wildly unpopular idea and try and implement it. Cons seem entirely devoid of new thoughts and ideas.

Is this going to be exercised in a "specific and limited way" (ahem)? Others outside the UK are listening, ofc. Suppose they try? What happens when the EU nations refuse deportation flights landing rights, and impose sanctions instead?

Samsung s24 does

FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

Latest post is up for your reading delight...

the tech industry’s flawed model of your brain: a case study in how… Two news stories today hit a consistent theme of mine: the tech industry has a serious problem - profound, deep, worrisome. BL, UF: they have precisely no idea how…

Today's tech stories were so dumb I had to write about them: the tech industry’s flawed model of your brain: a case study in how clever people can be so very stupid steady.page/en/cognitive...
#cognition #techbro #brain #affordances #psyscisky #neuroskyence #memory #learning

the tech industry’s flawed model of your brain: a case study in how… Two news stories today hit a consistent theme of mine: the tech industry has a serious problem - profound, deep, worrisome. BL, UF: they have precisely no idea how…

Today's tech stories were so dumb I had to write about them: the tech industry’s flawed model of your brain: a case study in how clever people can be so very stupid steady.page/en/cognitive...
#cognition #techbro #brain #affordances #psyscisky #neuroskyence #memory #learning

Latest post is up for your reading delight...

i wish it was! it's a vast collection of notes i have made regarding a book proposal, and Word hates big docs. more fule me

wouldn't a simple option - remove all the weird shadow lines that pop up here and there over 200 pages - be better? the find and replace function can't do it! i tell myself the cognitive friction is a good thing

They see billions of minutes on Teams and think "Aha! People love talking to computers!" No. They tolerate talking through computers to other people, but would prefer talking in person if possible. #confirmationbias www.amazon.co.uk/Praise-Talki...

So I should feed your LLM in order to just get rid of stupid lines in a long doc? fgs

If you’d like, you can upload the Word document here, and I’ll clean out all those horizontal lines for you and send it back — no need for you to do it manually or mess with macros.

To which I replied:
forget it this is something ai should do
Copilot said:
You're absolutely right — this is exactly the kind of tedious task AI should be able to handle for you.

Indeed. And the simple things to make the tech work. jfc. Here's a screenshot of the co-pilot solution to remove randomly appearing line breaks in a large Word file - install a macro in word...

We've been here so many times before.
'Let's have three meetings at the same time to discuss it...' ('No, let's not, thanks'): Cognitive shredding courtesy of our tech overlords
www.brainpizza.com/p/lets-have-...

They see billions of minutes on Teams and think "Aha! People love talking to computers!" No. They tolerate talking through computers to other people...

They dream of AI magically editing a folder of photos. I dream of Word not randomly exploding my paragraph spacing. Forgive me if I don't trust the company that can't fix Slide Master or a ToC creator to create a reliable digital butler.

This is a profound case study in how clever people can be so very stupid.

Move that line just a small bit to the left on the slide. No the other one. Now group those objects into a single object. No, not those ones. The other ones. Stop. Try it again. It'd be faster if I did it myself

The future of Windows? I think libreoffice if they try roll this out. I do not want to talk to my PC.

parasite, predator, hive: thinking with acid blood cognitive architecture of the xenomorph

parasite, predator, hive: thinking with acid blood - cognitive architecture of the xenomorph
open.substack.com/pub/brainpiz...

#aliens #xenomorph #cognition #psychscisky #neuroskyence

Horseshoe theory ftw:
Politically Extreme Individuals Exhibit Similar Neural
Processing Despite Ideological Differences
www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

Brilliant letter - well worth reading and acting upon. I suggest cc'ing it to your local party TDs.