M A Osborne

a lovely coastal scene with a red and white striped lifeguard station on a sandy beach. The foreground shows marram grass in the dunes, whilst offshore wind turbines are visible on the horizon. The dramatic cloudy sky adds atmosphere to the composition.

Copenhagen, 2024

🚨New AI Safety Course
@aims_oxford
!

I’m thrilled to launch a new called AI Safety & Alignment (AISAA) course on the foundations & frontier research of making advanced AI systems safe and aligned at
@UniofOxford

what to expect 👇
robots.ox.ac.uk/~fazl/aisaa/

Thank you! I wasn’t sure about your post and appreciate the explicit confirmation!

I don’t love the description of increasing autism diagnoses as an “epidemic”

As evidence for your theory, staff in shops often initiate conversations with me in English (unlike other customers), and the only reason i can imagine for why they do so is my mask

I am happy to defer to your judgement here—in addition to my visible privileges (gender, height), I’ve only lived in Aarhus, and only for a few months, which is unlikely to be representative

I am pretty sure that @brebis.bsky.social also lives in Denmark. My own 2p: no one else masks here, but I haven’t gotten any grief over my mask, either

Apes smart enough to figure out the various disciplines of complex science explaining how deeply they are screwing up the thin eggshell of biosphere that is their only plausible home, yet too dumb to do anything about it

I just got my Covid booster, and you should, too!

Multilayer pony
My little perceptron

Covid is still out there, and masks still work

21575 (crazy!)

5,290 papers will be published at NeurIPS this year. If you could still get the proceedings in a book, it would be like 50,000 pages long. That’s 14.5 papers a day to read each and every day until the next NeurIPS

Danes keep assuming I am foreign because I am wearing a mask and TBF they’re correct

YouTube video by Jahtari Solo Banton - Music Addict (Jahtari 12")

This one always gets me going

I love this track!

Errr i feel a bit seen by this one

Thank you!

Counterpoint: if you are not pregnant, please also get a Covid vaccine

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I hadn’t heard of this one. thanks for the tip off!

YouTube video by Yellowman - Topic Natty Sat Upon The Rock

The first song from the first album of the first dancehall DJ—first and best

I think it is possible to be very sceptical and resistant to the integration of LLM technologies into every aspect of education and scholarship… while also recognizing that the tools *do* have uses. I think thoughtful proponents could work harder to make those cases to e.g other humanists 1/n

YouTube video by STAND HIGH PATROL STAND HIGH PATROL - Underground Dwellers

New single from Stand High Patrol is hot

This is a lovely street scene showing a group of cyclists waiting at a traffic light in what appears to be a Scandinavian or Northern European city. The image captures about 12 people on bicycles lined up on a dedicated cycle lane, with the photographer also on a bike based on the handlebar visible in the foreground. The urban setting features modern brick buildings, including one with “PWC” signage, wide streets with clear cycling infrastructure, and overhead tram or trolley lines. The cyclists are dressed casually in everyday clothing - jeans, jumpers, and casual wear - which is typical of cities where cycling is a common mode of transport for daily commutes and errands.

More than a dozen cyclists waiting at the lights ahead of me—cycling is quite big in Denmark!

This image captures a peaceful moment by the water, with sunlight dancing across the surface of the sea and creating beautiful reflections. The wooden jetty or dock extends into the calm waters, whilst the rocky shoreline in the foreground is dotted with smooth, rounded stones and patches of green vegetation. The sky shows a mix of clouds and clear patches, creating interesting patterns of light and shadow. The lens flare visible in the upper left adds a dreamy quality to the photograph.

After nineteen years, I am living near the ocean once again, and it feels like the cancellation of a debt

Have now heard the full version of the Linehan Audio, and surprised that people were more bothered about his weird "I'll kill {inaudible threats to unclear person" than the fact that he just straightforwardly says to the cops that kicking trans women in the balls is good and asks if they wouldn't.

There is no email I am reading faster than one that begins “X would like to recall the message…”

my fave type of harrassment i receive is when transphobes accuse me of autogynephilia.

The number of AI accounts I followed that have subsequently revealed themselves as apologists (or worse) for fascism is deeply un-nerving