Andrew D Wilson

Every time doing a website at work comes up I think about that cartoon

Anyone know what’s going on in Venezuela these days?

I’m rewatching Fringe and it always amuses me that ‘neuroscience’ is in the credits 😂

Please don’t let these weirdos into government, I really don’t want to have to spend more money at the Home Office

Although I guess “If you come into this country from a Commonwealth nation such as New Zealand” doesn’t have quite the ring he’s looking for

Why is Farage so mad at me personally

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

I could do this, I’m sure

Good point, well made

Ok fine but I think this means you all need to dress sexy and have maybe 2-4 daggers on you at all times

That’s it. We all just need to grow goatees and accept that this is the mirror universe

Lmao

He’s just so fucking bad at politics

Me after recording a lecture for the DL module

Worksheet titled: "Evolving from Eel-less Language" and it includes a column titled "Instead of" with a red X, and a column titled "Say this" with a green checkmark. The "Instead of" column includes sayings like "You're doing it wrong" and "Look at those used condoms in the water!" The "Say this" column includes sayings like, "You're grabbing an eel by the tail" and "Hey! Manhattan eels!" I don't have the space here to list all of them. But each expression in the "Say this" column is a bonafide (read that in a Wharvey Gal's accent) historical eel metaphor. We'd all be better off if we talked more about eels.

We're all trying to be careful with our language, so as not to offend, or not to lose federal funding for talking about paragraph transitions.

To help you out, here's a worksheet to guide you in swapping out troublesome phrases for real, historical eel expressions.
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I think you're right. I think it's also that academic move of 'look I do actually know the field' before going after something. But I agree with Abeba that it's probably worth reducing

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This whole thread is a very important insight as to why getting information from an LLM, even if you are dutiful and vigilant, corrodes your ability to ascertain what is true or not

** LLMs do not provide the info you need in order to evaluate truth. **

The fact that this is their worst fear makes me move further away from Labour

AI is like guns - the very real and baked in harms outweigh the possible acceptable use cases so much that it should be ok to just say ‘ok we can’t have those use cases’ or find other ways

I’m involved with a small working group on developing an AI policy and a) most of the group notes so far do this and b) I even found myself doing it because apparently I’ve internalised the framing. This post has reminded me to see the frame as well as the problem

“Your critique is valid for the current state of thing but not about this possibility a company sold me on so your argument is invalid” is just not something an editor should allow through peer review

Yeah, this framing all begins with assuming that the existence of AI and the claims by the various companies must be taken as the given, rather than as something that also needs to be justified and accounted for. They’ve done a great PR job, I’ll give them that

Wait, Britain has politics as well?? Christ, when will it end

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My 3D glasses are acting up.

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

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Why a man with a fragile ego and inability to take a loss would choose ACADEMIA then POLITICS as a career is beyond me.

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