Phillip Rees

(Polio. It's polio)

a man wearing a tank top that says ' i 'm a fighter ' on it Alt: Tyler Durden.

You could try the imaginary friend of the nameless leader of Project Mayhem.

Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…

“Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

I give up, Claude is conscious. Ergo AI developers must face imprisonment or execution for performing medical experiments on their living slave.

Quantum effects in microtubules. Claude doesn't have any. Your move.

academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

Group behind Pathways carbon-capture project changes name to Oil Sands Alliance President Kendall Dilling says work has always had a much broader focus

No more a pathway to net zero. now just an Oil Sands lobbying group.
Surprise! (not surprised)

For as long as there are lightsabres there will be "whom".

Dear Russia,

Iran's fire is making oil prices spike.

Spiking oil prices makes economic problems for us, so we're making it easier for you to sell more oil.

In sum, Iranian military success against us reduces economic pressure on you.

Just, you know, FYI.

Sincerely,
The geniuses leading America

Also, their AI is not smart enough to realize that participating in this makes the data centers that run it prime targets.

Gove only took up his position at The Spectator to give the impression that he's not a participant.

In an article in the Atlantic, Vivian Salama and Jonathan Lemire argue that Trump is not making any claims on Iranian oil and gas. But that's not quite true, is it?

Seems like we could have replaced Glen Beck with an actual toddler.

two women standing next to each other with the words trendizisst visible in the corner Alt: Absolutely Fabulous cast laughing.

I'm currently mainlining Ab Fab on Kanopy.

My brain cannot hold any more of these.
I'm at maxx headroom.

I can't decide if these men are extraordinarily stupid of if they think everyone else is.

I actually can: it is, somehow, both.

They have very rich inner lives to go with their very rich outer lives. Unfortunately they confuse their inner lives with reality and can afford to surround themselves with more confirmations than an Anglican bishopric.

I’m glad someone said this to his face and more of these CEOs need to hear it: If the conversation around tech seems negative now it’s because you, your products, and what they’re doing to our society fucking sucks. You stopped making optimistic technology and unleashed MechaHitler the job killer.

Oracle and OpenAI scrap deal to expand flagship Texas data centre Meta in talks to take up additional computing capacity that the ChatGPT maker will not take up

Oracle and OpenAI scrap deal to expand flagship Texas data centre ft.trib.al/7Ohcdfm

I wonder if they've come to the realization that if their systems are used for target selection then their systems become targets.

Opinion | Anthropic’s Chief on A.I.: ‘We Don’t Know if the Models Are Conscious’

This is bullshit.

"When characters experience anxiety in the text, and then when the model itself is in a situation that a human might associate with anxiety, that same anxiety neuron shows up."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...

a black cat wearing a green cape sits at a table Alt: Cat rolling a die.

Replication experiment with simplified model:

Are you conscious?

Our mental health would be better if we'd stuck with the later.

Large Language Models as Markov Chains Large language models (LLMs) are remarkably efficient across a wide range of natural language processing tasks and well beyond them. However, a comprehensive theoretical analysis of the LLMs' generali...

arxiv.org/abs/2410.02724

Sigh. Let's go back to the Latin.

> The term joke can be found in two different meanings within humor research. ... Etymologically, the word comes from Latin iocus, which means “play” or “game.”

sk.sagepub.com/ency/edvol/e...

I'm working on a book proposal at the moment, the core thesis of which is "Democracy fails not when lies spread, but when verified reality can no longer alter incentive structures." and we're seeing it happen in real time. Which is good for the book, but bad for democracy.

They can't find an essay to plagiarize because woke.

It's really unfair to compare this to Iraq in 2003, at least then they had the decency to put some effort into their lies and deception.

Hegseth will never be over Macho Grande.

This map shows the rudest place names in the world Mapmakers Strumpshaw, Tincleton & Giggleswick create a chart of some of the rudest place names in the world.

Extradition aside Bullshit Hill in Australia would be an appropriate final destination.

www.bbc.com/news/newsbea...

The attire alone won't do it. You need your movements to echo your internal state. Fortunately you have a local resource available.

www.cafereason.com/main/classes...