@flourish.org.bsky.social
Coercing LLMs into understanding software product teams. Cohost on "Imagine an apple" podcast about our inner experience. Trustee of London College of Political Technology (soon).
I've had fun running Land Talks this last year, and we're ending it with a pub quiz.
If you're in London two week's on Tuesday, and fancy a more relaxing and social evening, with people who want to improve Britain's land system, see you there!
luma.com/c5944qgc
Really happy to interview @michaelashcroft.com on my podcast "Imagine an apple" about the inner experience of Alexander Technique.
What is it like to experience “open awareness”? What’s the difference between doing and non-doing?
Really enjoyed this one!
zencastr.com/z/ST9vDWiJ
I found the book very emotionally connecting, making me warm and connected to the variety we have as humans.
05.10.2025 16:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It's about how people think in lots of varying circumstances - from schizophrenia to playing the guitar. All based on a random mind-sampling technique, which is more like a therapeutic practice than a psychology questionnaire.
05.10.2025 16:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
New season of my podcast "Imagine an apple" starting. Today is my co-host Vynn interviewing me about my new favourite book...
zencastr.com/z/MlzU79lP
(more in thread)
Times of day when I wake up from a dream and react well enough to record a description of it.
02.10.2025 18:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot is a quote from Hurlburt's writeup of someone who most of the time has no particularized inner experience.
hurlburt.faculty.unlv.edu/ieo/mel/mel%...
My review of Silksong and the difficulty discourse around it... It doesn't need an easy mode, it needs a *hard* mode.
People with naturally good reactions and observation skills are finding it too easy.
They need a hard mode to make it as hard as it is for me!
If you're in London - my third evening of lightning talks about Radical Land Policy is next Tuesday - have a look at the Luma page to see the speakers!
luma.com/v8knl21z
Agreed, each metaphor is getting closer, more like a simile!
And I was having a long conversation with @berbank.bsky.social about the whole thing being compression just yesterday... Hadn't thought about the scientific method being that, but it is.
We're doing that a bit with LLMs too. There's something very architecturally different about human minds that we still don't know/understand. LLMs help solidify things we knew anyway about the mind (it is made by composing trillions of connection weights), and give a feel for that. That's all.
28.08.2025 05:42 — 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Julian Jaynes' The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind has a brilliant opening chapter explaining how we *always* make simile's of current technology to the human mind. e.g. It's like a steam engine.
28.08.2025 05:42 — 👍 22 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0The various Anthropic interpretability papers a least give a hint at how it is doing it - with imagination of the few features they document scaled billions of times.
Yes, humans are similarish networks, and part of what we do is clearly "LLM-like". I wouldn't stretch this too far though.
If you're in London, and think land policy needs to be more radical, come to Land Talks #2, a second evening of lightning talks I'm co-organising.
First three speakers - on the Postcode Address File, Freehold and Yellowstone (TV show) - are up:
lu.ma/cthbcn45
If you're in London, and think land policy needs to be more radical, come to Land Talks #2, a second evening of lightning talks I'm co-organising.
First three speakers - on the Postcode Address File, Freehold and Yellowstone (TV show) - are up:
lu.ma/cthbcn45
TheyWorkForYou is now on Bluesky! Here's a few things coming up, and ways you can help us over the next few weeks www.mysociety.org/2025/05/14/t...
14.05.2025 11:50 — 👍 6 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
Great to be at the inaugural Land Talks
Lightning talks on land in art, Scotland's 'log cabin conundrum', building on MoD land and more
with @flourish.org
I'm organising three lightning talk evenings in Farringdon on Tuesday evenings, about radical land policy and digital tech. They're called "Land Talks".
lu.ma/mm4dg8fy
Please sign up, follow the Luma calendar, and share this with others who want to help improve how property works in Britain!
I'm organising three lightning talk evenings in Farringdon on Tuesday evenings, about radical land policy and digital tech. They're called "Land Talks".
lu.ma/mm4dg8fy
Please sign up, follow the Luma calendar, and share this with others who want to help improve how property works in Britain!
Just learned from @flourish.org’s “imagine an apple” podcast that permanent musical soundtracks are part of some people’s inner experience and here is another one!
31.01.2025 04:54 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Love the new "Imagine an apple" podcast episode with my friend Anna.
I'm excited to cover both the topics of what happens in your mind while navigating a city, and of imagination while programming.
Plus Vynn asks questions about names and faces.
Those kinds of practical uses of imagination are easy and fun to talk about, and potentially help people learn ways to improve their lives by improving their minds.
zencastr.com/z/CCEuZGjW
Do get in touch if you use your mind in similar interesting ways!
Love the new "Imagine an apple" podcast episode with my friend Anna.
I'm excited to cover both the topics of what happens in your mind while navigating a city, and of imagination while programming.
Plus Vynn asks questions about names and faces.
Step one of understanding Bluesky's protocol. Resolve your handle into the unique identifier your account has - you can just make the URL to do that in your browser:
bsky.social/xrpc/com.atp...
Multiple people getting engaged. It's cute!
And I went to a December wedding. Is winter the romantic season now?
Is there something like Just watch but for audiobooks?
That will tell me what platforms I can buy one on!
(Don't want to use Audible)
Absolutely disgrace. Years of trying to lock kids up for Napster, discontinuing movies because of music rights, YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A CAR promo bullsh*t and they're ready to give it ALL away to big tech billionaires
18.12.2024 17:43 — 👍 2687 🔁 1206 💬 34 📌 23Just wrote to my MP for the first time for years about this...
AI is a useful technology, but it is both unfair and harmful for the supply of training data, to break copyright law "because AI".
Hope you can do something with the podcast, really like it! Would love to hear you guest on the last episode even if it ends!
17.12.2024 21:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes, the politics matters a lot too.
But just because previous platforms were owned by one corporation doesn't mean all future platforms have to be as well.
The technology can give options to the politics that it didn't previously have.
