iamworshipper.bsky.social
Engineer, Manager, Computational Neuroscienctist, Nerd.
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Journalism has spent the last 15 years eating itself.
Once the trust is gone, it doesn't come back.
It died in 2014 in Scotland and 2016 in the rest of the UK.
And it only has itself to blame.
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Bold of you to assume I ever learned an opening!
If I don't know what I'm doing, my opponent is definitely out of book too!
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How are we blaming it on DeepSeek?
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"Go eat a measuring cup" would be rather niche
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Taking what I do know (Scottish politics) the unionist vote is essentially a massive swing vote, getting behind the candidate most likely to beat the SNP.
Anyone younger than retirement is less wedded to a party and more to ideas now.
End of party politics and rise of issue based voting?
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See also the Labour bods utterly convinced that the "natural order" has reasserted itself now that they won a few seats.
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Pretty much anyone with a Twitter account had their say during the indy debate as to whether Scotland was actually needed by a national party in order to win Westminster (answer: No)
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There was a big discussion about it in 2014 up here.
Turned out most of what the politicos claimed wasn't true so you know... :shrugs:
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What? No instructions not to eat the glass?? They are just begging for a lawsuit!
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As soon as you see a new manager has an MBA, your heart sinks.
The only upside is you know they won't last long enough to do too much damage before they bungee back out.
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There's a lot of "paying in advance" going on.
The assumption is that if they fall in line, Trump and co won't go after them.
I feel it's flawed logic, but given the past, you can see why they think that way.
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It's going to take 2 generations to fix.
We've raised a generation of workers who understand that hard work and pay aren't linked.
If you work hard, your reward is more hard work.
Until work actually pays again, productivity is never going to increase.
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Adagio for Strings and doesn't think of the trance version?
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Science and "tax payers needs" are very very very different things!
ROI is the worst way to make progress. It puts the decision making in the hands of people who don't understand the science.
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So what's the definition of "big tech"?
Because at some point that's basically just saying "the modern world"
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I don't believe you.
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"Not again"
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You could say the same thing about writing in the papers though.
The "algorithm" in that case is just pre baked.
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He's a troll dude. Block him and move on.
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What if we don't like our bot families???
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This dude... This is the one who hurt me...
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Nobody actually wants to push the copyright aspect because of the implications.
If LLM makers have to pay for the content they use for learning, why shouldn't authors?
Did you read a book? Well you learned from that, pay me.
Do we want books "licenced" the same way TV / film is? Really?
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Sure ask for the docs. There's no way on earth Twitter gives them the real ones...
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We don't even have a good working definition of human intelligence that doesn't infuriate 30% of neuroscientists immediately...
If we cannot recognise it in ourselves, how can we recognise it in a machine?
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Many points here.
1. Edinburgh private schools are less expensive due to competition, so the extra 20% is less.
2. Most schools need a term's notice so the real figures won't be apparent until after the summer.
3. Two Scottish private schools have already closed this year.
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Not just the billionaires. Look at the Brewdog founders. Punk to Tory in a very short space of time once a bit of money was coming in.
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And yet when the same media outlets are spouting unionist nonsense about ScotGov, they are treated as utterly infallible by Labour types.
So enough of the hypocrisy please. You are reaping what you sow.
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As opposed to when Labour call for every ScotGov minister to resign whenever it's too windy for the boats to sail?
They should enjoy this nonsense, they've supported it for the last decade plus up here.
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Does that mean the flow of money through NI propping up the unionists in Scotland ending? Or is this only for causes they are on the other side of?
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Just don't do an NPFIT.
Actually define what you want to get out of the program before splashing the cash out for it.
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Scotland laughs at your coke drinking habits!!
(We're the only country where Coke is sold and it isn't the #1 soft drink. Irn Bru is instead!)
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There's not actually a big gap policy wise between the last government and this one...
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I mean... That's only a small step away from calling for the guillotine right?
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1. Only matters if you are willing to invade half the world to get your way.
2 and 3. Only matters if the big tech is itself credible.
The US nationalistic view of itself is really rather skewed...
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Wave a freshly baked research grant in the quad...
They can't resist the smell of one of those.
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Because it was a tacit admissions that the results have been "tweaked" for years anyway...
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So while Gen AI (chat gpt and it's ilk) are definitely expensive toys that don't really move technology on, we should be wary of reacting to the hyperbole around it all.
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Compare that to, for example, Air Conditioning. Which uses 20% of electricity consumption globally.
So AI is using about 1/40th of the electricity that Air Con does globally.
A Hot Day in a hot place can collapse electrical grids, AI cannot do that.
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I should also point out that while the numbers are scary, they are *nothing* compared to non-smart technology.
AI (sigh) is using about 25% of the electric consumption of the internet.
The internet globally is about 2% of electricity consumption globally.
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There's a difference between AI and Generative AI.
Generative AI is the new stuff that relies on billion parameter models trained on thousands of GPUs.
AI has been quietly around since the 60s (and in theory since Babbage) and shouldn't really be stuffed in the same bracket.
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These would be the "moderates" who voted for decades of austerity, tax breaks for billionaires, and directly used their votes to get us into this situation?
Yeah, I'm not sure I want those folks anywhere near power again.
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Their own interests? It pretty much looks like you are suggesting their own interests...
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It's the Mail... They'd be writing that headline regardless of what was actually going on.
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Ah but by posting it on American sites, it automatically becomes *good* propaganda by the rules of transitive properties!
Or something, I don't work in real estate....
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I'll never not laugh at Labour repeatedly complaining about the treatment doled out to ScotGov / the SNP, when it's applied to themselves.
You reap what you sow. Enjoy what you created.
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Yes but it's good American propaganda, not the bad foreign propaganda.
So that makes it ok see?
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They would have declared war on half the world "in the lord's name" before the paint had even dried on the new commandments...
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Now do it again...
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It's the new PPP.
Just wait for the eye watering contracts that we'll all still be paying for in 20 years...