wesmcneill.bsky.social
Philosophy Lecturer at the University of Southampton, UK.
Researching -
the epistemology of perception
problems of other minds
explainability in deep neural networks
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enemies of the people, of course ...
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"delving deeply" too god help us
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For my own count, I reckon two ...
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Vance sounded like a twitter thread. No coherence; all whataboutism, topic changing, pestering, baiting. Ugly, furious and vacuous.
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Trump seemed silly today (which is scary given his power). Vance seemd (again) really really scary.
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You're falling. Are you wearing a safety harness, and will it hold your weight?
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Manic reform-lib dem alliance.
Had imagined it when brexit and the LDs were polling so well in the summer of 2019 too!
Seems more likely now than then.
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😅
hehe - never you Aidan; never you.
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Really managing to lose friends and alienate people.
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This is not old.
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We can only wish for such enlightened 'intelligence'!
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That's true in a sense, though there is only so much compute to go around. I'd rather more of it had gone on these things because
I don't think LLMs are particularly innovative and
To the extent that they are I don't think they're particularly useful or exciting innovations.
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Sadly unlike the first the second of these traits is also something we find in humans ...
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Depends on its altitude!
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Just imagine what we could have done if we'd put all that compute into materials design for fusion reactor linings, or protein folding ...
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So it doesn’t matter if you're a company in the US, China, or elsewhere. DeepSeek should be a cue to pivot HARD toward investing in far more efficient methods of AI development. Even if you care nothing about community & climate impacts, it’s just better business. 19/
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Hmmm. Big problem here!
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*She* goes to prison, *he* gets half a trillion dollars ...
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Surely that scary place up near Finsbury Park ...