
Graham Shortt
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Graham Shortt
@malaconotus
“Master with distinction in Environmental Philosophy" “Best ears in Yorkshire” “Excellent & friendly” "Literally a giant" “Best contestant ever on Blockbusters”



This by-election is bigger than day to day politics. It’s about stopping Reform’s toxic politics coming to my city. The Greens misleading claims, dodgy bar charts & briefings risk letting them in the back door. Only voting Labour can defeat Reform. My letter to @ZackPolanski 👇🏻






What is Isaac del Toro cooking, is he about to crack too? 🤔 #Kigali2025




Recently, computer scientist Binghui Peng and his team proved mathematically that there may be a hard limit to LLMs’ compositional task-solving abilities. quantamagazine.org/chatbot-softwa…



Vitalik Buterin: AI has a serious chance of becoming the new apex species “A lot of dismissive takes I've seen about AI come from the perspective that it is "just another technology" But there is a different way to think about AI: it's a new type of mind that is rapidly gaining in intelligence, and it stands a serious chance of overtaking humans' mental faculties and becoming the new apex species on the planet.” Vitalik thinks there is a 10% chance AI destroys the world: “AI is fundamentally different from other tech, and it is worth being uniquely careful … AI could literally cause human extinction.” You might think, as Founder of Ethereum, he’d support “polytheistic AI” (many AIs creating checks and balances), but he’s worried about that too: “The main approach preferred by opponents of the "let's get one global org to do AI and make its governance really really good" route is polytheistic AI: intentionally try to make sure there's lots of people and companies developing lots of AIs, so that none of them grows far more powerful than the other. This way, the theory goes, even as AIs become superintelligent, we can retain a balance of power. This philosophy is interesting, but my experience trying to ensure "polytheism" within the Ethereum ecosystem does make me worry that this is an inherently unstable equilibrium … My experience within Ethereum is mirrored by learnings from the broader world as a whole, where many markets have proven to be natural monopolies. With superintelligent AIs acting independently of humans, the situation is even more unstable. Thanks to recursive self-improvement, the strongest AI may pull ahead very quickly, and once AIs are more powerful than humans, there is no force that can push things back into balance.” Big brain (legit polymath) @michael_nielsen agrees: “This seems to me likely to be true, and important. I am very skeptical of "multiple poles" arguments. Information economies are very often winner-take-all or winner-take-most.”




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The Thirlwall Inquiry has published the list of witnesses for next week, which will be the last week of oral evidence. A notable name is that of statistician David Spiegelhalter (last name misspelled in inquiry schedule), due to give evidence on Wednesday 15 January.










Greenland is beautiful!!! 🇬🇱

















