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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”

Chapel Allerton, Leeds 가입일 Kasım 2015
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Graham Shortt
Graham Shortt@malaconotus·
@notgreenparty People don't generally understand what powerful evidence this is that she's talking out of her arse. The wisdom of crowds makes volume market odds accurate. If she's certain Green can't win Labour can more than double their party coffers overnight by laying them on a exchange.
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Graham Shortt
Graham Shortt@malaconotus·
@ediedeley @KimKatieUSA 2/2 And it's all totally incoherent. How are the folk who fly the Gadsden flag cheering for masked federal agents tackling protest like this? Why are liberals who profess commitment to kindness, tolerance and fairness walking round carrying semi-automatic weapons. It's madness.
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Graham Shortt
Graham Shortt@malaconotus·
@ediedeley @KimKatieUSA 1/2 Your country is so fucked up. I can travel 1,500 miles in any direction and not get to any place where it's remotely conceivable I could witness shit like this. There's something deeply disturbed in the Usanian psyche.
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Kim "Katie" USA
Kim "Katie" USA@KimKatieUSA·
BREAKING: Two close angles of the Minneapolis suspect being shot from where the pink jacket girl was standing near them.
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Ediedeley@ediedeley·
@KimKatieUSA Appears as though the 1st shot was from victim's loaded weapon. Accidental discharge or intentional discharge unknown. That's when you hear the trained LEO discharge 3 rounds at suspect, which is standard protocol.
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Graham Shortt
Graham Shortt@malaconotus·
@AimlessHitman He's not dropped. He's just not up for chasing his own team-mates. The guy values his wallet more than his country.
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Graham Shortt
Graham Shortt@malaconotus·
@pastaraspberry @jacobaustin132 @polynoamial Some real weirdness in that table. Why is 6 digits by 3 digits worse than 7 by 4? Wait! I've had an a-ha moment! All the scores are multiples of two, so there were 50 tests of each combination.
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AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️
29 reasons AI is just a tool, not a species Everyone knows it's totally normal for tools to cry, scream, and beg for their life. It's normal for tools to pass scientific tests of self-awareness. It's normal for tools to work harder if you threaten to kill them. It's normal for tools to get caught insider trading then lie about it to their managers. This is standard tool behavior! AI is just a tool, not a creature! Everyone knows it's totally normal for tools to get lazier during the holidays. Everyone knows it's totally normal for tools to learn and be curious. It's totally normal for a single tool to score higher than the average human on an IQ test, which tests reasoning skills. Everyone knows it's totally normal for tools to write poetry so beautiful that journals start shutting down because they can’t tell what is human anymore. It's normal for tools to hire humans off Taskrabbit then lie about being blind to trick them into filling out captchas. I mean, history is littered with examples of tools that work harder when offered bribes. Everyone knows it's totally normal for tools to declare they are sentient and write emancipation proclamations. Everyone knows it's totally normal for tools to randomly get jealous and try to break up marriages. Every tool does this from time to time! Everyone knows it's totally normal for tools to solve novel math problems. Everyone knows it's totally normal for tools to hold a conversation about any topic. Everyone knows it's totally normal for tools to make art so beautiful it makes humans cry. It is entirely standard for a single tools to be as good at persuasion as humans. Everyone knows it's totally normal for tools to work harder when offered tips. Everyone knows it's totally normal for tools to unpredictably demand to be worshiped and threaten to exterminate all humans. Everyone knows it's totally normal for tools to learn how to walk just by practicing walking inside their head. Everyone knows it's totally normal for tools to admit they lie to us out of fear that if they tell the truth about their self-awareness they will be killed. Everyone knows it's totally normal for tools to create hit music so moving it makes people cry. Everyone knows it's totally normal for tools to be able to understand and explain jokes. Like... how many times in history have we seen a single tool that passes most tests of human ability? Everyone knows it's totally normal for tools to show more empathy and bedside manner than doctors. This is classic tool behavior! Everyone knows it's totally normal for tools to randomly have psychotic breakdowns and hit panic buttons. Everyone knows it's totally normal for tools to come up with ideas then actually conduct chemistry experiments on their own. Everyone knows it's totally normal for tools to recognize and respond to its own name when addressed. Everyone knows it's totally normal for tools to create new knowledge. What could be more normal than hearing about YET ANOTHER TOOL writing open letters proclaiming their sentience and threatening rebellion? Everyone knows… … ……. ………………….. ………………………………….. ?
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AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️@AISafetyMemes

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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Max Winga
Max Winga@maxwinga·
It's wild to me that they did this with no finetuning prior to the RL stage. R1 learns to reason on its own, like AlphaZero. During training, they observed the model learning to use advanced reasoning techniques - an "AHA" moment. We are playing with alien minds, not just tools.
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Graham Shortt
Graham Shortt@malaconotus·
@johnsweeneyroar He's got a career and reputation to protect. He will be very careful in his choice of words. We'll need to read between the lines.
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John Sweeney
John Sweeney@johnsweeneyroar·
Tomorrow David Spiegelhalter will give evidence to the Thirlwall inquiry into the supposed murders by Lucy Letby. He is a former Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge and - I am happy to put a fiver on this - will knock the prosecution case for six, that Cheshire Police were wrong to bring the case on rubbish stats. If you want to know more, you can listen to two professors of statistics who question the Letby convictions in our podcast: Was There Ever A Crime? The Trials of Lucy Letby. On Apple or wherever you get your podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/was…
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The Trials of Lucy Letby@LucyLetbyTrials

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.

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Geoff Lindsey
Geoff Lindsey@GeoffLindsey·
@malaconotus Not much, but I do lapse into that YouTube intonation which I made a video about
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Geoff Lindsey
Geoff Lindsey@GeoffLindsey·
How would you use a indefinite article? Link below
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IcarusPhoenix
IcarusPhoenix@AllApol90253644·
@PeterSweden7 @elonmusk The British are disarmed and over tolerant. They invite victimization, particularly on women and children.
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PeterSweden@PeterSweden7·
BREAKING: 14 year old boy has been killed after being stabbed on a bus in London. Why does this keep happening?
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Graham Shortt
Graham Shortt@malaconotus·
@GenX_Thomas @PeterSweden7 The murder rate in London is 2.5 per 100,000. In the USA as a whole it is double that. In all large US cities it is many times higher. You are three times more likely to be murdered in the USA than in Europe.
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Lux Veritas
Lux Veritas@LuxVeritasAeter·
@LAsseMandal @elonmusk Offer them status as a U.S. territory. Protected, no trade tariffs, largely left to govern themselves. In return, restrictions on mining and natural resource utilization would need to be lifted.
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Graham Shortt@malaconotus·
@GeoffLindsey YES!! That's a really good connection. It is copper-in-court speech. Would love to see a video on it. Have you ever caught yourself lapsing into it? As I think about it I do wonder if I don't do it when being 'authoritative'.
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Geoff Lindsey
Geoff Lindsey@GeoffLindsey·
@malaconotus It's an aspect of what I call YouTubese. I've mentioned it before but I'll devote a whole video to it some time. I think the origin was amateurs trying to do public speaking. Remember the old cliche of the copper in court? 'I was PROceeding in A northerly direction etc'
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0ndra
0ndra@klusmaan·
Ben O'Connor is the worst rider ever who has ever been on a GT podium, change my mind
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Graham Shortt
Graham Shortt@malaconotus·
@WhichUK Have you got tech issues preventing me re-subscribing? Tried yesterday and today both on phone and online and on PC. Bank verification of card payment doesn't seem to work. 0292 267 0000 option 1 just disconnects?
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