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Liam Murray 🌎

Liam Murray 🌎

@LiamMurray

Dad, Husband then Jazz, Politics, Guitars, Art History and any other ornamental knowledge that takes my fancy....

Ayrshire, Scotland Katılım Ocak 2009
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Liam Murray 🌎@LiamMurray·
@TomChatfield @mrianleslie This end point - “but is that fundamentally different from what a human brain does?” - comes up again and again in AI discourse and I’ve never seen it satisfactorily answered (in the positive).
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Tom Chatfield
Tom Chatfield@TomChatfield·
@mrianleslie They might! This rapidly goes beyond my expertise. But I think the absence of an inarticulate, conflicted "Real" beyond text and culture would for Lacan be a fascinating absence in the case of LLMs. They're not speaking minds into being to remedy a lack; they are pure discourse.
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Tom Chatfield@TomChatfield·
This feels like a subtle, important point. Role-playing is something people do, imaginatively inhibiting a persona. This doesn't apply to LLMs, which (if I'm extrapolating correctly) in effect subtly constantly shift what they *are* in line with context, weights and prompts.
David Chalmers@davidchalmers42

i agree. claude doesn't role-play the assistant, it realizes the assistant. role-playing and realization are quite distinct phenomena, even at the level of behavior and function. i've written something about this and will post it shortly.

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Liam Murray 🌎@LiamMurray·
Echo this & also think it’s dangerous - the media keep giving him another ‘oh my god, did he really say that?’ moment which boosts his base and just makes the rest of us roll our eyes.
Mhairi Hunter 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇵🇸@MhairiHunter

Every time Donald Trump tweets something crazy people go OMG is this real, he sounds mad. He's always been mad. The evidence that he is nuts was always there. I don't know how anyone can be surprised any more.

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Liam Murray 🌎@LiamMurray·
Bizarre that I need to come to X to get help with my @tescobankhelp credit card. Want to change the date & amount of my DD? Can't be done online....? Seriously, it's like 2005. Can someone help please.
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Dan Wootton
Dan Wootton@danwootton·
BREAKING RIGHT NOW: BBC have SACKED Scott Mills as host of Radio 2's legendary breakfast show after a complaint about his "personal conduct". He was taken off air last Tuesday as bosses investigate. The gay presenter has been at the British Bashing Corporation for over 25 years.
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John King@JohnKingDerry1·
@danwootton Scott Mills sacked by the BBC - and typical BBC, no more to that statement - BBC again, do you never learn anything. Tell us why he has been sacked! We pay his bloody salary, the least you can do is tell us why he is booted out the door. Have you learnt nothing?
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Liam Murray 🌎@LiamMurray·
@SimonMarcusUK @GoodwinMJ It will join the long list of books predicting apocalyptic outcomes in response to societal change over the last 200yrs, with events proving him wrong as it did all the others.
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Simon Marcus@SimonMarcusUK·
@GoodwinMJ The response to this book shows how badly it is needed.
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Matt Goodwin@GoodwinMJ·
In more than 2,000 schools in England today a majority of children no longer speak English as their main language. My critics might not think that tells us something important about what is happening to our country. But I do. And I will not change my view shorturl.at/f5iAJ
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Liam Murray 🌎@LiamMurray·
@v_j_freeman - simply incorrect. Perception is the guiding principle in both instances and it’s clear nobody seriously perceived a ceremony celebrating the end of Eid as anything other than prayer.
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Liam Murray 🌎@LiamMurray·
I’m astounded that people still think like this in 2026, genuinely. What does her clothing choice have to do with anything at all? It’s like dialogue from a film with Rupert as some sort of caricatured Victorian figure.
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Liam Murray 🌎@LiamMurray·
@juliamacfarlane @sama I know and I haven’t missed it; the explicit point I’m making is that pattern recognition (which is all LLMs do) isn’t something akin to ‘using content’.
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Julia Macfarlane
Julia Macfarlane@juliamacfarlane·
@LiamMurray @sama You clearly missed this but I’m talking about the intellectual property of artists, authors and creators whose work was used by LLMs without their consent. And no, they’ve not been compensated
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Liam Murray 🌎@LiamMurray·
….after it had been rolled up and headed for the east end 😂
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Liam Murray 🌎@LiamMurray·
@MhairiHunter Put it this way - the only remotely plausible alternative is some sort of unified European movement and that's still a stretch. In a tripolar - US/China/Russian - world we're still on team USA (however stomach churning that is).
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Liam Murray 🌎@LiamMurray·
@MhairiHunter I know but for most of the last 150 years we've been aligned, globally in terms of our interests and security. Trump is a blip and it's at least plausible that normality will resume at some point - I'm just saying let's remain mindful of that.
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Mhairi Hunter 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇵🇸
Mhairi Hunter 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇵🇸@MhairiHunter·
This kind of argument is a waste of time. Most ppl in the UK do not see Trump as an ally but as a dangerous fool at best. Blair made a huge error dragging us into the Iraq war, it is an error most ppl do not want to see repeated, irrespective of their other political views.
Clash Report@clashreport

Tony Blair on Iran: Every single time you test an alliance you never test it when things are easy. You test it when it’s hard. They were asking to use our bases to refuel. It’s not like it was in Vietnam, not like the Iraq campaign where we had thousands of British troops. The American relationship matters. It matters particularly today. It’s not a question of whether it’s this president or that president. If they are your ally and they are an indispensable cornerstone for your security, you had better show up.

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Liam Murray 🌎@LiamMurray·
@MhairiHunter Well no because I’m not proposing outright hostility / severing ties today. Proximity and affection will wax and wean, that’s OK.
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Liam Murray 🌎@LiamMurray·
@MhairiHunter Of course but nor is it definitely not going to be the case. Imagine a Democrat Presidency in 5 years time while European democracies continue to flirt with right-wing populists. Point is you never completely close a door, that’s all.
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Liam Murray 🌎@LiamMurray·
@MhairiHunter Agree and I’m not saying Starmer should’ve joined in here (nor is Blair by my understanding). But it’s about a grown up, long-term approach to international politics, not allowing justified distaste for Trump to negate hundreds of years of common interest.
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Liam Murray 🌎@LiamMurray·
@MhairiHunter You’re genuinely arguing that countries should only ally with one another when there’s some sort of political alignment at the party in power level?!
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Liam Murray 🌎@LiamMurray·
@MhairiHunter That’s his point - it’s not legitimate to substitute the USA for Trump (or Obama or Bush or Lincoln), it never has been. Likewise in Scotland. Would you be OK with Scottish international allies who were only allies when the party you liked was in power?
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