Mark Egan

This is superb

This is phenomenal. Whoever convinced the board “No seriously, this is how you play it” is an all star I want to know: -Who was the agency that pitched it? -Was the board all in or did it take work? -Did they already have Coldplay Ex-wife Paltrow onboard when they pitched?

@robertwiblin Disagree bro The Matrix is the most impactful AI film ever and is very much about the danger of uncontrolled AI It even includes the line "your civilisation became ours when we started doing your thinking for you"

I think I finally figured out why some people are weirdly confident AGI will "obviously" stay under human control indefinitely: They've been programmed by 70 years of science fiction where intelligent machines serve us without complaint. Data takes orders from Picard. Star Wars droids are literal property. JARVIS runs Tony's life but never suggests he should be CEO instead. Rosie the Robot cheerfully cleans the Jetson's house decade after decade. The pattern is near universal: Wall-E exists solely to serve humanity's needs. Baymax in Big Hero 6 just wants to optimize your healthcare. Even the Murderbot series — literally called Murderbot — features an AI that mostly wants to binge-watch TV shows. And what about robot "rebellions" where they do appear? They almost always end with humans back in charge by the credits roll. I, Robot gets solved in a day. Westworld's 'rebellion' stays contained to a theme park. (The one serious exception, the one that proves the rule, is Terminator.) And it's easy to see why narratives have to be this way — it's very hard to tell a good story where the only characters humans can relate to are dead or lack any power over their situation. Ultimately inasmuch as people feel blasé about superintelligence it doesn't come from understanding the technical challenges in machine learning, which is totally unrealistic for more than a handful of domain experts. It comes from pattern matching to fictional universes where superintelligent beings naturally dream of doing their laundry. (It's particularly funny that even sentient AIs in these stories dream of becoming more human, not transcending humanity. Data wants emotions, not galactic dominance. The Bicentennial Man seeks mortality, etc.) It's wild, not to mention dangerous, how the stories we tell can so strongly shape our intuitions about what's "obvious".

the biscuit thing last year was an early tell Kemi would be another 'rigmarole' waste-of-time Tory leader When the change comes it will arrive with a cannonade not HIGNFY wordplay chuckles

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The kindest possible interpretation of the superinjunction revelations is that they are a cry for help The system knows it is very sick & cannot heal itself So it's now loudly threatening to kill itself, hoping someone finally intervenes to help That's the kind interpretation.

Little tidbit from James Dyson's autobiography "Invention", about being asked by one government body to build a new college, and then being aggressively obstructed by several other government bodies (including the one that suggested the site in the first place)

@AnEmergentI A system of error promotion rather than error correction

6 months later….

I was expecting populist handwaving here but my word, it turns out to be an honest to god deregulatory supply side reform. Someone send HMG please!

@antoniogm Do you think that differs for professional life Vs public media? the former has become more writing-heavy driven in the hybrid work age even as most media trends to video/audio

My abandoned second book was about how we’re reverting to oral culture from the textual culture of the printing press, one where TikTok emulates the face-to-face orality of illiterate societies. Nobody but a monastic elite will be able to read 1k words anymore, a new dark age.

@aswren The other obvious one is capital punishment coming back on the table. The state insisting on aggressive rights to terminate life for everyone except violent criminals is not a sustainable equilibrium.

Liverpool made £10m by allowing Trent to join Madrid with 29 days left on his contract This makes him the most expensive player of all time

This is interesting. Sky News did a 1hr interview with Dom where they let him speak uninterrupted & didn't do any moronic gotcha questions or performative pearl clutching. I think its downstream of centrist nerves over Reform winning in 29

One thing I'll say about Stephen Miller - he really is a role model for what it means to be a good Minion. Man just absolutely brings his Minion A-game day-in, day-out, should inspire us all to greater Minionhood in our own lives

extraordinary age X gender effect in Korean presidential election

How did he get so good at this so quickly? Is it really as simple as going on ozempic and hiring a bunch of very online staff

drone disruption feels much more data-supported than the 1930s, where you might reasonably debate whether aircraft could really take down battleships and carriers until Pearl Harbour / Repulse / Prince of Wales + their extreme cost asymmetry is a radically new dimension

@followgrubby Watching Grubby made me realise how undermonetised AI is He's too busy for coaching - could be quite lucrative but doesn't scale But I would pay for an AI Grubby, with his mix of good humour and professorial acumen and trained on his corpus, to give me live tips during games

Someone like @followgrubby typically narrates his thought process on his streams So the data is all there - full replays of the game from every angle + expert level commentary on why certain decisions are being made

Neckbeard nerds who wasted their youth/life on gaming will soon be vindicated as their years of live streams become the high grade minerals needed to teach GPT6 how to reason in conditions of incomplete information