Oliver

He went on Google Earth and found a mysterious site in a canyon! He flew 40 hours and ‘hiked’ deep into the canyons to find Petra Jordan’s most popular tourism site. (I’m not joking, this is what the video says)

I’ll admit - i was sceptical about the idea of AI psychosis. Not the specific cases, which were all too believable, but about the scale. How much was this happening? And anyway wouldn’t better models make it go away? Then I read a paper by Anthropic and the University of Toronto which has strangely received very little attention

Once again no politician has ever lied as much as him and none has ever been so honest either.

THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT The British Interplanetary Society, in 1949, issued a design of a space suit which included a cape and a shooting stick.

This is a little known piece of knowledge for the Reels generation, but scenes used to have many other scenes attached to them, and you were required to watch all of them - we called the combination ‘movies,’ and sometimes some scenes were good but more were bad.

@bharatcraftings @pizzaboy Thanks. I wasn't actually thinking about anyone's feelings being hurt tbh. I just think seasons are great and, well, normal. I would hate a climate that was the same year round.

@fromOliver @pizzaboy Lol, I agree. I will refrain myself to not use such words as humour as it might come off as deviating and harm someone's feeling which I dont intend to. Thanks for pointing it out, I never viewed it this way. Appreciate it !

London > SF

removing cars from Bank has turned it from a generic horrible junction to a landmark that people actually like. so many other spots in London could do with the same treatment

We need a tax on self-driving cars. Beneath eight states of the American Great Plains lies the Ogallala Aquifer, one of the largest bodies of groundwater on Earth. For centuries, extraction was constrained by the modest capacities of wind and hand power. At that rate, this 'fossil water' resource was effectively limitless. Farmers could draw as much as they wanted without ever running it down. worksinprogress.co/issue/escaping… But in 1949 Colorado Farmer Frank Zybach invented centre-pivot irrigation. Combined with electricity and the centrifugal pump, farmers could now draw thousands of gallons per well per minute, enough to irrigate 40 acres at a time. Since then, the aquifer has gone down 10%, losing a Lake Erie's worth of water. It is down 50% in the dry parts, where it recharges just 0.02 inches per year. Without intervention, modern pumps will bring about the total end of irrigated farming in the arid parts of the Great Plains in 20-30 years. This is what I call the Ogallala Trap. Technological change can create a new tragedy of the commons. The telegraph enabled the destruction of the passenger pigeon; sonar, radar, and diesel enabled the industrial trawling that devastated the North Sea cod in a decade; chlorofluorocarbons came close to destroying the ozone layer. Self-driving cars are about to do the same thing to roads. When you can sleep, work, or drink with friends in a moving vehicle, you will take many more journeys by car. Roads, which are free at the point of use almost everywhere, will grind to a halt. People who have to go to the office or the hospital will be stuck sharing the road with people having beers, working remotely, and taking naps. There is a fix, but it depends on acting now, before autonomous vehicles go mainstream. Voters balk at being charged more for something they already depend on. The tax needs to come in as soon as possible. Waymos are already in dozens of cities and do millions of journeys per month. We have very little time left. If we want to save our roads from omnigridlock, we must introduce road pricing for autonomous vehicles.

@s8mb Your (v good) theory of everything feels quite compatible with a more equitable growth model, so perhaps there's more to agree on destination than how we get there.

@s8mb Ha. You were in the land of thinking too much, so it didn't show! Reasonable critcism of that article yes (and as a comms person, that slogan is a little clunky) But I thought it interesting that you were almost surprised to agree with Burnham...

This slogan sums up twenty years of British stagnation.

Australians can now live & work freely in the EU for 4 years and vice versa That means they now have 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 EU rights than British people. Free movement offered millions of us fantastic opportunities but Brexiteers slammed that door shut, most shamefully on their own children

"The monk joined the monastery and spent the next ten years working his way up the ranks, until finally he was put in charge of the relics."

@raylehmann @agraybee Fair point. Always thought they should get the Olympics medals

@fromOliver @agraybee The horses are the athletes in horse racing. The jockeys are the equipment.

I don't think JK Rowling really understands sports as a concept because what do you mean individual players can bring their own vastly superior equipment that gives them an advantage.

UK: spends billions of £ putting portions of HS2 underground because NIMBYs complained about views of the train. USA: NIMBYs complaining about views stopped Amtrak improvements in Connecticut meanwhile in China:

At a parenting talk where the speaker is waxing lyrical about the marshmallow test and taking a frankly ironic amount of willpower not to point out it’s been debunked as a predictor of life outcomes.

Hmm. @GoodwinMJ says he only "used AI to obtain datasets". The book contains many quotes from canonical thinkers for which no source can be found. If these are not the AI hallucinations they appear to be, did he fabricate them without using ChatGPT? #Echobox=1774512216" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…