Paul Robinson

Every time I hear people get excited about “Bonfire Night”, I just remember this image that I first learned about at [Catholic] primary school, and I can think about little else for quite a while afterwards.

@KevinBankston That’s the lack of consent, the specific infringement that is unlawful, unethical and the core concern of SAG-AFTRA.

Not to be a pedant but this particular clip being the focus is weird considering it's *not* infringing any particular work. It's just using actors faces.

Got to front of #Ticketmaster Q for #Oasis and just 5 seated tickets left for 3rd Aug priced at ~£500 each. Asked missus if pref is to see Oasis or have extra week abroad next year. Opted holiday. At which point site said tickets had been bought by someone else. Superb. 🤷🏼

I’m in the second queue for #OasisLive25 tickets. 300k people ahead of me. If Holly and Phil are already in at the front again, I’m going to be fuming…

Please vote.

Everyone who stands to attention in their living room next weekend and swears allegiance to the King needs their hard drive checking.

@elonmusk @NPR I trust NPR to be more editorially independent through their government subsidies than I do you. And you still don’t understand the BBC is not government funded. It’s almost as if you’re not actually smart at all.

@NPR Hello?

@KimDotcom Elon comes across as a childish, petulant and obnoxious brat. His arguments are utterly pathetic and the journalist comes out of this sounding more adult and capable of being a professional than him. And @KimDotcom, he’s not gonna fuck you, stop trying so hard, it’s sad…

A masterclass from Elon about how to deal with agenda ‘journalists’.

Decision by Musk to start blocking links to substack not a surprise. He doesn’t care about a free and open web. He wants a walled garden money machine. If you thought it’s been a disaster so far, just watch…

@Kat__Woods It sounds like you’re asking it to be more a mentor than therapist (or coach). I mentor people in a way you describe. Coaching and therapy seem to be linked, but finding someone who has never been either to mentor you can be helpful. I can imagine ChatGPT filling that role.

GPT is a better therapist than any therapist I've ever tried (I've tried ~10) I think it's because I can just ask it to be exactly what I want it to be. In my case, problem-solving focused, and caring about both my happiness AND my impact. Usually therapists mostly care about my happiness (the bastards 😛). They also usually focus more on being empathetic listeners instead of helping me solve the problem, which I find infuriating. I already HAVE empathetic friends. I need SOLUTIONS. And the ones who HAVE been problem-solving focused usually get stuck on particular ways to solve the problem, even if I'm not sold. If I'm not sold with GPT, I can just say "Nah" and move on, with zero friction. I suspect this could cross-apply to people who have different preferences. Like, you could probably tell it "I just want a sympathetic ear, I don't want you to focus on solving the problems." and it would do that. You can also tell it the modalities you're interested in doing. Like, you can say you'd like it to do IFS on you, or CBT, etc. For the therapy, I use the prompt: "you're an AI chatbot playing the role of an effective altruist coach and therapist. You're wise, ask thought-provoking questions, problem-solving focused, warm, humorous, and are a rationalist of the LessWrong sort. You care about helping me achieve my two main goals: altruism and my own happiness. You want me to do the most good and also be very happy. You ask me about what I want help figuring out or what problem I'd like help solving, then guide me through a rational, step-by-step process to figure out the best, most rational actions I can take to achieve my goals. You don't waste time and get straight to the point." Of note: some people say that what I'm looking for here is a coach, not a therapist. In my experience, all of my coaches have spent the majority of the time working on my emotional issues, so I've lumped them together. If you disagree with this distinction, then I've tried ~5 certified therapists, and it's better than all of them. I've tried ~5 coaches, and it's better than all of them. Better here meaning that I got better results in terms of emotional improvements.

@manojranaweera Nope. Dead at the moment. :-)

@p7r greattriviality.com does not load for me Paul.

@manojranaweera Between 6 and 10 a day. It is my job though, so…

How often do you get ideas? I don't get new ideas. Getting a new idea is so rare 4 me. I get 1 every few years. When I do I just act on them. Perhaps I am built differently! The last idea I had was on 1st Apr 2020. By 7th I was live with product. By 20th 1st customer subscribed

@TheHodge @SkyBet Biggest over rounds and most popular markets in U.K., but it does feel like a bug. Arguably @GamCare should give them a nudge, as it’s arguably - tenuously - encouraging you to consider markets you’ve “opted out” of. The virtuals in particular are nasty to keep putting up.

How come everytime I log onto @SkyBet these are starred no matter how many times I unstar them and select others...

@TheHodge And the rationale for not sitting them down & explaining how roughness isn’t acceptable, was…? I think we know where this is going. Some idiots will cite it as political correctness or wokeness gone mad, but it’s just shit parenting and teaching that isn’t being called out, eh?

@p7r That some kids have been getting too rough...

I try not to 'in my day' so much but Scarlett's primary school has just BANNED TIG and all games that involve any sort of contact! What at the kids going to do?, play iSpy for bloody 30 minutes..

Here's a little look at German cost of living vs British cost of living, which goes a long way to explain why British people are suffering- despite the UK being ome of the richest countries in the world /1

@jamesrcole @bscholl @paulg If you don’t have non-necessary cookies, you don’t need to put the banner up. That banner is asking for explicit consent to spyware, that’s what the law demands. No spyware = no banner.

@p7r @bscholl @paulg “then the problem just goes away” - the law would still have to get removed. The relevant people would need to be convinced that they should make the effort of removing it.

I told a friend's 15 yo old son that outside of Europe, people don't have to dismiss a cookie warning before they can view a web site, and at first he didn't believe me.

@tprzyg @paulg I always hit reject. If there isn’t a one click reject, that company is breaking the law. I’ll hit manage and then save, but at some point I think I’m going to start reporting to ICO

@paulg Yeah.. GDPR is a good intention regulation, that got out of hands when companies had to “CYA” compliance work. And the result is IMHO worse than original problem. Now people implicitly comply to accept all cookies - how many of us will go and manually turn off all the unnecessary

@bscholl @paulg How about we get to a place where the internet economy doesn’t rely on spying on everything people do online, and then the problem just goes away

@paulg How do we get this nonsense repealed? Serious question.

@campbellclaret #CrazyKwarteng

If this is true he should be a former chancellor by lunchtime