David Colquhoun

Of course it isn't government policy to be deceived by sales hype. That's a bit ridiculous. I hope that they will get good enough advice to avoid disasters.

yet more Musk worship from www.silveraiproject.com/ainews_Feb20...
Speculative sales talk and hype is not education, IMO

For example the course has a lot of made-up baloney about longevity www.silveraiproject.com/presentation...

Being old, I joined U3A (my dad was a member when it was called University of the 3rd Age). I came across a course that's designed to teach you about #AI. But it's more like a Musk promotion exercise. I find that worrying. Uncritical education is worse than useless www.silveraiproject.com

It is true that there is a lot of popular sentiment about this, but it is insane and made up.

'Bitterly ironic': Trump is wrecking his AI agenda with Anthropic spat, lobbyists and ex-officials say Tech lobbyists, investors and a former Trump adviser are all warning the White House that its deregulatory, export-driven AI agenda is on shaky ground after it hammered a top U.S. company.

“Since Trump’s reelection, the EU has escalated efforts to grant preference to domestic companies and wean itself off of American tech. [CDT’s] Samir Jain [] said that sentiment is likely to spread as Trump demonstrates a desire to control companies like Anthropic.”

When you've realised you've made a bad call but are also physically incapable of accepting you can be wrong.

Don't worry. Your president says it's all a hoax.

Then he laid out the business plan. Venezuela and Iran sit on 31% of the world's known oil reserves, Graham said, and once the U.S. installs friendly governments in both countries, America will "have a partnership" with all of it. That's the war. Not "imminent threats." Not nuclear weapons. Oil.😠

Lindsey Graham just went on Fox News and literally said the war in Iran is about oil, and America is going to "make a ton of money" from it.
When asked how he'd justify spending a billion dollars a day on this war while oil prices are up 27% in a single week, he called it the"best money ever spent."

thehill.com Pentagon burned through $5.6B in munitions in first 2 days of Iran war 

Pentagon burned through $5.6B in munitions in first 2 days of Iran war  #TheHill

That whole bribe system is really paying off for the military industrial complex

Here he is saying there are "incredible stories" about leucovorin for autism.

First the jokes about illegally killing people on boats allegedly carrying drugs, now a comedy routine about torpedoing an unarmed ship in an undeclared war

When even GBNews are calling it a “Donald Trump problem”, you know Nigel Farage and Reform UK are in trouble.

a man is standing on a track watching a group of runners start a race . ALT: a man is standing on a track watching a group of runners start a race .

ReformUK Olympics

Great work by NYT showing Trump's war is the most unpopular ever. Supports my argument (see below) that in some ways the public rejection of Trump across the board is a very heartening development:

Stolen from X

Trump could inadvertently be boosting prospects of European tech sector
• There are now more tech folks moving from the US to Europe than the other way around
• US Visa restrictions and hostility towards elite universities could compound trend
www.economist.com/business/202...

And #BBCNewsnight didn't play it either. Why protect the UK public from the full horror of Trump's speeches?

The #BBCNewsatTen played two clips from this speech, but not this one. Protecting Trump?

Please tell me this is not real? Please tell me it’s an AI fake? It’s too horrendous to comprehend. While he jokes, the region is in chaos, economies upended, lives lost, and enhanced threat of terrorism worldwide, esp against Americans.

Interesting. I still post on Mastodon from time to time, and this post got far more attention there than it has here (12 boosts, 8 faves). Disappointing.

I wonder if Farage and Badenoch are having a little think about whether they should have been so gun-ho about supporting this war. You sure that's going to be a popular long-term position pal?

How democratic is the UK? The UK has a crisis of democracy

Democracy in the UK

Unelected Head of state
Unelected second chamber of parliament
MPs pressurized to toe the party line
Political parties, too many legislators available for hire to the super-rich
Unlike the EU no workplace democracy

FPTP skews election outcomes

Deep social/economic problems.

Christian Nationalism is NOT Christianity, but it is a national security threat.

📌 The Military Religious Freedom Foundation says it has received over 200 complaints that troops are being told war with Iran is meant to accelerate “Armageddon.”

the president has no idea what he has set in motion. none.

www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

When people say this moment feels alarming, they’re right.

But it’s important to recognize something else:

This didn’t begin yesterday.

It began the moment a presidency decided that truth was whatever the president said it was.👇

Can we really claim to ‘know’ what only a machine can prove? The rise of AI proofs and the limits of human understanding

Terence Tao, the famous mathematician, cited by @kityates.bsky.social, at kityates.substack.com/p/can-we-rea...

"One thing we’ve learned from using AIs is that if you give them a goal, they will cheat like crazy to achieve the goal,”

ie they'll produce something that *looks like* a response
#AI