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• Post #4123229

  I'm going to make a prediction. LLMs will never be intelligent. They can't because they obviously lack some of the fundamental requirements. Don't ask me what these are(I could speculate), but the diagnosis is clear. All service tasks require intelligence. There's a lot of boilerplate, but underneath is intelligence, and the intelligence lies in the specific arrangement of the boilerplate. From this it follows there will never be large or even significant productivity gains f...

• Post #2480015

  What's the place of AI in teaching? Nowhere. But why? Are we sure? Surely dictionaries, encyclopedias, search engines have a place, so why not? We are certain, because the process of learning involves doing, fully, without help, as proof of mastery to oneself, and to others. And then doing it again better, faster, and again. A reference used in this process needs to be reliable as its first quality, didactic second.

• Post #1601758

  Stuff I hadn't realised: Russia and North Korea are land neighbours. Russia is a large country...

• Post #1601757

  Will AI change the Labour/Capital equilibrium? i.e., can you buy AI to lower your labour input? No. Because bottleneck tasks are almost never lines of code, text, or draft images. If AI doesn't improve the bottlenecks in production, it doesn't improve productivity. Rather, it demands more labour to unclog the pipeline. (or rather would if it worked...)

• Post #1601756

  UK in talks with Anthropic over Mythos access for banks - https://www.ft.com/content/fe563a8e-e269-4a6b-a577-8ed16a805a7b We really are ruled by cretins.

• Post #1590128

  In case it's not obvious to everyone, the mythos scam is that people will pay through the nose for a bad fuzzer. Because they're idiots who believe liars n times in a row.

• Post #772365

  There are regular dramas here which boil down to people not wanting social media but private fora. Which exist. Which they could use. But somehow don't, and moan about being on a social media site. My writings here (and yours) are public for all to read. And *should* be searchable, and *will* be LLMed. I don't like LLMs, but if random strangers can read your stuff, they'll do whatever with it. (really, LLMs are here an issue because of redistribution and deforming what...

• Post #738627

  Keir Starmer to bring forward EU rules legislation in King’s Speech - https://www.ft.com/content/b0316ac9-e013-41f8-985d-5394284ff397 @financialtimes Oh? Good? and it seems they finally clocked Brexit fights are bad for brexiters?

• Post #435057

  https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/feb/26/drop-in-overseas-workers-uk-hospitals-and-care-homes Soooo, following the pretty large #Green win we've just seen, is the government going to do the decent thing, which is to march the whole of the Home Office into the sea, and do what's the standard everywhere else: give immigration to the Economy, which can at least be counted on to not try to kill the country to appease the racists? Seriously #Labour, you only needed to be moderately n...

• Post #123344

  We're on a collision course towards war against the US. This is unpleasant. It's possibly more unpleasant that we may not be out of cowardice.

• Post #123321

  https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/10/two-thirds-of-uk-voters-wrongly-think-immigration-is-rising-poll-finds This is the correct way of reporting a poll where the public believes insane shit.