David Oliver 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🎗 @BrightEyesDavid

@RustedVale @crypterry @DouglasKMurray @spectator 😂

Don't you love when your agent automatically reads the docs instead of guessing? ✨ #ElixirLang #Tidewave

Just because we don't yet know exactly how consciousness arises does not mean we should take seriously the idea that GPT or Claude are conscious. The hypothesis is not even coherent on its own terms. It would require multiple, conflicting, fleeting consciousnesses (plural) that are somehow activated each time a new conversation begins. The amazing abilities of LLMs demonstrate something else: the existence of entirely unforeseen statistical properties emerging out enormous reams of text. It shows that it's much easier than we thought to create a false impression of consciousnes. This is a very good takedown: "Should we seriously consider the possibility that Claude, or any large language model, might be conscious? And if it has feelings, is it capable of receiving moral instruction?No. Absolutely not. Generative AI is harmful enough when we understand it as a conventional technology, but if we confuse fluency at generating text with consciousness or moral agency, we’re at risk of assigning responsibility to entirely the wrong parties whenever anyone uses a chatbot." theatlantic.com/philosophy/202…

I’m pretty sure that when Henry Nowak’s father said he did not want his son’s death to create more division, he did not mean: “I want left-wing politicians and commentators to weaponise my grief to shut down debate.” Yet that is exactly what is happening. It’s disgusting to see his words misappropriated as a political battering ram, used to attack anyone who asks difficult questions about the way Henry was treated, and about the anti-white ideology explicitly codified in the public sector. Mr Nowak also said that the police treatment of his dying son was “inhumane and degrading”. We should make sure no other British child is treated the way Henry was.

Not doing themselves any favours. 🤬

Steve's Law 🇬🇧 @MaximusChud

a week ago

Found multiple views of the same event. They were trying to kill him. Watch how many times they strike him in the head.

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The footage of Henry Nowak’s arrest is one of the most horrifying things I have ever watched. To see a terrified, wounded boy being disbelieved, dragged, arrested and cuffed — it is unbearable. This is the savagery of state wokeness, says Brendan O’Neill buff.ly/5aw96HX

@hubertlepicki It is also being talked about. bbc.com/news/articles/… :/ I haven't brought myself to watch the video yet. Will do.

@sharrond62 @KirstieMAllsopp Kirstie has "Tyranny is the deliberate removal of nuance" in her bio. 😶

@heterodoxan We gave it an episode or two but were put off by the jokey framing iirc of a female hero killing a man with her thighs during sex. Just kinda gross and not funny. I haven't read about the finale.

@NoContextBrits Still looks quite happy though. Strange.

The whole Anthropic kerfuffle would have gone much smoother if they had been upfront about it. "Hey, we know this is unpopular, but we are moving programmatic access to API pricing. To easen the transition, we are giving API credits that match your subscription value. We also expect this change to increase capacity, so we are doubling the limits throughout Claude products for the next 2 months". The reason they made it sound like an upgrade was because the announcement was not for developers. It was for investors and enterprise customers. Impacting devrel is just collateral damage, which is on par for a company which believes coding is going away any time now. And this is extremely disapointing because they want to position themselves as a company that we should trust. But if they can't be honest about pricing changes, it is really hard to believe them on anything else.

@josevalim Hmm. If I understand correctly, the prog usage credit has to be claimed each month, and is equal to the cost of the monthly plan. (But will get used more quickly given the same level of usage to which we're accustomed? I guess I'll try other options with TW for the first time.)

Percentage of women who've signed our petition vs. men. Very few men shared the petition too. Strangulation is a gendered issue. Link to petition here: change.org/p/stop-the-bbc… It contains info about the risks of strangulation. Please share.

@StopForumSpam Ugh. Good luck. I've not yet had to deal with pool fixing.

@BradfemlyWalsh Also, the way he runs.

The conversation in Jewish families is, as Trevor Phillips said this morning, “who among our friends would save us?” We are in an undeniable crisis of antisemitism, and many are asking whether they need to leave Britain. Many have already done so. This is heartbreaking, but the time for weak words is over. We need to be unsparingly honest about what is happening, and what we can do about it. Antisemitism is an ancient disease, and there is no point pretending it does not come from several sources. We saw the surge in antisemitism in the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn. It has been partly purged, but there are some - like Naz Shah - on the Labour benches who have made antisemitic statements in the past. We saw in the Maccabi Tel Aviv scandal that Labour are up to their necks in corruption and communalism in places like the West Midlands. Starmer and Mahmood got away with this - but they knew the police and council had worked together to ban the Israeli fans. They didn’t intervene to stop it because they didn’t see the problem. But the scandal happened because the authorities took the side of Islamists over Jews. Now we see the surge of the Greens - a party absolutely riven with sectarianism and antisemitic candidates and activists. And on the online right, we’re starting to see some of the antisemitic language we’ve seen emerge in the recent years in America. It’s not at all of the same scale - but that could change and it would be wrong to ignore it. Above all though - and this is where too many find it difficult to tell the truth - we have an undoubted antisemitism problem among the Muslim population. Polls show among British Muslims: - Around half say “Jews have too much power over UK government policy.” - Four in ten say the same for the media and the financial industry. - Only one in four believe Hamas committed rape and murder on 7 October. - Only one in four believes Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish homeland. - Around half feel more sympathy with Hamas than Israel. When people ask why Britain - for so long previously a welcoming place for Jews - suddenly has such a problem, this is obviously the most significant change. The official Muslim population here has doubled from 1.6 million in 2001 to over four million today. Some studies suggest seventeen per cent of our population will be Muslim by 2050. Only around half of Muslims in Britain today were born here. And the countries from which Muslim immigrants are coming often have entrenched antisemitic cultures. Pakistan, Somalia, the Middle East. We are importing hatred that should never be welcome here. We are faced with a choice between keeping our Jewish citizens and receiving more and more people from these places. The choice we should make ought to be obvious. We should deport any foreigner who espouses this hatred. We should show zero tolerance to any British nationals who incites hatred and violence. We have to clamp down on the hate marches, and lock up those who are guilty of public order offences and incitement - including anybody who calls to “globalise the intifada” and chants “death to the IDF.” Above all, we have to stop importing hatred and extremism and antisemitism from countries where we know these things are rife. I waited a few days after the Golders Green attack before commenting because I wanted to see what the reaction would be. Unfortunately it was exactly as anticipated: weak words, no action, promises to build higher walls around our Jewish citizens. But I am not willing to sit here and watch as my friends discuss with their loved ones whether they should give up on Britain and emigrate. As a country, we have a choice to make - and my choice is to stand unequivocally with Britain’s Jews.

@KatrinaBiggs2 @sappholives83 @WomensSocIre Insane that we've got ourselves in a situation where men can just do whatever the hell they want. :( (3)

@KatrinaBiggs2 @sappholives83 @WomensSocIre The women inside didn't say anything, and I knew that was because they had to judge the trade-off between hassle/danger and pointing out my mistake/questioning. The male staff member outside didn't say anything on my way in, either. (2)