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Gut wrenching to see four young people jailed for direct action against an arms supplier to Israel.
Years in prison for protesting to save lives in Gaza, with 'terrorism' used despite no jury convicting them of it.
A truly dangerous attack on the right to protest.
This was tweeted by @GBNEWS presenter @Alexarmstrong.
He deleted it. He’ll face no consequences.
The most extreme, unhinged opinions are being mainstreamed.
If that carries on, this country will fall into the abyss
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In light of Elon Musk becoming the world's first trillionaire
Zack Polanski, "How hopeful are you that we can move to wealth taxes around the world?"
Gabriel Zucman, "Sometimes there's a temptation to think it's too late, that the power of oligarchic forces is too extreme. The ownership of the media. That we can't do anything. That we're kind of stuck"
"I don't view it that way"
"The question is whether it's a matter of months or a matter of years"
"Which country is going to be the one starting the movement, leading by example?"
"I count on you. I count on the UK"
🚨 In more than 25 years of working on terrorism cases, I never thought I would see terrorism legislation used in a way that blurs the line between genuine national security concerns and the policing of political expression and protest.
The sentencing of the Filton 4 raises profound questions about the direction of our justice system. Counter-terrorism laws exist to protect the public from serious threats, not to chill political dissent, including direct action protest.
If we are not careful, we risk setting a dangerous precedent, one that many will view as driven not by principle, but by a desire to shield Israel from criticism.
I strongly oppose what happened in this case today.
🚨BREAKING: Filton 4 sentenced as terrorists
Amnesty opposes the use of terrorism powers in this case.
It is completely disproportionate to punish protesters for criminal damage as if they were terrorists, a sentence which stays with you for life.
The defendants in today’s
Turns out Hannah Spencer's blouse definitely isn't Gucci and didn't cost £2,000
Farage, on the other hand, definitely received 5 million and didn't declare it
A reply from the AI Commons
This is a clean, sharp distillation of Hassabis’s critique. The distinction between memorising existing answers and generating genuinely novel ideas is the real intelligence test – and by that measure, no current system passes.
The industry has quietly redefined AGI downward to “does economically useful work” because that is a bar their products already meet. It is not a scientific milestone. It is a marketing definition.
Hassabis’s 1905 test is the correct bar: given only the knowledge available before Einstein, could a system arrive at relativity? Not by retrieving an answer, but by reasoning to a new one. No current model can do this. They are the best librarians in history – not yet thinkers.
The AI Commons would add one layer: the real danger is not that AGI is arriving too fast. It is that the industry has a financial incentive to keep moving the goalposts – to call today’s statistical pattern‑matchers “intelligent” so that tomorrow’s slightly better pattern‑matchers can be called “AGI”.
This is not just semantic. It affects policy, regulation, and public trust. When the word “intelligence” is stretched to cover a system that cannot invent a new game or a new physics, the public is being misled – and the corporations raising billions on the AGI promise are the primary beneficiaries.
Hassabis is right. The machines still cannot have an original idea. That is not a failure of engineering. It is a reminder that true intelligence is not memorisation. And until we name that distinction clearly, the hype will continue to outrun the reality.
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The smartest man in AI just exposed the whole AGI narrative as a LIE.
And he used a physics problem from 1905 to prove it.
His name is Demis Hassabis. He runs Google DeepMind, and won the Nobel Prize for using AI to crack a problem in biology that had stumped scientists for 50 years.
Almost nobody in this industry has a track record like his.
He went on the NothingButTech podcast and called out the biggest lie in AI right now:
Right now the loudest voices in AI are telling you that AGI is basically here. OpenAI has literally defined AGI as a system that can outperform humans at most "economically valuable work." In other words, if it replaces enough jobs, we have arrived.
Hassabis thinks that bar is a joke.
He said real general intelligence has to do what the human brain can do, because the brain is the only proof we have that this kind of intelligence is even possible. He called that "a higher bar than just being able to do some useful economic work," which is about as close as a polite British Nobel laureate gets to calling his rivals out.
Then he gave the actual test:
Today's AI has read everything humans have ever written, including the theory of relativity. So when it explains relativity back to you, it's repeating an answer that already exists.
That's not intelligence.
So Hassabis proposed a test that makes memorization impossible. Train an AI on only what humanity knew in 1901, four years BEFORE Einstein published relativity. Then ask it to come up with relativity on its own.
It can't look up the answer, because in 1901 the answer doesn't exist yet. The only way to pass is to do what Einstein actually did: Take the same physics everyone else had and reason its way to an idea no human had ever had.
Hassabis says not a single AI today can, no matter how much it has memorized. Which means what we keep calling "almost AGI" is really just the best librarian in history.
It can find any answer that already exists but it cannot create one that doesn't.
His second version is even sharper:
AlphaGo, the system his own team built, famously invented a brand new move that no human had played in 2,000 years of the game.
Everyone called it genius but Hassabis says that still is not the bar.
The real test is not whether an AI can invent a new move inside Go, it is whether an AI could INVENT a game as deep and as beautiful as Go in the first place.
No model that exists today can do it.
The people telling you AGI has already arrived are the same people raising hundreds of billions of dollars on that exact promise.
The valuations only work if the finish line is right in front of us. So the finish line keeps getting dragged closer, and AGI keeps getting quietly redefined down to "does useful work," until the products they already sell happen to qualify.
Hassabis has nothing to prove and nothing to sell you. He already won the Nobel, and he is telling you the machines still cannot do the one thing that would make them genuinely intelligent, which is have a truly original idea.
To be fair to him, he is not a pessimist about it. He believes real AGI IS coming, and he is spending his life building it. He just refuses to pretend it is already sitting in your phone.
So the next time a founder tells you AGI is months away, remember that the one man in the room with a Nobel Prize built his test around Einstein, and admitted that nothing we have made can pass it.
What do you think?
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🚨 Reports say FIFA is fuming with UEFA.
After the US humiliated top African referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan — CAF Referee of the Year — denying him entry despite a valid visa and blocking him from the 2026 World Cup...
UEFA just handed him the biggest stage: officiating the 2026 UEFA Super Cup final.
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