It’s only a very short letter, but it’s good. They argue that AGI claims are based on shifting the definition of AGI to something easier to meet, that advocates rely on hitting artificial (gameable) benchmarks rather than dealing with novelty, and that providing answers to questions doesn’t mean they’re doing cognition as we’d normally understand it, especially as LLMs don’t express doubt (they don’t say this, but I’ll add: this is because they can’t do metacognition: they can’t think about their own thought processes, as we can)

The best place to hide drugs would be up another dog’s arse. Nobody is going to be suspicious when the sniffer dog shows an interest

Lovely pictures

There’s a whole section on social media. That’s where they discuss Mastodon and W, among others

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST CHATBOTS DON’T KNOW ANYTHING. STOP ASKING THEM QUESTIONS AND THINKING THEIR ANSWERS ARE ANYTHING MORE THAN WORD ASSOCIATION BASED ON THINGS PEOPLE HAVE WRITTEN IN THE PAST for fuck’s sake

Ah, but the public also want cheap houses and yet these don’t appear. So we have to ask why the public only get certain cheap things and not others

In addition, handing the task over to a chatbot means you learn nothing about what makes a good training plan, and how to judge whether the one you get is doing what it needs to, from a physiological point of view.

“Prove you’re a bot by failing to click all the motorcycles in this image”

I’ve been experimenting with Here Wego. It’s not quite Google Maps, but it’s not bad and has a lot of nice features like live public transport info. Perhaps the thing I like least is that its information about businesses seems to come from TripAdvisor, which is a shame because I find that site a bit unreliable

The entitlement that comes with motoring. It’s not the council’s job to store people’s property for free

Fair comment. On my fantasy mayoral system there’d be no storing cars on public land, so the space issue might be moot

A small nuance is that car sharing is usually better than taxis. A taxi is driving around empty around half the time and has an average occupancy below 1.0. With car share, all the mileage involves moving people to places

Noooooo! My world is a lie

Orangina is the first that comes to mind. Almost definitively French

In this case it’s a SIM you don’t have to pay for and it has credit on it

Indeed. And let’s not forget that these budgets are all effectively handouts to the car industry (which created all the problems in the first place)

If anyone needs this, you should be able to walk into any O2 shop and just ask for a SIM, no questions asked

Yes, “diverted from landfill” would have been more accurate

And Wales (for better and for worse)

That’s a beautiful image - and very impressive with a 6" Newt. Nice work