This seems about right to me?

“Consciousness Explained Away” doesn't need a sentence

how most people are still meh about irreversible global overheating is beyond me

For those for whom the clock has just gone back, and who like doing 5 minute surveys run by LJMU psychology department …

On the bright side, it's not as bad as being invaded by Romans or Vikings.

You'll know for sure we have AGI when mass unemployment due to AI becomes a thing -- when for most tasks there's no reason to hire a human over using an API or a robot. But of course this is a lagging indicator. It would take at least 2-3 years to go from having AGI available to

This is what twitter is for

This is just how human beings talk

It is widely said that “no-one wins in a trade war” but I guess a kleptocrat can?

I guess when bitcoin finally collapses, it's unlikely to be as bad as the collapse of the Albanian pyramid schemes because the people in the bottom layer of the BTC pyramid will be spread globally and won't easily be able to find the people who got their money.

As an undergraduate I was more inspired by their lectures & seminars than their books :-) Michael Dummett, JR Lucas, GP Baker, and a youthful Dan Isaacson were all great people to listen to and/or argue with.

Can anyone help me understand this weird message I received from ChatGPT? Has anyone else received such a leaked message? errorstatistics.com/2025/04/01/lea…

Destruction of human-habitable world not even headline news anymore theguardian.com/world/2025/may…

I dunno, I'm not so sure it does

Was this the first death by AI? nytimes.com/2025/06/13/tec…

At long last, 14 years after my first LINQPad·Joe Albahari license…