I am on strike today along with thousands and thousands of other university workers. Weβll be portrayed in the media as SchrΓΆdingerβs Academics: simultaneously workshy and lazy but also causing huge upheaval to students by withdrawing our labour. #ucuRISING @KCL_UCU
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Every element of this graph makes me want to spit blood. For one, as if 'a record of original research' and 'several years of experience' were only requirements for Senior Lecturers and above? #ucuRISING
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A passing Swiss woman told me he was too old for me... @ ZΓΌrich, Switzerland
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"The future's bright, the future's orange" (a joke for my UK peeps)
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Me and my twitter friends looking for a new place to hang out
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babe are you okay? youβve barely touched your five social media platforms you panic joined this week
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Goblin mode suggests the existence of beholder mode, mimic mode, and unfortunately abyssal chicken mode
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"Free for a quick call? Easier to explain on the phone."
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One of the most amazing things about this Twitter moment is so many people flinging off their clothes to reassure the emperor
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Brilliant discussion on AI in the context of today and tomorrow. Well worth a listen. Thanks
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It's Wednesday so it must be Reykjavik @ Keflavik International Airport
no but you don't understand, I tricked some really cool people into being mutuals on here idk how to do it again elsewhere
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Absolutely when you pick apart any thread of these movements, you always unravel some pretty bad malpractice. But this is..........really so much worse than I thought.
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NEW ARTICLE of mine on some of William MacAskill's outrageous claims about climate change in "What We Owe the Future." It's in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Let's take a quick look at what I write. A short 
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Starting the journey home!! @ Denver, Colorado
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So a new thing happened. A paper we submitted got rejected by a journal after automated plagiarism detection. It turned out two students in India had plagiarised our preprint and then published online reports. So we've been accused of copying them. Fun.
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NEW: , an antifascist club which has acted as a volunteer armed deterrent for Proud Boys and militia members who have menaced LGBTQ+ events across north Texas, has been suspended. This comes after several anti-LGBTQ+ accounts and media figures were reinstated.
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Alexa's success always seemed a little bit improbable to me. Like everyone went along with this idea that it's an all powerful "voice assistant" when as best I can tell the only meaningful function it had was to play songs by request
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Amazon Alexa is a βcolossal failure,οΏ½? on pace to lose $10 billion this year arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/1 by @RonAmadeo
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Every house we build today is robbing the 10^42 digital entities that could have lived in the nails if they were processors.
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itβs not that heβs against banning speech that harms people, itβs just that he doesnβt believe anybody but himself is a person
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βMany are laughing now at Musk, suggesting that heβs βmismanagingοΏ½? Twitter and that it will end up being taught in business schools as a case study in failure.
βIn fact, it is likely to end up being taught in history classes as an example of totalitarian information warfareβ
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3/And I expanded on these themes further in this piece for Byline Times. Some people still donβt get it, but itβs mostly because they havenβt studied the history, and donβt care to. And so some people are just wrong and under-informed. Thatβs okay.
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The story behind Galactica:
"Meta Trained an AI on 48M Science Papers. It Was Shut Down After 2 Days"
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full quote is "Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.οΏ½?
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"Do not listen to those who say the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the tumult of the crowd is always close to madness."
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See the thing about trade, something we need as a country, is you can't do it without, for example, selling things to other countries that comply with their laws and regulations
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The PM rules out post-Brexit arrangements that rely on aligning with EU laws
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How it started How itβs going
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In general people really have lost sight of the fact that it's only really a protest if people will do at least something to try and stop you staging it.
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I can't wait for the utopian Mars colony where a serial killer gets out of detention because he won a Twitter poll.
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Rise again
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Look, when I said I would stand in solidarity with the persecuted and oppressed, I didn't realise there might be negative consequences to that. Soz, lads!
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Just doing some archiving as part of the potential "abandon ship" preparations, and was reminded that a little while ago I made up this rather silly EA joke that I'm quite pleased with.
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How many Effective Altruists does it take to change a light bulb?
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It's not really about "changing" the light bulb, it's more about maximising the impact you can achieve within the existing lighting paradigm.
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Thiel and Musk believe that the world works best if people like them are in charge, get to do whatever they want to do, unhampered by regulations or demands for equality β because they are convinced that their personal interest is identical with the interest of humanity itself.
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you ordered blood by the gallon and now you decide you donβt like the taste
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Meanwhile, I just recycled the paper from around a small tin of sweetcorn. This entire #FIFAWorldCup is astonishingly unethical.
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The 8 stadiums at the Qatar World Cup will have gigantic air conditioners that will blast cold air across the stadium and onto the pitch to combat the desert temperatures.
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The Christmas lights are being turned on today in Cambridge, so itβs time to share my favourite festive display which was at the local vacuum cleaner shop a few years ago π
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This is because what metaverse proponents don't understand is that most of us use social media ambiently rather than immersively
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incredible indictment that everyone is desperately looking for somewhere to meet and talk to people, and no one has even mentioned Zuckerberg's $70bn metaverse
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