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Greg Tuck

Greg Tuck

@gregwa.bsky.social

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Escaping from the other place. Recovering academic (film theory/philosophy) but returning to my first love (biological sciences) and wondering what it's all about. None the wiser, but better informed.

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 18h

Zone of proximal development as we called it back in my day

Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 22h

Or we all agree to only say 'You are Buddy Holly and I claim my five pounds' to them on repeat until they take them off or go away.

Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 22h

He shouldn't say he disagrees with her. He should say he is revolted to the pit of his stomach by what she has said as is tantamount to a call for ethnic cleansing.

Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 1d

This is an attempt to mainstream ethnic cleansing. It is beyond abhorrent and should be condemned in the strongest possible terms. Sadly as long as the Tories refuser to accept the mad failure of their Brexit they will continue to double down on it with even more stupidity and xenophobia.

Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 1d

I wish it were just comms, but it isn't. This was an attempt to mainstream ethnic cleansing and if that can't be called out loudly and immediately I don't know what can be.

Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 2d

Shouting is a bare minimum.

Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 2d

there is flimsy report that markets think there will be a US China trade deal so are going back to shares. Until tomorrow when Trump does something else or something else happens or the acid wears off and the magnificent phoenix they think they have been investing in turns out to be a small chicken

Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 3d

I'm sure he will recuse himself from making any comment that would have a direct bearing on any of his other employers (Anthropic, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft), interests.

Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 3d

CNN is reporting that the Budapest summit has now been postponed apparently.

Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 3d

My alstroemeria likewise refuses to give in

Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 3d

Demis Hassabis of Deep Mind replied to this claim from Open AI with the tweet 'this is embarrassing'. The grown ups in the AI world are beginning to actively distance themselves from the snake oil salesmen.

Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 3d

A bit like destroying the rose garden he is also just crudely marking his territory, inflating his ego and declaring his 'ownership' of the Presidency. Also, doing things with real estate is part of his comfort zone and so much easier than effecting policy.

Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 3d

And the internet is the hypodermic, a delivery system so much more efficient and powerful than the old media where you still only smoked your rage and venom.

Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 3d

I don't think the USA has lost its dominant economic status by any stretch of the imagination. If anything the world holding so many more dollars makes it more exposed. Forgot billions even a 2% drop in US GDP translates to foreign investors losing $15trn in wealth.

Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 3d

The idiocy of some senior University leadership is a wonder to behold sometimes. It's as if they manage to avoid any contact with the ideas or modes of thought the poor souls who work for them are grappling with. Meanwhile they seem bewitched by out of date management speak.

Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 3d

well as I said I don't think 'they' (not my team hence confused by 'you') are uniquely awful but the numbers do suggest they are uniquely powerful/significant. If the US economy takes a dive and the $ along with it everywhere takes the hit.

Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not clear who you mean by 'you'

Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 4d

If you jump out of a twenty storey building the first 19 floors don't hurt at all.

Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 4d

Their capacity for awfulness isn't exceptional but their status as (current) world military and economic hegemony is.

Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 4d

Many thanks for that metaphor! You have won the internet for today.

Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 4d

LLMs will undoubtedly get smarter at the top end, but they will never stop making really dumb errors at the bottom and never lead to AGI. Unlike humans they will never learn how not to make this type of error. AI needs to change tack, but the bubble probably needs to burst to let this happen.

Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 4d

However, worrying that 30% still deluded enough to think it has been wonderful.

Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 5d

Losing the right to cosplay a few medieval titles for engaging in child sexual slavery is not anything like an appropriate punishment, but hopefully his own hubris and sense of entitlement will reap something closer to justice.

Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 5d

The true horror is Trump has a large and loyal audience for this stuff. So even on that blessed day they rid themselves of him, it will only be the start of trying to confront, neutralise, or at best, contain the MAGA venom coursing through their politics. What the US will be during this, God knows

Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 6d

When a large number of them seem engaged in a concerted effort to come across as really nasty pieces of work (rather than people with a concern about levels of public spending and the efficacy of taxation to provide for them), it becomes harder to be reasonable.