and all of the arguments we made 5 yrs ago in this paper about why the idea of robot rights relies on faulty assumptions about the nature of human cognition and intelligence still hold

Robot Rights?: Let's Talk about Human Welfare Instead dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Could be true. They might be going to give him his knighthood in the NY honours list in return for him quitting on 2 Jan thereby avoiding the messiness of a spill!

She wants to be on the white side of history.

Hard to keep up a regular gym routine when you've got to flit off overseas every five minutes to avoid dealing with the latest dead rat served by one of your ministers and/or coalition partners!

... yet

Yep, even good days at a personal level have dark clouds of existential dread hovering on the horizon for me, like how did we go from trying to make the world a better place for everyone to burning it all down politically, socially and climatically? 😕

A couple of them have put their hands in their pockets in solidarity with the bald guy

“Doing my best to address this” I assume means he’s screaming at some minions who actually know how the X algorithm works to make X even more fascist-promoting and Elon-adoring

Hard to believe it is 2025, and not 1925, listening a government minister spout this anti-science nonsense on smoking, when the tobacco industry themselves have known the truth (and tried to cover it up) for at least 70 years now.

The difference is that the White House guest is an actual sponsor of state terrorism, trans-national murder and the elimination of civil rights.