Jack Stilgoe
@jackstilgoe.bsky.social
Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk)
David Hare did a very nice job of this on stage a few years back en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straigh...
Straight Line Crazy - Wikipedia
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December 1, 2025 at 10:41 PM
David Hare did a very nice job of this on stage a few years back en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straigh...
We need a name for this sort of graph. An optimism stickleback?
November 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM
We need a name for this sort of graph. An optimism stickleback?
Reposted by Jack Stilgoe
May we never stop trying to write cricket bats.
![HENRY: Shut up and listen. This thing here, which looks like a wooden club, is actually several pieces of particular wood cunningly put together in a certain way so that the whole thing is sprung, like a dance floor. It’s for hitting cricket balls with. If you get it right, the cricket ball will travel two hundred yards in four seconds, and all you’ve done is give it a knock like knocking the top off a bottle of stout, and it makes a noise like a trout taking a fly… (He clucks his tongue to make the noise.) What we’re trying to do is to write cricket bats, so that when we throw up an idea and give it a little knock, it might … travel … (He clucks his tongue again and picks up the script.) Now, what we’ve got here is a lump of wood of roughly the same shape trying to be a cricket bat, and if you hit a ball with it, the ball will travel about ten feet and you will drop the bat and dance about shouting ‘Ouch!’ with your hands stuck into your armpits. (Indicating the cricket bat.) This isn’t better because someone says it’s better, or because there’s a conspiracy by the MCC to keep cudgels out of Lords. It’s better because it’s better. You don’t believe me, so I suggest you go out to bat with this and see how you get on. [quoting from the play] ‘You’re a strange boy, Billy, how old are you?”Twenty, but I’ve lived more than you’ll ever live.’ Ooh, ouch! (He drops the script and hops about with his hands in his armpits, going ‘Ouch!’ ANNIE watches him expressionlessly until he desists.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tfusco6lurhflepbh3g7m7s5/bafkreihts3fxnflkahxc7f6q4gpmjmbfxxkoeerd7ksiqmqvgl2mvgerbe@jpeg)
November 29, 2025 at 7:17 PM
May we never stop trying to write cricket bats.
I’d love an update to the stuff on transport safety that you worked on. (Not sure if it was in the book or just in a paper). I’ve used it a lot for my work on how safe self-driving cars should be…
November 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I’d love an update to the stuff on transport safety that you worked on. (Not sure if it was in the book or just in a paper). I’ve used it a lot for my work on how safe self-driving cars should be…
Scrutiny in peer review can be very weird. Sometimes authors can introduce new things after peer review. Often there's no actual editorial responsibility. And peer review is not designed to detect fraud.
November 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Scrutiny in peer review can be very weird. Sometimes authors can introduce new things after peer review. Often there's no actual editorial responsibility. And peer review is not designed to detect fraud.
When the first AI generated billion-streamers start cutting through, who’d bet against the AI companies demanding a share, even though they’re currently offering just tools and gimmicks?
November 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
When the first AI generated billion-streamers start cutting through, who’d bet against the AI companies demanding a share, even though they’re currently offering just tools and gimmicks?
Doctorow discusses Unity, the games engine. Unity initially sold tools to gamers, much like Linn sold drum machines to producers. But Unity saw some games succeed and greedily changed its approach to “shared success”, taking a piece of the profit. So consider…
November 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Doctorow discusses Unity, the games engine. Unity initially sold tools to gamers, much like Linn sold drum machines to producers. But Unity saw some games succeed and greedily changed its approach to “shared success”, taking a piece of the profit. So consider…
Full thing here archive.ph/64V8s
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November 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Full thing here archive.ph/64V8s
Reposted by Jack Stilgoe
On a meta/political point of view, I have *no idea* why the Tory front benches haven't stuck the PDF of the OBR forecast into NotebookLM and got a quick readout and started asking questions
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
On a meta/political point of view, I have *no idea* why the Tory front benches haven't stuck the PDF of the OBR forecast into NotebookLM and got a quick readout and started asking questions