James Southern

Cory D has arrived. Additional pilons constructed.

Insufficient vespene gas.

Well you’d have to share some pictures of break disks for that?!?

If Starmer has lost James here then I don’t think Labour actually has a floor?

Yeah I don’t think we want UBI I think we want a time dividend. As AI reduces the work some gains need to result in same pay fewer hrs.

Everyone just on UBI means lots of people with no way to productively contribute to society.

Digital sovereignty https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-10547/

Are they not all dead Dave?

Oh I already have stuff I’m doing. But good to compare notes will do.

Well it is politics but in the same way that the open source movement and trade union movements are politics.

I don’t think we get very far shouting at representatives. It is a structural problem, a problem with business culture.

But it gets much much sharper with even the AI of today.

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Oh man a friend sent me this after my last post. 🤣

We hold these truths to be self evident.

A world where everyone is on UBI except Sam Altman, Elon Musk and JD Vance is a world worth fighting against.

Ok it needs some work. 🤣

Good article, I kind of think we will see something else replace the university at this point?

The model of students who just want a credential and researchers who theoretically want to advance knowledge…

Your bio says “ai alignment” but I guess I’m talking about “society alignment”.

I don’t think you can tech your way out of “the bad guys have all the power”.

Think we might get a window on this if the human + ai economy does collapse incumbents.

History suggests it will.

Friends don't let friends overanalyse single council by-elections that are very likely outliers.

Unless it becomes part of a pattern, it is just a single datapoint, which cannot outweigh all other evidence without good reason.

But the points Dylan 🥲🤣

We paid an ex-Tory MP to lobby for our fake Chinese firm - and authorities did nothing Investigation finds no rules were broken. It just goes to show how few rules there are.

Last week, UK lobbying regulator closed investigation into ex Tory MP Ben Howlett

We offered Howlett money to work for a fake Chinese investor. He introduced us to a dozen Labour MPs

Regulator didn't even speak to us. Our system is broken

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You’re talking to like a famous software person my dude.

Doesn’t mean you must be wrong! But making an argument on your authority vs theirs doesn’t really work.

Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.

I saw it described as a concept predictor

You get the app designed to fulfil objectives based on the training data then. Fine if you want what everyone else does.

I think you need set out why / what for to get better results.

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💬 Sarah Olney MP reminded the House that MPs had voted for her Proportional Representation Bill in December 2024.

❌ Inside and outside of Parliament, there is a growing acknowledgment that our voting system is not fit for purpose.

⏰ It's time to consider the alternatives.

The fragmenting political spectrum is now consolidating around two new poles: those who think the role of government is to improve productivity and prosperity vs those who think it’s to proliferate religious war in the Middle East, hasten the time of tribulation & generate content for social media.

The orchestration you are probably doing for code you can also do for ideas.

Don’t just ask yourself! I’ve been absolutely blown away by this. It will produce a lot of slop. But you can then refine it.

I do want to make sure we're being clear about this:

The Bluesky team maintains the same review, red-teaming, and QA processes that we always have. AI coding tools have been proving useful, but haven't changed the fundamental practices of good engineering. Human review and direction remain key.

You guys know anyone trying to stop the coming AI economy just spawning new big tech monopolies?

I’d be keen to get involved.

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I don’t think the current tech will produce AGI, we need to hope not because if the bad people have all the guns when it arrives they will take it away and enslave the rest of us.

So we’re on a timer to get rid of the Epstein class or the future is a robotic boot stamping on a human face— forever.

It is very important and cool that AI chat is happening on here.

AI could easily be another Industrial Revolution.

Likely the “hyper scalers” like fiber telcos before are doomed to be commodified.

But if the value this technology creates gets sewn up by the monopolists we are screwed.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

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