gregwa.bsky.social
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 · 8h
Reading list? Tic Toks maybe
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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 8h
Also ..."The UK creative industries sector contributed £124.6 billion of Gross Value Added to the UK economy in 2022. The sector accounted for 5.7 per cent of UK gross valued added [...}and employed 2.4 million people in the UK in 2023, signifying the ongoing development in the industry."
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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 8h
I think the interrelatedness of AI accelerationists and their political equivalents in the project 2025 wing of MAGA means either could bring down the other. Any financial crash will be exacerbated by the political one and vice versa. What to do when it blows that doesn't offer either a life line?
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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 23h
Royal Society 75th anniversary of the Turing Test was pretty scathing about the hype and delusion around AI. The concept of AGI largely binned as were the chance of current AI (LLMs) delivering on their hype. What they couldn't figure out was how to get politicians and the media to listen.
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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 1d
yes if worn around the head and tight across the eyes to prevent any chance of catching sight of yourself
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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 2d
In addition to the obvious question of how long before the pop and how big will it be, there is the further complication of what exactly the Trump administration will do in response. I fear 'make things worse' isn't even going to come close.
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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 2d
the phrase 'le singe est dans l'arbre' is pretty much all you need
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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 2d
The trouble is the Tories (and more extremely the GOP) haven't simply vacated the space of the centre right but salted that earth on their way rightward making it very hard for it to be reoccupied.
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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 3d
That or wait for a few more of the really extreme MPs to go over to Reform and try a relaunch with what's left? That will probably have to wait until after Jenrick has conclusively shown being a Reform tribute act doesn't work.
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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 3d
As she knows she isn't getting anywhere near actual government she is instead perfecting the art of 'sound bite without responsibility.'
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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 3d
and scary uncles who shouldn't be left alone with the kids at that.
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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 3d
I think businesses would but the Tories have relied so long on bile and rage to garner support trying to construct a positive attitude on anything seems beyond them. I suspect the MAGA bubble would have to burst before anyone on the centre right can emerge who could do so and that is a big 'if'.
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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 3d
The problem is the Tories haven't just vacated that space but broken it. The ideological scaring produced by Brexit makes the prospect of a centre-right party occupying a stable enough space not to slip towards a pro EU centrist (ie. Lib Dem) position or an Atlanticist populist one impossible.
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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 3d
these are hilarious!
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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 3d
They are building stuff we don't want while simultaneously being incapable of making stuff we might want reliable enough to work. The Sinclair C5 meets Windows ME.
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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 4d
it does but I don't think a back room apology will be enough
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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 4d
The assumption that you can't buck the market has never been tested by the rouge govt in question being the USA. It can't go on forever but at what stage it is called depends on investors losing serious money and/or a tech crash rather than any concern for veracity. It will come late and be massive
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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 4d
They need to get Hislop to explain it and make a full mea culpa on behalf of the show at the very least on the next episode. They need to very publicly own this screw up. Someone will also probably have to walk the plank for it as well.
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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 4d
Unlike other tech bubbles like the railway boom or the fibre optic one after the bubble bursts these chips/data centres are so specialised they won't leave much of a useable physical asset either.
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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 4d
Also turns my cat into even more of a loon
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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 4d
The question is how large? Well over a quarter of the US stock market is tech stock banking on this stuff and planning on spending about $3 trillion over the next 3 years to do so. It probably won't be 1929 but could be 2008, but this time with a political idiocracy in the US trying to navigate it.
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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 4d
This truth of this reality (however LLM's advance they won't ever be entirely reliable or trustworthy) really doesn't seem to have filtered through to either their financial backers or the governments singing their praises as 'the' future. There will be some very serious consequences when they do.
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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 5d
So, were you really the messiah or just a very naughty boy?
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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 5d
but we're spunky in Cheadle so we totter on
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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 5d
Because 1. facts are woke. 2. hits and likes are the only numbers that matter 3. Northern Ireland is just a pain in the arse. 4. I'm only seeing out my time anyway
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