Martyn Plummer
@martynplummer.bsky.social
Statistics. Computing. Cancer Epidemiology. Public health.
Effective Altruists only needed to speak to one economist who could explain why future utilities must be discounted. This could have prevented their descent into the madness of only caring about people who don’t exist (yet).
February 5, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Effective Altruists only needed to speak to one economist who could explain why future utilities must be discounted. This could have prevented their descent into the madness of only caring about people who don’t exist (yet).
Reposted by Martyn Plummer
Offering you everything cheaper, or for nothing, costs you SO MUCH.
It’s a really expensive deal. You don’t win. Not in the end.
It’s a really expensive deal. You don’t win. Not in the end.
February 4, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Offering you everything cheaper, or for nothing, costs you SO MUCH.
It’s a really expensive deal. You don’t win. Not in the end.
It’s a really expensive deal. You don’t win. Not in the end.
Reposted by Martyn Plummer
“We don’t have trustworthy news sources or socially responsible media at all any more. But on the plus side, a machine that lies and makes us all more ignorant and furious saves me up to £3 a week. Bargain.”
February 4, 2026 at 9:38 AM
“We don’t have trustworthy news sources or socially responsible media at all any more. But on the plus side, a machine that lies and makes us all more ignorant and furious saves me up to £3 a week. Bargain.”
January 24, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Added to my Christmas list . Thanks.
About half way though Person of Interest in case you are wondering if I listen to your recommendations.
About half way though Person of Interest in case you are wondering if I listen to your recommendations.
December 13, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Added to my Christmas list . Thanks.
About half way though Person of Interest in case you are wondering if I listen to your recommendations.
About half way though Person of Interest in case you are wondering if I listen to your recommendations.
I live in Coventry South and can confirm. Sultana scraped in with a 401 majority in 2019. Her majority increased to 10000 in 2024 mainly because the Conservative vote plummeted. It was not a personal endorsement of her politics.
November 29, 2025 at 8:32 AM
I live in Coventry South and can confirm. Sultana scraped in with a 401 majority in 2019. Her majority increased to 10000 in 2024 mainly because the Conservative vote plummeted. It was not a personal endorsement of her politics.
Tim Capello in The Lost Boys (1987) was peak sax. It was all downhill from there.
November 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Tim Capello in The Lost Boys (1987) was peak sax. It was all downhill from there.
The No Kings protests in the UK today have been helpfully renamed “No Tyrants”, just to clarify that they don’t want to get rid of the actual king.
October 18, 2025 at 8:13 AM
The No Kings protests in the UK today have been helpfully renamed “No Tyrants”, just to clarify that they don’t want to get rid of the actual king.
I think it’s plausible that, under the right conditions, life is common, but intelligent life is rare (it took billions of years on Earth). Without fossil fuels a sustainable industrial revolution might be next to impossible so industrial civilisations are even more rare.
October 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I think it’s plausible that, under the right conditions, life is common, but intelligent life is rare (it took billions of years on Earth). Without fossil fuels a sustainable industrial revolution might be next to impossible so industrial civilisations are even more rare.
People have been predicting the end of the world for some time and they’ve all been wrong so far. When the world failed to end in 1844, the Millerite movement called it “The Great Disappointment“. I don’t suppose that sentiment was widely shared.
September 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
People have been predicting the end of the world for some time and they’ve all been wrong so far. When the world failed to end in 1844, the Millerite movement called it “The Great Disappointment“. I don’t suppose that sentiment was widely shared.
Yes. Melanoma is not the most common cancer in Australia but the others appear later. So when you restrict the picture to under-50s you get high peaks in Australia but also N Europe. Data from the IARC Global Cancer Observatory gco.iarc.who.int/en
September 15, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Yes. Melanoma is not the most common cancer in Australia but the others appear later. So when you restrict the picture to under-50s you get high peaks in Australia but also N Europe. Data from the IARC Global Cancer Observatory gco.iarc.who.int/en