Andrew Smith
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Just an old bloke from Bristol. Semi-retired C software engineer.
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The US government is now freely killing people at sea, in other lands, and on its own streets.
It is difficult to see what more is needed for Congress and the Supreme Court to exercise their constitutional duty to check and balance what is now a rogue state abroad and a gangster state at home.
It is difficult to see what more is needed for Congress and the Supreme Court to exercise their constitutional duty to check and balance what is now a rogue state abroad and a gangster state at home.
January 7, 2026 at 9:39 PM
The US government is now freely killing people at sea, in other lands, and on its own streets.
It is difficult to see what more is needed for Congress and the Supreme Court to exercise their constitutional duty to check and balance what is now a rogue state abroad and a gangster state at home.
It is difficult to see what more is needed for Congress and the Supreme Court to exercise their constitutional duty to check and balance what is now a rogue state abroad and a gangster state at home.
Not only that the article talks about energy costs, capital and labour markets, which are probably the real reason. Throughout, AI is just a throw away term, they could just say IT.
January 4, 2026 at 9:18 AM
Not only that the article talks about energy costs, capital and labour markets, which are probably the real reason. Throughout, AI is just a throw away term, they could just say IT.
If they are using the term AI, it will be. It has no meaningful definition, and as such is just marketing puff. A journal such as Nature should be talking about the particular technologies , in a non-anthropomorphic way, not contributing to the mystification.
December 30, 2025 at 11:27 PM
If they are using the term AI, it will be. It has no meaningful definition, and as such is just marketing puff. A journal such as Nature should be talking about the particular technologies , in a non-anthropomorphic way, not contributing to the mystification.
Well it’s not worked for me. To avoid the slop I now use Duck Duck Go, instead of Goggle.
December 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Well it’s not worked for me. To avoid the slop I now use Duck Duck Go, instead of Goggle.
My position has always been, if an LLM can do it , then it’s not worth doing.
December 21, 2025 at 8:22 AM
My position has always been, if an LLM can do it , then it’s not worth doing.
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💯 And the same applies to any intellectual product, from papers and reviews to legal briefs, compliance plans for nuclear energy, and the fraudulent Deloitte reports. The claimed utility is predicated on misunderstanding that these artifacts must serve as testimony to cognitive processes.
To be clear, the original crime is lying about the diligence and cognitive process that are claimed to underly the report. A fake citation is secondary, and most significant as circumstantial evidence of the first.
There is now an industry around obfuscating the evidence.
There is now an industry around obfuscating the evidence.
It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur.
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December 21, 2025 at 5:50 AM
💯 And the same applies to any intellectual product, from papers and reviews to legal briefs, compliance plans for nuclear energy, and the fraudulent Deloitte reports. The claimed utility is predicated on misunderstanding that these artifacts must serve as testimony to cognitive processes.
The answer to this in the original bitcoin paper was “and routine escrow mechanisms could easily be implemented to protect buyers.”. Doesn’t that mean trusted third parties, the very thing they say bitcoin obviated
December 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The answer to this in the original bitcoin paper was “and routine escrow mechanisms could easily be implemented to protect buyers.”. Doesn’t that mean trusted third parties, the very thing they say bitcoin obviated
Totally agree. Watched the first two series and enjoyed them. Managed 2 episodes of 3, and decided had become, as you say, garbage.
December 20, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Totally agree. Watched the first two series and enjoyed them. Managed 2 episodes of 3, and decided had become, as you say, garbage.
Because of their roots in Labour, Compass have struggled with their position on Labour. Even when it becomes clear Labour are no longer a progressive party, they develop tortured reasoning so they can still support them
December 20, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Because of their roots in Labour, Compass have struggled with their position on Labour. Even when it becomes clear Labour are no longer a progressive party, they develop tortured reasoning so they can still support them