If all goes well, in about a year you will all learn what these people were doing in the Balearics because it will be in the news
Potentially it will be seriously headline news
Its the same thing people that do Davos every year. People with status getting a special glow from each other for being part of an exclusive, luxury event.
I've just spent the weekend in Ibiza with a mad array of super intelligent people, from billionaire investors to maverick bohemian psychonauts to world famous real estate developers to UN policy wonks with too much money
Ok so the polls have just closed and the count is underway at the polling stations (the televised count at one of them just now seemed to be entirely Erdogan votes).
Not expecting this to be anything other than a comfortable victory for the incumbent, 52% of the vote minimum I think and could easily be 54-55 or more.
So I hope some of you managed to fill your boots at the 3/1 that was on offer for Erdogan two weeks ago!
Many thanks,
DC
Thanks DC. I still miss the Election Game!
Ah thanks Andy that is much appreciated!
36% counted, Erdogan 58% KK 42 although strangely this is only on the results site and not being reported on TV yet.
And in answer to your question I don't think anyone should be expecting Erdogan to lose, currently 1.06 on Betfair.
If all goes well, in about a year you will all learn what these people were doing in the Balearics because it will be in the news
Potentially it will be seriously headline news
Its the same thing people that do Davos every year. People with status getting a special glow from each other for being part of an exclusive, luxury event.
No, it really isn't. There were Davos types there - I don't deny it - but the purpose was much more exciting and forensic than just waffling away about ecology and trade
I've just spent the weekend in Ibiza with a mad array of super intelligent people, from billionaire investors to maverick bohemian psychonauts to world famous real estate developers to UN policy wonks with too much money
They are ALL obsessed with AI. Everyone
AI-wise, we're near the Peak of Inflated Expectations right now. Soon, we'll be in the Trough of Disillusionment.
Others demur
"Elon Musk has warned that in the next two to three decades, artificial intelligence will change society so much that it will go beyond recognition. He also predicts that the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) is not far away, possibly only three to six years"
I said 10 years yesterday, and that's probably about right.
I've warned all my kids to be nice to the Nespresso machine, because in the future the machines will remember who cleaned and respected them, and those who cursed them.
I don't want to be on the wrong side of that divide.
I've just spent the weekend in Ibiza with a mad array of super intelligent people, from billionaire investors to maverick bohemian psychonauts to world famous real estate developers to UN policy wonks with too much money
They are ALL obsessed with AI. Everyone
AI-wise, we're near the Peak of Inflated Expectations right now. Soon, we'll be in the Trough of Disillusionment.
Others demur
"Elon Musk has warned that in the next two to three decades, artificial intelligence will change society so much that it will go beyond recognition. He also predicts that the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) is not far away, possibly only three to six years"
I said 10 years yesterday, and that's probably about right.
I've warned all my kids to be nice to the Nespresso machine, because in the future the machines will remember who cleaned and respected them, and those who cursed them.
I don't want to be on the wrong side of that divide.
The consensus this weekend in the Balearics was 5-10 years, so not far from your estimate
There were people at either end with more extreme positions, ie It is already here, or It will never happen
If all goes well, in about a year you will all learn what these people were doing in the Balearics because it will be in the news
Potentially it will be seriously headline news
Its the same thing people that do Davos every year. People with status getting a special glow from each other for being part of an exclusive, luxury event.
No, it really isn't. There were Davos types there - I don't deny it - but the purpose was much more exciting and forensic than just waffling away about ecology and trade
It's easy to mock you, and there's obviously an element of sour grapes, because I am sure it was far more glamorous than most other peoples' weekends. However, I must say it does all just sound a little sad. Anyway, glad you're there to report back to us, and that you're enjoying it.
If all goes well, in about a year you will all learn what these people were doing in the Balearics because it will be in the news
Potentially it will be seriously headline news
Its the same thing people that do Davos every year. People with status getting a special glow from each other for being part of an exclusive, luxury event.
No, it really isn't. There were Davos types there - I don't deny it - but the purpose was much more exciting and forensic than just waffling away about ecology and trade
It's easy to mock you, and there's obviously an element of sour grapes, because I am sure it was far more glamorous than most other peoples' weekends. However, I must say it does all just sound a little sad. Anyway, glad you're there to report back to us, and that you're enjoying it.
I genuinely wish I could tell you the purpose of the gathering. It is the opposite of "sad". It is one of the most compelling, uplifting and intriguing endeavours I have ever encountered. It is absolutely extraordinary. A proper mind fuck. Off the dial
But I can't tell you for multiple reasons and so I will have to allow your opinions to go unchallenged. Hopefully some time in the next 6-18 months I will be able to say: Yeah, that was it, that's the Thing
If it all fails, I shall just pretend I never said any of this
If all goes well, in about a year you will all learn what these people were doing in the Balearics because it will be in the news
Potentially it will be seriously headline news
Its the same thing people that do Davos every year. People with status getting a special glow from each other for being part of an exclusive, luxury event.
No, it really isn't. There were Davos types there - I don't deny it - but the purpose was much more exciting and forensic than just waffling away about ecology and trade
It's easy to mock you, and there's obviously an element of sour grapes, because I am sure it was far more glamorous than most other peoples' weekends. However, I must say it does all just sound a little sad. Anyway, glad you're there to report back to us, and that you're enjoying it.
I genuinely wish I could tell you the purpose of the gathering. It is the opposite of "sad". It is one of the most compelling, uplifting and intriguing endeavours I have ever encountered. It is absolutely extraordinary. A proper mind fuck. Off the dial
But I can't tell you for multiple reasons and so I will have to allow your opinions to go unchallenged. Hopefully some time in the next 6-18 months I will be able to say: Yeah, that was it, that's the Thing
If it all fails, I shall just pretend I never said any of this
Why can't you tell us? Are you working for MI5 now? And re your other post how is it forensic?
If all goes well, in about a year you will all learn what these people were doing in the Balearics because it will be in the news
Potentially it will be seriously headline news
Its the same thing people that do Davos every year. People with status getting a special glow from each other for being part of an exclusive, luxury event.
No, it really isn't. There were Davos types there - I don't deny it - but the purpose was much more exciting and forensic than just waffling away about ecology and trade
It's easy to mock you, and there's obviously an element of sour grapes, because I am sure it was far more glamorous than most other peoples' weekends. However, I must say it does all just sound a little sad. Anyway, glad you're there to report back to us, and that you're enjoying it.
I genuinely wish I could tell you the purpose of the gathering. It is the opposite of "sad". It is one of the most compelling, uplifting and intriguing endeavours I have ever encountered. It is absolutely extraordinary. A proper mind fuck. Off the dial
But I can't tell you for multiple reasons and so I will have to allow your opinions to go unchallenged. Hopefully some time in the next 6-18 months I will be able to say: Yeah, that was it, that's the Thing
If it all fails, I shall just pretend I never said any of this
Why can't you tell us? Are you working for MI5 now? And re your other post how is it forensic?
Because I've agreed to stay shtoom (as have others) - that's part of the price for joining the endeavour
It is the single most interesting project I have ever been engaged with, by some margin. It leads to hair-raising conversations in taxis across Majorca, where world changing stuff is casually discussed
If all goes well, in about a year you will all learn what these people were doing in the Balearics because it will be in the news
Potentially it will be seriously headline news
Its the same thing people that do Davos every year. People with status getting a special glow from each other for being part of an exclusive, luxury event.
No, it really isn't. There were Davos types there - I don't deny it - but the purpose was much more exciting and forensic than just waffling away about ecology and trade
It's easy to mock you, and there's obviously an element of sour grapes, because I am sure it was far more glamorous than most other peoples' weekends. However, I must say it does all just sound a little sad. Anyway, glad you're there to report back to us, and that you're enjoying it.
Oh I don't know, I nearly saw a fight break out between a ukulele band and the Punch and Judy act who were drowning each other out.
If all goes well, in about a year you will all learn what these people were doing in the Balearics because it will be in the news
Potentially it will be seriously headline news
Its the same thing people that do Davos every year. People with status getting a special glow from each other for being part of an exclusive, luxury event.
No, it really isn't. There were Davos types there - I don't deny it - but the purpose was much more exciting and forensic than just waffling away about ecology and trade
It's easy to mock you, and there's obviously an element of sour grapes, because I am sure it was far more glamorous than most other peoples' weekends. However, I must say it does all just sound a little sad. Anyway, glad you're there to report back to us, and that you're enjoying it.
Oh I don't know, I nearly saw a fight break out between a ukulele band and the Punch and Judy act who were drowning each other out.
If all goes well, in about a year you will all learn what these people were doing in the Balearics because it will be in the news
Potentially it will be seriously headline news
Its the same thing people that do Davos every year. People with status getting a special glow from each other for being part of an exclusive, luxury event.
No, it really isn't. There were Davos types there - I don't deny it - but the purpose was much more exciting and forensic than just waffling away about ecology and trade
It's easy to mock you, and there's obviously an element of sour grapes, because I am sure it was far more glamorous than most other peoples' weekends. However, I must say it does all just sound a little sad. Anyway, glad you're there to report back to us, and that you're enjoying it.
I genuinely wish I could tell you the purpose of the gathering. It is the opposite of "sad". It is one of the most compelling, uplifting and intriguing endeavours I have ever encountered. It is absolutely extraordinary. A proper mind fuck. Off the dial
But I can't tell you for multiple reasons and so I will have to allow your opinions to go unchallenged. Hopefully some time in the next 6-18 months I will be able to say: Yeah, that was it, that's the Thing
If it all fails, I shall just pretend I never said any of this
Why can't you tell us? Are you working for MI5 now? And re your other post how is it forensic?
Because I've agreed to stay shtoom (as have others) - that's part of the price for joining the endeavour
It is the single most interesting project I have ever been engaged with, by some margin. It leads to hair-raising conversations in taxis across Majorca, where world changing stuff is casually discussed
These taxi drivers - were they Albanians by any chance?
If all goes well, in about a year you will all learn what these people were doing in the Balearics because it will be in the news
Potentially it will be seriously headline news
Its the same thing people that do Davos every year. People with status getting a special glow from each other for being part of an exclusive, luxury event.
No, it really isn't. There were Davos types there - I don't deny it - but the purpose was much more exciting and forensic than just waffling away about ecology and trade
It's easy to mock you, and there's obviously an element of sour grapes, because I am sure it was far more glamorous than most other peoples' weekends. However, I must say it does all just sound a little sad. Anyway, glad you're there to report back to us, and that you're enjoying it.
I genuinely wish I could tell you the purpose of the gathering. It is the opposite of "sad". It is one of the most compelling, uplifting and intriguing endeavours I have ever encountered. It is absolutely extraordinary. A proper mind fuck. Off the dial
But I can't tell you for multiple reasons and so I will have to allow your opinions to go unchallenged. Hopefully some time in the next 6-18 months I will be able to say: Yeah, that was it, that's the Thing
If it all fails, I shall just pretend I never said any of this
Why can't you tell us? Are you working for MI5 now? And re your other post how is it forensic?
Because I've agreed to stay shtoom (as have others) - that's part of the price for joining the endeavour
It is the single most interesting project I have ever been engaged with, by some margin. It leads to hair-raising conversations in taxis across Majorca, where world changing stuff is casually discussed
If all goes well, in about a year you will all learn what these people were doing in the Balearics because it will be in the news
Potentially it will be seriously headline news
Its the same thing people that do Davos every year. People with status getting a special glow from each other for being part of an exclusive, luxury event.
No, it really isn't. There were Davos types there - I don't deny it - but the purpose was much more exciting and forensic than just waffling away about ecology and trade
It's easy to mock you, and there's obviously an element of sour grapes, because I am sure it was far more glamorous than most other peoples' weekends. However, I must say it does all just sound a little sad. Anyway, glad you're there to report back to us, and that you're enjoying it.
I genuinely wish I could tell you the purpose of the gathering. It is the opposite of "sad". It is one of the most compelling, uplifting and intriguing endeavours I have ever encountered. It is absolutely extraordinary. A proper mind fuck. Off the dial
But I can't tell you for multiple reasons and so I will have to allow your opinions to go unchallenged. Hopefully some time in the next 6-18 months I will be able to say: Yeah, that was it, that's the Thing
If it all fails, I shall just pretend I never said any of this
Why can't you tell us? Are you working for MI5 now? And re your other post how is it forensic?
Because I've agreed to stay shtoom (as have others) - that's part of the price for joining the endeavour
It is the single most interesting project I have ever been engaged with, by some margin. It leads to hair-raising conversations in taxis across Majorca, where world changing stuff is casually discussed
If all goes well, in about a year you will all learn what these people were doing in the Balearics because it will be in the news
Potentially it will be seriously headline news
Its the same thing people that do Davos every year. People with status getting a special glow from each other for being part of an exclusive, luxury event.
No, it really isn't. There were Davos types there - I don't deny it - but the purpose was much more exciting and forensic than just waffling away about ecology and trade
It's easy to mock you, and there's obviously an element of sour grapes, because I am sure it was far more glamorous than most other peoples' weekends. However, I must say it does all just sound a little sad. Anyway, glad you're there to report back to us, and that you're enjoying it.
I genuinely wish I could tell you the purpose of the gathering. It is the opposite of "sad". It is one of the most compelling, uplifting and intriguing endeavours I have ever encountered. It is absolutely extraordinary. A proper mind fuck. Off the dial
But I can't tell you for multiple reasons and so I will have to allow your opinions to go unchallenged. Hopefully some time in the next 6-18 months I will be able to say: Yeah, that was it, that's the Thing
If it all fails, I shall just pretend I never said any of this
Why can't you tell us? Are you working for MI5 now? And re your other post how is it forensic?
AI seems like Leon’s flint dildos. An interesting concept that will never be as much fun as the real thing.
If all goes well, in about a year you will all learn what these people were doing in the Balearics because it will be in the news
Potentially it will be seriously headline news
Its the same thing people that do Davos every year. People with status getting a special glow from each other for being part of an exclusive, luxury event.
No, it really isn't. There were Davos types there - I don't deny it - but the purpose was much more exciting and forensic than just waffling away about ecology and trade
It's easy to mock you, and there's obviously an element of sour grapes, because I am sure it was far more glamorous than most other peoples' weekends. However, I must say it does all just sound a little sad. Anyway, glad you're there to report back to us, and that you're enjoying it.
I genuinely wish I could tell you the purpose of the gathering. It is the opposite of "sad". It is one of the most compelling, uplifting and intriguing endeavours I have ever encountered. It is absolutely extraordinary. A proper mind fuck. Off the dial
But I can't tell you for multiple reasons and so I will have to allow your opinions to go unchallenged. Hopefully some time in the next 6-18 months I will be able to say: Yeah, that was it, that's the Thing
If it all fails, I shall just pretend I never said any of this
Why can't you tell us? Are you working for MI5 now? And re your other post how is it forensic?
Because I've agreed to stay shtoom (as have others) - that's part of the price for joining the endeavour
It is the single most interesting project I have ever been engaged with, by some margin. It leads to hair-raising conversations in taxis across Majorca, where world changing stuff is casually discussed
So we need to ask a taxi driver then?
Not when they are self driving
HINT
Well if that is it I don't think that is far off. I was gobsmaked by what my new car can do. I can park it while not in the car and it self steers while doing so.. It brakes if it detects a possible collision in front or if I pull out into traffic. It corrects the steering (which is annoying). I can give it verbal commands, eg open the boot. Etc. I mean that isn't far off is it?
Spurs fans may laugh that Arsenal spent a record 248 days at the top of the league this season without winning it. Spurs have spent a total of 135 days at the top of the league since 1964 and not won it. That’s funnier.
People make the fundamental mistake of assuming Spurs is a football team. It’s not. It’s a highly profitable business.
They have figured out that coming 4/5 and qualifying for Europe offers the highest return on capital (especially when combined with effective scouting and talent spotting in the lower leagues). The alternative is trying to outspend someone like Man City - with richer owners who don’t care about financial returns - that’s a fool’s errand
If all goes well, in about a year you will all learn what these people were doing in the Balearics because it will be in the news
Potentially it will be seriously headline news
Its the same thing people that do Davos every year. People with status getting a special glow from each other for being part of an exclusive, luxury event.
No, it really isn't. There were Davos types there - I don't deny it - but the purpose was much more exciting and forensic than just waffling away about ecology and trade
It's easy to mock you, and there's obviously an element of sour grapes, because I am sure it was far more glamorous than most other peoples' weekends. However, I must say it does all just sound a little sad. Anyway, glad you're there to report back to us, and that you're enjoying it.
I genuinely wish I could tell you the purpose of the gathering. It is the opposite of "sad". It is one of the most compelling, uplifting and intriguing endeavours I have ever encountered. It is absolutely extraordinary. A proper mind fuck. Off the dial
But I can't tell you for multiple reasons and so I will have to allow your opinions to go unchallenged. Hopefully some time in the next 6-18 months I will be able to say: Yeah, that was it, that's the Thing
If it all fails, I shall just pretend I never said any of this
Why can't you tell us? Are you working for MI5 now? And re your other post how is it forensic?
Because I've agreed to stay shtoom (as have others) - that's part of the price for joining the endeavour
It is the single most interesting project I have ever been engaged with, by some margin. It leads to hair-raising conversations in taxis across Majorca, where world changing stuff is casually discussed
So we need to ask a taxi driver then?
Not when they are self driving
HINT
Well if that is it I don't think that is far off. I was gobsmaked by what my new car can do. I can park it while not in the car and it self steers while doing so.. It brakes if it detects a possible collision in front of if I pull out into traffic. It corrects the steering (which is annoying). I can give it verbal commands, eg open the boot. Etc. I mean that isn't far off is it?
Take that and read across to......
GAH
I really can't say. It is bigger than that. Is all
I accept that this all sounds like delusional wank so I will shut up
Well if anyone else thinks "this race is very tight" as per the BBC, feel free to grab KK on Betfair at 17.5.
That's typical Beeb. They pretend things are close and exciting when they aren't. They do it every year with the boat race. Erdogan has clearly 'got the water' here and it's all over even though we haven't yet passed the Harrods Book Depository.
Fwiw, Neuralink is likely to face a massive amount of heat for their treatment of animals. I'm not a squeemish person, but Some of the stories about the treatment of monkeys in experiments are jaw dropping awful.
I've just spent the weekend in Ibiza with a mad array of super intelligent people, from billionaire investors to maverick bohemian psychonauts to world famous real estate developers to UN policy wonks with too much money
They are ALL obsessed with AI. Everyone
AI-wise, we're near the Peak of Inflated Expectations right now. Soon, we'll be in the Trough of Disillusionment.
Others demur
"Elon Musk has warned that in the next two to three decades, artificial intelligence will change society so much that it will go beyond recognition. He also predicts that the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) is not far away, possibly only three to six years"
Elon Musk is a hype man, a phony of astral depth, a 20 foot glitter turd.
All true. But Musk is also someone who knows how to solve complex technical and industrial challenges to create useful and desirable products. That combination of hype and technical expertise is very rare and is what is behind the success of Tesla and SpaceX.
There's a really weird type of person who genuinely believes Musk is a fraud and devoid of true imagination: a charlatan. A lucky snake oil salesman. I've seen people on Twitter arguing that he is really quite stupid
It is bizarre. Has he made terrible errors? And encountered disasters? Of course he has, he's a risk taker. An entrepreneur. But the idea he is dim is sensationally dim in itself
Musk said Neuralink tech would hit the market in 2021. He said the world would be sleeping in their self driving cars by 2019. In 2014 he said there would be seriously dangerous AGI in five years. The guy clearly has talent in identifying the right startups to back, and in self publicity, but he is also a frequently wrong blowhard.
You back 100 horses you're bound to get some winners.
He's managed more success than simply backing a few right horses, I don't think anyone says he is completely stupid, but even before buying it twitter was very bad for his reputation, since it's shown he frequently engages in low grade trolling and inflated assumptions of his own understanding of things and situations, and has incredibly thin skin about it - which is just petty. You're rich enough to not give a shit, no need for pettiness.
It's the old VC con, too. Back 15 things (with other people's money). Get 1 hit. Get people to put more money in at increased valuation. Declare a mega-hit. Rinse and repeat.
You literally discount the failures and artificially ratchet the successes. It's worked well for 40 years, but it is already starting to creak.
They won't care; that generation of the megawealthy is well insulated against failure.
Interesting that you think that VC is the problem.
VC is people trying to find the next Big Thing with their own money. Which they risk.
And yet I've had people trying to claim that VC was responsible for 2008. Or is, what is actually chop shop version of hedge funds.
The AfD are approaching second place in the German polls.
One thought that does occur to me about Starmer is pretty much every other soft left wing European party seems to be either on the defensive or actively imploding with its votes haemorrhaging off to other parties, as we see here with the SPD. Labour isn't.
Sure, it may have been lucky the obvious alternatives in the LDs and SNP decided to self-immolate in spectacular fashion. But it's still an interesting bucking of the general trend.
And it's not so long ago that Labour were part of it, as well.
Let's remember that Rishi was in Johnson's Cabinet from the beginning until vanishingly close to the end.
Given that track record, what's the evidence that he can notice lack of integrity, unprofessionalism or unaccountability, let alone be able to do anything about them?
He was happy at both Goldman and TCIF. That speaks volumes about his integrity
I've just spent the weekend in Ibiza with a mad array of super intelligent people, from billionaire investors to maverick bohemian psychonauts to world famous real estate developers to UN policy wonks with too much money
They are ALL obsessed with AI. Everyone
AI-wise, we're near the Peak of Inflated Expectations right now. Soon, we'll be in the Trough of Disillusionment.
Others demur
"Elon Musk has warned that in the next two to three decades, artificial intelligence will change society so much that it will go beyond recognition. He also predicts that the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) is not far away, possibly only three to six years"
Elon Musk is a hype man, a phony of astral depth, a 20 foot glitter turd.
All true. But Musk is also someone who knows how to solve complex technical and industrial challenges to create useful and desirable products. That combination of hype and technical expertise is very rare and is what is behind the success of Tesla and SpaceX.
There's a really weird type of person who genuinely believes Musk is a fraud and devoid of true imagination: a charlatan. A lucky snake oil salesman. I've seen people on Twitter arguing that he is really quite stupid
It is bizarre. Has he made terrible errors? And encountered disasters? Of course he has, he's a risk taker. An entrepreneur. But the idea he is dim is sensationally dim in itself
Musk said Neuralink tech would hit the market in 2021. He said the world would be sleeping in their self driving cars by 2019. In 2014 he said there would be seriously dangerous AGI in five years. The guy clearly has talent in identifying the right startups to back, and in self publicity, but he is also a frequently wrong blowhard.
You back 100 horses you're bound to get some winners.
He's managed more success than simply backing a few right horses, I don't think anyone says he is completely stupid, but even before buying it twitter was very bad for his reputation, since it's shown he frequently engages in low grade trolling and inflated assumptions of his own understanding of things and situations, and has incredibly thin skin about it - which is just petty. You're rich enough to not give a shit, no need for pettiness.
It's the old VC con, too. Back 15 things (with other people's money). Get 1 hit. Get people to put more money in at increased valuation. Declare a mega-hit. Rinse and repeat.
You literally discount the failures and artificially ratchet the successes. It's worked well for 40 years, but it is already starting to creak.
They won't care; that generation of the megawealthy is well insulated against failure.
Interesting that you think that VC is the problem.
VC is people trying to find the next Big Thing with their own money. Which they risk.
And yet I've had people trying to claim that VC was responsible for 2008. Or is, what is actually chop shop version of hedge funds.
The problem with the VC world is that either everything is getting funded, or nothing is getting funded. It would be nice if it could instead be some happy medium.
Let's remember that Rishi was in Johnson's Cabinet from the beginning until vanishingly close to the end.
Given that track record, what's the evidence that he can notice lack of integrity, unprofessionalism or unaccountability, let alone be able to do anything about them?
He was happy at both Goldman and TCIF. That speaks volumes about his integrity
I've just spent the weekend in Ibiza with a mad array of super intelligent people, from billionaire investors to maverick bohemian psychonauts to world famous real estate developers to UN policy wonks with too much money
They are ALL obsessed with AI. Everyone
AI-wise, we're near the Peak of Inflated Expectations right now. Soon, we'll be in the Trough of Disillusionment.
Others demur
"Elon Musk has warned that in the next two to three decades, artificial intelligence will change society so much that it will go beyond recognition. He also predicts that the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) is not far away, possibly only three to six years"
Elon Musk is a hype man, a phony of astral depth, a 20 foot glitter turd.
All true. But Musk is also someone who knows how to solve complex technical and industrial challenges to create useful and desirable products. That combination of hype and technical expertise is very rare and is what is behind the success of Tesla and SpaceX.
There's a really weird type of person who genuinely believes Musk is a fraud and devoid of true imagination: a charlatan. A lucky snake oil salesman. I've seen people on Twitter arguing that he is really quite stupid
It is bizarre. Has he made terrible errors? And encountered disasters? Of course he has, he's a risk taker. An entrepreneur. But the idea he is dim is sensationally dim in itself
Musk said Neuralink tech would hit the market in 2021. He said the world would be sleeping in their self driving cars by 2019. In 2014 he said there would be seriously dangerous AGI in five years. The guy clearly has talent in identifying the right startups to back, and in self publicity, but he is also a frequently wrong blowhard.
You back 100 horses you're bound to get some winners.
He's managed more success than simply backing a few right horses, I don't think anyone says he is completely stupid, but even before buying it twitter was very bad for his reputation, since it's shown he frequently engages in low grade trolling and inflated assumptions of his own understanding of things and situations, and has incredibly thin skin about it - which is just petty. You're rich enough to not give a shit, no need for pettiness.
It's the old VC con, too. Back 15 things (with other people's money). Get 1 hit. Get people to put more money in at increased valuation. Declare a mega-hit. Rinse and repeat.
You literally discount the failures and artificially ratchet the successes. It's worked well for 40 years, but it is already starting to creak.
They won't care; that generation of the megawealthy is well insulated against failure.
Interesting that you think that VC is the problem.
VC is people trying to find the next Big Thing with their own money. Which they risk.
And yet I've had people trying to claim that VC was responsible for 2008. Or is, what is actually chop shop version of hedge funds.
The problem with the VC world is that either everything is getting funded, or nothing is getting funded. It would be nice if it could instead be some happy medium.
It's certainly better than the situation in the UK - where if you are starting a company, the banks will offer you a tiny amount of money. At credit card rates.
I recall after 2008, some banks tried to lobby Washington to basically freeze individuals out of VC - they were upset that VC investors were offering people better terms to invest, when they (the banks) desperately needed new markets....
Let's remember that Rishi was in Johnson's Cabinet from the beginning until vanishingly close to the end.
Given that track record, what's the evidence that he can notice lack of integrity, unprofessionalism or unaccountability, let alone be able to do anything about them?
And Starmer stuck with Corbyn right till the end......
I'm less vexed about this than other things about Keir Starmer. I can see the point of working inside a cabinet or shadow cabinet to try and moderate it. I don't have a problem with that.
I dislike Jeremy Corbyn's views on many issues but lack of integrity, flagrant dishonesty, and lying aren't his hallmarks. Which they are of the Conservative reprobates TSE wrote about.
Unless it’s a cover to protect other sources, why did it take the french and dutch police to catch him out, before the British police bought him to justice?
There should be fucking riots on the streets about this. The conservatives did this to us. How fucking dare they?
I enabled this man, with my Tory vote back in 2012. I won’t make the same mistake again.
The article says that it makes no suggestion his mother was aware of her son’s criminal activities. What is your reason for blaming the Tories for the failure of the police?
If all goes well, in about a year you will all learn what these people were doing in the Balearics because it will be in the news
Potentially it will be seriously headline news
Its the same thing people that do Davos every year. People with status getting a special glow from each other for being part of an exclusive, luxury event.
No, it really isn't. There were Davos types there - I don't deny it - but the purpose was much more exciting and forensic than just waffling away about ecology and trade
It's easy to mock you, and there's obviously an element of sour grapes, because I am sure it was far more glamorous than most other peoples' weekends. However, I must say it does all just sound a little sad. Anyway, glad you're there to report back to us, and that you're enjoying it.
I genuinely wish I could tell you the purpose of the gathering. It is the opposite of "sad". It is one of the most compelling, uplifting and intriguing endeavours I have ever encountered. It is absolutely extraordinary. A proper mind fuck. Off the dial
But I can't tell you for multiple reasons and so I will have to allow your opinions to go unchallenged. Hopefully some time in the next 6-18 months I will be able to say: Yeah, that was it, that's the Thing
If it all fails, I shall just pretend I never said any of this
Why can't you tell us? Are you working for MI5 now? And re your other post how is it forensic?
Because I've agreed to stay shtoom (as have others) - that's part of the price for joining the endeavour
It is the single most interesting project I have ever been engaged with, by some margin. It leads to hair-raising conversations in taxis across Majorca, where world changing stuff is casually discussed
So we need to ask a taxi driver then?
Not when they are self driving
HINT
Well if that is it I don't think that is far off. I was gobsmaked by what my new car can do. I can park it while not in the car and it self steers while doing so.. It brakes if it detects a possible collision in front of if I pull out into traffic. It corrects the steering (which is annoying). I can give it verbal commands, eg open the boot. Etc. I mean that isn't far off is it?
Take that and read across to......
GAH
I really can't say. It is bigger than that. Is all
I accept that this all sounds like delusional wank so I will shut up
Yes, probably best because it sounds like you've been entrusted with something huge.
I've just spent the weekend in Ibiza with a mad array of super intelligent people, from billionaire investors to maverick bohemian psychonauts to world famous real estate developers to UN policy wonks with too much money
They are ALL obsessed with AI. Everyone
AI-wise, we're near the Peak of Inflated Expectations right now. Soon, we'll be in the Trough of Disillusionment.
I'll be interesting to see where all this goes when someone kills himself or a member of his family because ChatGPT told him that drinking bleach, antifreeze and honey cures toothache. Tragic, but something like this is bound to happen sooner or later.
Think that ChatGPT stole THAT prescription from Donald Trump?
If all goes well, in about a year you will all learn what these people were doing in the Balearics because it will be in the news
Potentially it will be seriously headline news
Its the same thing people that do Davos every year. People with status getting a special glow from each other for being part of an exclusive, luxury event.
No, it really isn't. There were Davos types there - I don't deny it - but the purpose was much more exciting and forensic than just waffling away about ecology and trade
It's easy to mock you, and there's obviously an element of sour grapes, because I am sure it was far more glamorous than most other peoples' weekends. However, I must say it does all just sound a little sad. Anyway, glad you're there to report back to us, and that you're enjoying it.
I genuinely wish I could tell you the purpose of the gathering. It is the opposite of "sad". It is one of the most compelling, uplifting and intriguing endeavours I have ever encountered. It is absolutely extraordinary. A proper mind fuck. Off the dial
But I can't tell you for multiple reasons and so I will have to allow your opinions to go unchallenged. Hopefully some time in the next 6-18 months I will be able to say: Yeah, that was it, that's the Thing
If it all fails, I shall just pretend I never said any of this
Why can't you tell us? Are you working for MI5 now? And re your other post how is it forensic?
Because I've agreed to stay shtoom (as have others) - that's part of the price for joining the endeavour
It is the single most interesting project I have ever been engaged with, by some margin. It leads to hair-raising conversations in taxis across Majorca, where world changing stuff is casually discussed
So we need to ask a taxi driver then?
Not when they are self driving
HINT
Well if that is it I don't think that is far off. I was gobsmaked by what my new car can do. I can park it while not in the car and it self steers while doing so.. It brakes if it detects a possible collision in front of if I pull out into traffic. It corrects the steering (which is annoying). I can give it verbal commands, eg open the boot. Etc. I mean that isn't far off is it?
Take that and read across to......
GAH
I really can't say. It is bigger than that. Is all
I accept that this all sounds like delusional wank so I will shut up
Yes, probably best because it sounds like you've been entrusted with something huge.
Thanks. At least SOMEONE understands
Imagine if you were privy to a secret which could change your lifelong world of chartered accountancy forever, you’d be bursting to tell everyone
Let's remember that Rishi was in Johnson's Cabinet from the beginning until vanishingly close to the end.
Given that track record, what's the evidence that he can notice lack of integrity, unprofessionalism or unaccountability, let alone be able to do anything about them?
And Starmer stuck with Corbyn right till the end......
I'm less vexed about this than other things about Keir Starmer. I can see the point of working inside a cabinet or shadow cabinet to try and moderate it. I don't have a problem with that.
I dislike Jeremy Corbyn's views on many issues but lack of integrity, flagrant dishonesty, and lying aren't his hallmarks. Which they are of the Conservative reprobates TSE wrote about.
4 legs good, 2 legs bad
I have read Animal Farm several times. Nonetheless I don't have a Scooby Doo as to what that post is telling me.
I've just spent the weekend in Ibiza with a mad array of super intelligent people, from billionaire investors to maverick bohemian psychonauts to world famous real estate developers to UN policy wonks with too much money
They are ALL obsessed with AI. Everyone
What is a "psychonaut"?
My eyebrows were raised higher on the notion of "world famous" estate agents.
It sounds like the dinner party from Hell. Estate Agents, the drug addled, political SPADS, a playboy and a right-wing jobbing hack. Imagine the aroma of BS.
It wasn’t a dinner party. It was a weekend
At one point we all went to a secret music gig in an enchanted dell where you could have mind altering cacao drinks and gawp at the billlonaire heiresses
They don’t really look like they are enjoying themselves
Unless it’s a cover to protect other sources, why did it take the french and dutch police to catch him out, before the British police bought him to justice?
There should be fucking riots on the streets about this. The conservatives did this to us. How fucking dare they?
I enabled this man, with my Tory vote back in 2012. I won’t make the same mistake again.
The article says that it makes no suggestion his mother was aware of her son’s criminal activities. What is your reason for blaming the Tories for the failure of the police?
He's making the not unreasonable assumption that Mum is likely to have known something.
Not sure where the connection with the Tories comes from though. Seems to me the malaise in the Police Force goes back more than thirteen years and has structural origins that appear to be beyond all Parties.
I've just spent the weekend in Ibiza with a mad array of super intelligent people, from billionaire investors to maverick bohemian psychonauts to world famous real estate developers to UN policy wonks with too much money
They are ALL obsessed with AI. Everyone
What is a "psychonaut"?
My eyebrows were raised higher on the notion of "world famous" estate agents.
It sounds like the dinner party from Hell. Estate Agents, the drug addled, political SPADS, a playboy and a right-wing jobbing hack. Imagine the aroma of BS.
It wasn’t a dinner party. It was a weekend
At one point we all went to a secret music gig in an enchanted dell where you could have mind altering cacao drinks and gawp at the billlonaire heiresses
Did this all happened after the pyschonaut got his gear out?
If all goes well, in about a year you will all learn what these people were doing in the Balearics because it will be in the news
Potentially it will be seriously headline news
Its the same thing people that do Davos every year. People with status getting a special glow from each other for being part of an exclusive, luxury event.
No, it really isn't. There were Davos types there - I don't deny it - but the purpose was much more exciting and forensic than just waffling away about ecology and trade
It's easy to mock you, and there's obviously an element of sour grapes, because I am sure it was far more glamorous than most other peoples' weekends. However, I must say it does all just sound a little sad. Anyway, glad you're there to report back to us, and that you're enjoying it.
I genuinely wish I could tell you the purpose of the gathering. It is the opposite of "sad". It is one of the most compelling, uplifting and intriguing endeavours I have ever encountered. It is absolutely extraordinary. A proper mind fuck. Off the dial
But I can't tell you for multiple reasons and so I will have to allow your opinions to go unchallenged. Hopefully some time in the next 6-18 months I will be able to say: Yeah, that was it, that's the Thing
If it all fails, I shall just pretend I never said any of this
I've just spent the weekend in Ibiza with a mad array of super intelligent people, from billionaire investors to maverick bohemian psychonauts to world famous real estate developers to UN policy wonks with too much money
They are ALL obsessed with AI. Everyone
AI-wise, we're near the Peak of Inflated Expectations right now. Soon, we'll be in the Trough of Disillusionment.
Others demur
"Elon Musk has warned that in the next two to three decades, artificial intelligence will change society so much that it will go beyond recognition. He also predicts that the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) is not far away, possibly only three to six years"
The solution is probably to let him have more money and power, and stop interferring with his businesses I bet.
It is hard to place too much credibility in Elon Musk given the number of wrong predictions he has made to date and recent events has shown him to have wildly poor judgment.
it doesn't really matter whether you believe Musk or not
The fact is - as my experience in Ibiza revealed - people who are paid to think and make predictions about this stuff, or people who have so much money they can influence or benefit from this stuff, to people who are free thinking weirdos with massive Twitter followings, are all OBSESSED with AI
It was like being parachuted into my intellectual home. My kind of dudes. AI, AI, AI - then some more excellent wine - then back to AI
You haven't told us why they're obsessed with AI.
They can now personalise their anime smut with the click of a button?
I've just spent the weekend in Ibiza with a mad array of super intelligent people, from billionaire investors to maverick bohemian psychonauts to world famous real estate developers to UN policy wonks with too much money
They are ALL obsessed with AI. Everyone
AI-wise, we're near the Peak of Inflated Expectations right now. Soon, we'll be in the Trough of Disillusionment.
Others demur
"Elon Musk has warned that in the next two to three decades, artificial intelligence will change society so much that it will go beyond recognition. He also predicts that the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) is not far away, possibly only three to six years"
Elon Musk is a hype man, a phony of astral depth, a 20 foot glitter turd.
All true. But Musk is also someone who knows how to solve complex technical and industrial challenges to create useful and desirable products. That combination of hype and technical expertise is very rare and is what is behind the success of Tesla and SpaceX.
There's a really weird type of person who genuinely believes Musk is a fraud and devoid of true imagination: a charlatan. A lucky snake oil salesman. I've seen people on Twitter arguing that he is really quite stupid
It is bizarre. Has he made terrible errors? And encountered disasters? Of course he has, he's a risk taker. An entrepreneur. But the idea he is dim is sensationally dim in itself
Musk said Neuralink tech would hit the market in 2021. He said the world would be sleeping in their self driving cars by 2019. In 2014 he said there would be seriously dangerous AGI in five years. The guy clearly has talent in identifying the right startups to back, and in self publicity, but he is also a frequently wrong blowhard.
You back 100 horses you're bound to get some winners.
He's managed more success than simply backing a few right horses, I don't think anyone says he is completely stupid, but even before buying it twitter was very bad for his reputation, since it's shown he frequently engages in low grade trolling and inflated assumptions of his own understanding of things and situations, and has incredibly thin skin about it - which is just petty. You're rich enough to not give a shit, no need for pettiness.
It's the old VC con, too. Back 15 things (with other people's money). Get 1 hit. Get people to put more money in at increased valuation. Declare a mega-hit. Rinse and repeat.
You literally discount the failures and artificially ratchet the successes. It's worked well for 40 years, but it is already starting to creak.
They won't care; that generation of the megawealthy is well insulated against failure.
Interesting that you think that VC is the problem.
VC is people trying to find the next Big Thing with their own money. Which they risk.
And yet I've had people trying to claim that VC was responsible for 2008. Or is, what is actually chop shop version of hedge funds.
The problem with the VC world is that either everything is getting funded, or nothing is getting funded. It would be nice if it could instead be some happy medium.
It's not private money that is the problem, of course. It is the way investments and valuations are leveraged to keep the money-go-round going which is not well aligned with the creation and sustainability of great businesses.
If all goes well, in about a year you will all learn what these people were doing in the Balearics because it will be in the news
Potentially it will be seriously headline news
Its the same thing people that do Davos every year. People with status getting a special glow from each other for being part of an exclusive, luxury event.
No, it really isn't. There were Davos types there - I don't deny it - but the purpose was much more exciting and forensic than just waffling away about ecology and trade
It's easy to mock you, and there's obviously an element of sour grapes, because I am sure it was far more glamorous than most other peoples' weekends. However, I must say it does all just sound a little sad. Anyway, glad you're there to report back to us, and that you're enjoying it.
I genuinely wish I could tell you the purpose of the gathering. It is the opposite of "sad". It is one of the most compelling, uplifting and intriguing endeavours I have ever encountered. It is absolutely extraordinary. A proper mind fuck. Off the dial
But I can't tell you for multiple reasons and so I will have to allow your opinions to go unchallenged. Hopefully some time in the next 6-18 months I will be able to say: Yeah, that was it, that's the Thing
If it all fails, I shall just pretend I never said any of this
Why can't you tell us? Are you working for MI5 now? And re your other post how is it forensic?
Because I've agreed to stay shtoom (as have others) - that's part of the price for joining the endeavour
It is the single most interesting project I have ever been engaged with, by some margin. It leads to hair-raising conversations in taxis across Majorca, where world changing stuff is casually discussed
So we need to ask a taxi driver then?
Not when they are self driving
HINT
Well if that is it I don't think that is far off. I was gobsmaked by what my new car can do. I can park it while not in the car and it self steers while doing so.. It brakes if it detects a possible collision in front of if I pull out into traffic. It corrects the steering (which is annoying). I can give it verbal commands, eg open the boot. Etc. I mean that isn't far off is it?
Take that and read across to......
GAH
I really can't say. It is bigger than that. Is all
I accept that this all sounds like delusional wank so I will shut up
Yes, probably best because it sounds like you've been entrusted with something huge.
Thanks. At least SOMEONE understands
Imagine if you were privy to a secret which could change your lifelong world of chartered accountancy forever, you’d be bursting to tell everyone
But you’ve sworn to keep it under wraps. Painful
Indeed. If there was a secret I wanted to keep I’d certainly entrust it to a travel journalist whose main hobbies include drinking and posting on a political message board.
I've just spent the weekend in Ibiza with a mad array of super intelligent people, from billionaire investors to maverick bohemian psychonauts to world famous real estate developers to UN policy wonks with too much money
They are ALL obsessed with AI. Everyone
AI-wise, we're near the Peak of Inflated Expectations right now. Soon, we'll be in the Trough of Disillusionment.
Others demur
"Elon Musk has warned that in the next two to three decades, artificial intelligence will change society so much that it will go beyond recognition. He also predicts that the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) is not far away, possibly only three to six years"
Elon Musk is a hype man, a phony of astral depth, a 20 foot glitter turd.
All true. But Musk is also someone who knows how to solve complex technical and industrial challenges to create useful and desirable products. That combination of hype and technical expertise is very rare and is what is behind the success of Tesla and SpaceX.
There's a really weird type of person who genuinely believes Musk is a fraud and devoid of true imagination: a charlatan. A lucky snake oil salesman. I've seen people on Twitter arguing that he is really quite stupid
It is bizarre. Has he made terrible errors? And encountered disasters? Of course he has, he's a risk taker. An entrepreneur. But the idea he is dim is sensationally dim in itself
I didn't say he's dim. I said he's a 20ft glitter turd. Glitter turds are really the opposite of dim. They are bright and alluring and very very shiny. And they are turds.
Bill Gates the Lesser (III not Jr) is a prime example IMHO.
Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk said "people should be embarrassed" after she was booed off court following her first-round defeat by Aryna Sabalenka at the French Open.
Kostyuk avoided shaking hands with second seed Sabalenka after the Belarusian's 6-3 6-2 win.
Belarus is an ally of Russia and allowed troops to use its territory to launch last year's invasion of Ukraine.
Sabalenka said Kostyuk "didn't deserve to leave the court that way".
Why didn't she shake Sabalenka's hand? It's not her fault what Belarus is doing.
It was performative on her part, to be sure, but deserving of being booed?
Unless Sabalenka is in some way culpable or supportive of this injustice, then yes. Refusing to shake someone's hand because their government has done something wrong (if this is in fact the case) merits a hearty boo. In that spirit, and with the risk I'll need to retract if Sabalenka has indeed been saying some upsetting things, I'll join in: boooo, Kostyuk. Boooo.
I thought you were in favour of the right to peaceful protest?
I've just spent the weekend in Ibiza with a mad array of super intelligent people, from billionaire investors to maverick bohemian psychonauts to world famous real estate developers to UN policy wonks with too much money
They are ALL obsessed with AI. Everyone
AI-wise, we're near the Peak of Inflated Expectations right now. Soon, we'll be in the Trough of Disillusionment.
Others demur
"Elon Musk has warned that in the next two to three decades, artificial intelligence will change society so much that it will go beyond recognition. He also predicts that the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) is not far away, possibly only three to six years"
The solution is probably to let him have more money and power, and stop interferring with his businesses I bet.
It is hard to place too much credibility in Elon Musk given the number of wrong predictions he has made to date and recent events has shown him to have wildly poor judgment.
it doesn't really matter whether you believe Musk or not
The fact is - as my experience in Ibiza revealed - people who are paid to think and make predictions about this stuff, or people who have so much money they can influence or benefit from this stuff, to people who are free thinking weirdos with massive Twitter followings, are all OBSESSED with AI
It was like being parachuted into my intellectual home. My kind of dudes. AI, AI, AI - then some more excellent wine - then back to AI
You haven't told us why they're obsessed with AI.
Because they all think it is about to transform human society in multiple ways. Some are excited and optimistic, some are excited and pessimistic. But they are all excited and obsessed
I admit I have a mix of 'whoa - cool.' and 'dear god, stop' when I see things like this being published :
"🧵🧠 We're witnessing incredible scientific progress in image & text reconstruction from fMRI nowadays. But what about reconstructing video from fMRI? Allow me to introduce our recent preprint: Mind-Video "
If all goes well, in about a year you will all learn what these people were doing in the Balearics because it will be in the news
Potentially it will be seriously headline news
Its the same thing people that do Davos every year. People with status getting a special glow from each other for being part of an exclusive, luxury event.
No, it really isn't. There were Davos types there - I don't deny it - but the purpose was much more exciting and forensic than just waffling away about ecology and trade
It's easy to mock you, and there's obviously an element of sour grapes, because I am sure it was far more glamorous than most other peoples' weekends. However, I must say it does all just sound a little sad. Anyway, glad you're there to report back to us, and that you're enjoying it.
I genuinely wish I could tell you the purpose of the gathering. It is the opposite of "sad". It is one of the most compelling, uplifting and intriguing endeavours I have ever encountered. It is absolutely extraordinary. A proper mind fuck. Off the dial
But I can't tell you for multiple reasons and so I will have to allow your opinions to go unchallenged. Hopefully some time in the next 6-18 months I will be able to say: Yeah, that was it, that's the Thing
If it all fails, I shall just pretend I never said any of this
Why can't you tell us? Are you working for MI5 now? And re your other post how is it forensic?
Because I've agreed to stay shtoom (as have others) - that's part of the price for joining the endeavour
It is the single most interesting project I have ever been engaged with, by some margin. It leads to hair-raising conversations in taxis across Majorca, where world changing stuff is casually discussed
So we need to ask a taxi driver then?
Not when they are self driving
HINT
Well if that is it I don't think that is far off. I was gobsmaked by what my new car can do. I can park it while not in the car and it self steers while doing so.. It brakes if it detects a possible collision in front of if I pull out into traffic. It corrects the steering (which is annoying). I can give it verbal commands, eg open the boot. Etc. I mean that isn't far off is it?
Take that and read across to......
GAH
I really can't say. It is bigger than that. Is all
I accept that this all sounds like delusional wank so I will shut up
Yes, probably best because it sounds like you've been entrusted with something huge.
Thanks. At least SOMEONE understands
Imagine if you were privy to a secret which could change your lifelong world of chartered accountancy forever, you’d be bursting to tell everyone
But you’ve sworn to keep it under wraps. Painful
These elite people let you wander round with a camera taking snaps of them?
If all goes well, in about a year you will all learn what these people were doing in the Balearics because it will be in the news
Potentially it will be seriously headline news
Its the same thing people that do Davos every year. People with status getting a special glow from each other for being part of an exclusive, luxury event.
No, it really isn't. There were Davos types there - I don't deny it - but the purpose was much more exciting and forensic than just waffling away about ecology and trade
It's easy to mock you, and there's obviously an element of sour grapes, because I am sure it was far more glamorous than most other peoples' weekends. However, I must say it does all just sound a little sad. Anyway, glad you're there to report back to us, and that you're enjoying it.
Oh I don't know, I nearly saw a fight break out between a ukulele band and the Punch and Judy act who were drowning each other out.
I went to a performance of Missa Solemnis. Not dissimilar to Leon's experience (and perhaps yours), as it's very loud, and more than a little bit mad.
The AfD are approaching second place in the German polls.
One thought that does occur to me about Starmer is pretty much every other soft left wing European party seems to be either on the defensive or actively imploding with its votes haemorrhaging off to other parties, as we see here with the SPD. Labour isn't.
Sure, it may have been lucky the obvious alternatives in the LDs and SNP decided to self-immolate in spectacular fashion. But it's still an interesting bucking of the general trend.
And it's not so long ago that Labour were part of it, as well.
Labour were in pole position as far as exploding left of centre organisations were concerned. I am old enough to remember December 2019.
I've just spent the weekend in Ibiza with a mad array of super intelligent people, from billionaire investors to maverick bohemian psychonauts to world famous real estate developers to UN policy wonks with too much money
They are ALL obsessed with AI. Everyone
What is a "psychonaut"?
My eyebrows were raised higher on the notion of "world famous" estate agents.
It sounds like the dinner party from Hell. Estate Agents, the drug addled, political SPADS, a playboy and a right-wing jobbing hack. Imagine the aroma of BS.
It wasn’t a dinner party. It was a weekend
At one point we all went to a secret music gig in an enchanted dell where you could have mind altering cacao drinks and gawp at the billlonaire heiresses
They don’t really look like they are enjoying themselves
"Leons travelogues will continue until morale improves!"
If all goes well, in about a year you will all learn what these people were doing in the Balearics because it will be in the news
Potentially it will be seriously headline news
Its the same thing people that do Davos every year. People with status getting a special glow from each other for being part of an exclusive, luxury event.
No, it really isn't. There were Davos types there - I don't deny it - but the purpose was much more exciting and forensic than just waffling away about ecology and trade
It's easy to mock you, and there's obviously an element of sour grapes, because I am sure it was far more glamorous than most other peoples' weekends. However, I must say it does all just sound a little sad. Anyway, glad you're there to report back to us, and that you're enjoying it.
I genuinely wish I could tell you the purpose of the gathering. It is the opposite of "sad". It is one of the most compelling, uplifting and intriguing endeavours I have ever encountered. It is absolutely extraordinary. A proper mind fuck. Off the dial
But I can't tell you for multiple reasons and so I will have to allow your opinions to go unchallenged. Hopefully some time in the next 6-18 months I will be able to say: Yeah, that was it, that's the Thing
If it all fails, I shall just pretend I never said any of this
Why can't you tell us? Are you working for MI5 now? And re your other post how is it forensic?
Because I've agreed to stay shtoom (as have others) - that's part of the price for joining the endeavour
It is the single most interesting project I have ever been engaged with, by some margin. It leads to hair-raising conversations in taxis across Majorca, where world changing stuff is casually discussed
So we need to ask a taxi driver then?
Not when they are self driving
HINT
Well if that is it I don't think that is far off. I was gobsmaked by what my new car can do. I can park it while not in the car and it self steers while doing so.. It brakes if it detects a possible collision in front of if I pull out into traffic. It corrects the steering (which is annoying). I can give it verbal commands, eg open the boot. Etc. I mean that isn't far off is it?
Take that and read across to......
GAH
I really can't say. It is bigger than that. Is all
I accept that this all sounds like delusional wank so I will shut up
Yes, probably best because it sounds like you've been entrusted with something huge.
Thanks. At least SOMEONE understands
Imagine if you were privy to a secret which could change your lifelong world of chartered accountancy forever, you’d be bursting to tell everyone
But you’ve sworn to keep it under wraps. Painful
These elite people let you wander round with a camera taking snaps of them?
I'm surprised.
Perhaps they're not up to scratch with the latest technology - cameras in mobile telephones and all that.
Extinction Rebellion accused police of using water cannon just 15 minutes after the start of the blockade - but police said they had asked the activists to leave and gave them a chance to do so before using the water cannon. The 1,579 people who refused to leave were then arrested.
Trump issues an urgent demand yesterday not to impeach Ken Paxton, which was read on the Floor by a Member before the vote, and virtually the entire Texas Republican House just ignored him.
I've just spent the weekend in Ibiza with a mad array of super intelligent people, from billionaire investors to maverick bohemian psychonauts to world famous real estate developers to UN policy wonks with too much money
They are ALL obsessed with AI. Everyone
What is a "psychonaut"?
My eyebrows were raised higher on the notion of "world famous" estate agents.
It sounds like the dinner party from Hell. Estate Agents, the drug addled, political SPADS, a playboy and a right-wing jobbing hack. Imagine the aroma of BS.
It wasn’t a dinner party. It was a weekend
At one point we all went to a secret music gig in an enchanted dell where you could have mind altering cacao drinks and gawp at the billlonaire heiresses
They don’t really look like they are enjoying themselves
That was the beginning when we all had to meditate. It was quite woowoo and dull tbh
But then the mood changed and the beat made everyone dance, yes even the sad middle aged men. And it was surprisingly enjoyable - and trippy
These concerts are secret and sell out in an hour. Word of mouth. Also ridiculously expensive
I was in Istanbul in January and there were high hopes after a sustained period of hyper-inflation and his pathetic response to the earthquake that Erdogan was finished. Oh well.
I've just spent the weekend in Ibiza with a mad array of super intelligent people, from billionaire investors to maverick bohemian psychonauts to world famous real estate developers to UN policy wonks with too much money
They are ALL obsessed with AI. Everyone
What is a "psychonaut"?
My eyebrows were raised higher on the notion of "world famous" estate agents.
It sounds like the dinner party from Hell. Estate Agents, the drug addled, political SPADS, a playboy and a right-wing jobbing hack. Imagine the aroma of BS.
It wasn’t a dinner party. It was a weekend
At one point we all went to a secret music gig in an enchanted dell where you could have mind altering cacao drinks and gawp at the billlonaire heiresses
They don’t really look like they are enjoying themselves
That was the beginning when we all had to meditate. It was quite woowoo and dull tbh
But then the mood changed and the beat made everyone dance, yes even the sad middle aged men. And it was surprisingly enjoyable - and trippy
These concerts are secret and sell out in an hour. Word of mouth. Also ridiculously expensive
I've just spent the weekend in Ibiza with a mad array of super intelligent people, from billionaire investors to maverick bohemian psychonauts to world famous real estate developers to UN policy wonks with too much money
They are ALL obsessed with AI. Everyone
AI-wise, we're near the Peak of Inflated Expectations right now. Soon, we'll be in the Trough of Disillusionment.
Others demur
"Elon Musk has warned that in the next two to three decades, artificial intelligence will change society so much that it will go beyond recognition. He also predicts that the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) is not far away, possibly only three to six years"
The solution is probably to let him have more money and power, and stop interferring with his businesses I bet.
It is hard to place too much credibility in Elon Musk given the number of wrong predictions he has made to date and recent events has shown him to have wildly poor judgment.
it doesn't really matter whether you believe Musk or not
The fact is - as my experience in Ibiza revealed - people who are paid to think and make predictions about this stuff, or people who have so much money they can influence or benefit from this stuff, to people who are free thinking weirdos with massive Twitter followings, are all OBSESSED with AI
It was like being parachuted into my intellectual home. My kind of dudes. AI, AI, AI - then some more excellent wine - then back to AI
You haven't told us why they're obsessed with AI.
Because they all think it is about to transform human society in multiple ways. Some are excited and optimistic, some are excited and pessimistic. But they are all excited and obsessed
I admit I have a mix of 'whoa - cool.' and 'dear god, stop' when I see things like this being published :
"🧵🧠 We're witnessing incredible scientific progress in image & text reconstruction from fMRI nowadays. But what about reconstructing video from fMRI? Allow me to introduce our recent preprint: Mind-Video "
Jeez. They are making those videos by scanning brains?!
If all goes well, in about a year you will all learn what these people were doing in the Balearics because it will be in the news
Potentially it will be seriously headline news
Its the same thing people that do Davos every year. People with status getting a special glow from each other for being part of an exclusive, luxury event.
No, it really isn't. There were Davos types there - I don't deny it - but the purpose was much more exciting and forensic than just waffling away about ecology and trade
It's easy to mock you, and there's obviously an element of sour grapes, because I am sure it was far more glamorous than most other peoples' weekends. However, I must say it does all just sound a little sad. Anyway, glad you're there to report back to us, and that you're enjoying it.
I genuinely wish I could tell you the purpose of the gathering. It is the opposite of "sad". It is one of the most compelling, uplifting and intriguing endeavours I have ever encountered. It is absolutely extraordinary. A proper mind fuck. Off the dial
But I can't tell you for multiple reasons and so I will have to allow your opinions to go unchallenged. Hopefully some time in the next 6-18 months I will be able to say: Yeah, that was it, that's the Thing
If it all fails, I shall just pretend I never said any of this
Why can't you tell us? Are you working for MI5 now? And re your other post how is it forensic?
Because I've agreed to stay shtoom (as have others) - that's part of the price for joining the endeavour
It is the single most interesting project I have ever been engaged with, by some margin. It leads to hair-raising conversations in taxis across Majorca, where world changing stuff is casually discussed
So we need to ask a taxi driver then?
Not when they are self driving
HINT
Well if that is it I don't think that is far off. I was gobsmaked by what my new car can do. I can park it while not in the car and it self steers while doing so.. It brakes if it detects a possible collision in front of if I pull out into traffic. It corrects the steering (which is annoying). I can give it verbal commands, eg open the boot. Etc. I mean that isn't far off is it?
Take that and read across to......
GAH
I really can't say. It is bigger than that. Is all
I accept that this all sounds like delusional wank so I will shut up
Yes, probably best because it sounds like you've been entrusted with something huge.
Thanks. At least SOMEONE understands
Imagine if you were privy to a secret which could change your lifelong world of chartered accountancy forever, you’d be bursting to tell everyone
But you’ve sworn to keep it under wraps. Painful
Indeed. If there was a secret I wanted to keep I’d certainly entrust it to a travel journalist whose main hobbies include drinking and posting on a political message board.
If all goes well, in about a year you will all learn what these people were doing in the Balearics because it will be in the news
Potentially it will be seriously headline news
Its the same thing people that do Davos every year. People with status getting a special glow from each other for being part of an exclusive, luxury event.
No, it really isn't. There were Davos types there - I don't deny it - but the purpose was much more exciting and forensic than just waffling away about ecology and trade
It's easy to mock you, and there's obviously an element of sour grapes, because I am sure it was far more glamorous than most other peoples' weekends. However, I must say it does all just sound a little sad. Anyway, glad you're there to report back to us, and that you're enjoying it.
Oh I don't know, I nearly saw a fight break out between a ukulele band and the Punch and Judy act who were drowning each other out.
Do you mean the fight happened and you nearly saw it? Or no fight actually happened, it just got close?
I've just spent the weekend in Ibiza with a mad array of super intelligent people, from billionaire investors to maverick bohemian psychonauts to world famous real estate developers to UN policy wonks with too much money
They are ALL obsessed with AI. Everyone
AI-wise, we're near the Peak of Inflated Expectations right now. Soon, we'll be in the Trough of Disillusionment.
Others demur
"Elon Musk has warned that in the next two to three decades, artificial intelligence will change society so much that it will go beyond recognition. He also predicts that the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) is not far away, possibly only three to six years"
The solution is probably to let him have more money and power, and stop interferring with his businesses I bet.
It is hard to place too much credibility in Elon Musk given the number of wrong predictions he has made to date and recent events has shown him to have wildly poor judgment.
it doesn't really matter whether you believe Musk or not
The fact is - as my experience in Ibiza revealed - people who are paid to think and make predictions about this stuff, or people who have so much money they can influence or benefit from this stuff, to people who are free thinking weirdos with massive Twitter followings, are all OBSESSED with AI
It was like being parachuted into my intellectual home. My kind of dudes. AI, AI, AI - then some more excellent wine - then back to AI
You haven't told us why they're obsessed with AI.
Because they all think it is about to transform human society in multiple ways. Some are excited and optimistic, some are excited and pessimistic. But they are all excited and obsessed
I admit I have a mix of 'whoa - cool.' and 'dear god, stop' when I see things like this being published :
"🧵🧠 We're witnessing incredible scientific progress in image & text reconstruction from fMRI nowadays. But what about reconstructing video from fMRI? Allow me to introduce our recent preprint: Mind-Video "
Jeez. They are making those videos by scanning brains?!
Yeah - train the model for 24hrs before hand on the person in question. Then reconstruct away to their hearts content 'live' from the signals in their visual cortex from the fMRI scanner.
Not sure how much training they'll need to get a more universal model. Or if we'll find out that everyone is actually unique (which might be more interesting).
I've just spent the weekend in Ibiza with a mad array of super intelligent people, from billionaire investors to maverick bohemian psychonauts to world famous real estate developers to UN policy wonks with too much money
They are ALL obsessed with AI. Everyone
AI-wise, we're near the Peak of Inflated Expectations right now. Soon, we'll be in the Trough of Disillusionment.
Others demur
"Elon Musk has warned that in the next two to three decades, artificial intelligence will change society so much that it will go beyond recognition. He also predicts that the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) is not far away, possibly only three to six years"
The solution is probably to let him have more money and power, and stop interferring with his businesses I bet.
It is hard to place too much credibility in Elon Musk given the number of wrong predictions he has made to date and recent events has shown him to have wildly poor judgment.
it doesn't really matter whether you believe Musk or not
The fact is - as my experience in Ibiza revealed - people who are paid to think and make predictions about this stuff, or people who have so much money they can influence or benefit from this stuff, to people who are free thinking weirdos with massive Twitter followings, are all OBSESSED with AI
It was like being parachuted into my intellectual home. My kind of dudes. AI, AI, AI - then some more excellent wine - then back to AI
You haven't told us why they're obsessed with AI.
Because they all think it is about to transform human society in multiple ways. Some are excited and optimistic, some are excited and pessimistic. But they are all excited and obsessed
I admit I have a mix of 'whoa - cool.' and 'dear god, stop' when I see things like this being published :
"🧵🧠 We're witnessing incredible scientific progress in image & text reconstruction from fMRI nowadays. But what about reconstructing video from fMRI? Allow me to introduce our recent preprint: Mind-Video "
Jeez. They are making those videos by scanning brains?!
Yeah - train the model for 24hrs before hand on the person in question. Then reconstruct away to their hearts content 'live' from the signals in their visual cortex from the fMRI scanner.
Not sure how much training they'll need to get a more universal model. Or if we'll find out that everyone is actually unique (which might be more interesting).
This is a plot device - IIRC - of “Quatermass and the Pit” - scanning brains and turning thoughts into images and videos
At the time I watched it, this was one of the most far fetched elements in a very speculative movie. Yet now: here it is
We are living at an incredible moment when sci-fi becomes real in multiple ways
If all goes well, in about a year you will all learn what these people were doing in the Balearics because it will be in the news
Potentially it will be seriously headline news
Its the same thing people that do Davos every year. People with status getting a special glow from each other for being part of an exclusive, luxury event.
No, it really isn't. There were Davos types there - I don't deny it - but the purpose was much more exciting and forensic than just waffling away about ecology and trade
It's easy to mock you, and there's obviously an element of sour grapes, because I am sure it was far more glamorous than most other peoples' weekends. However, I must say it does all just sound a little sad. Anyway, glad you're there to report back to us, and that you're enjoying it.
I genuinely wish I could tell you the purpose of the gathering. It is the opposite of "sad". It is one of the most compelling, uplifting and intriguing endeavours I have ever encountered. It is absolutely extraordinary. A proper mind fuck. Off the dial
But I can't tell you for multiple reasons and so I will have to allow your opinions to go unchallenged. Hopefully some time in the next 6-18 months I will be able to say: Yeah, that was it, that's the Thing
If it all fails, I shall just pretend I never said any of this
Why can't you tell us? Are you working for MI5 now? And re your other post how is it forensic?
Because I've agreed to stay shtoom (as have others) - that's part of the price for joining the endeavour
It is the single most interesting project I have ever been engaged with, by some margin. It leads to hair-raising conversations in taxis across Majorca, where world changing stuff is casually discussed
So we need to ask a taxi driver then?
Not when they are self driving
HINT
Well if that is it I don't think that is far off. I was gobsmaked by what my new car can do. I can park it while not in the car and it self steers while doing so.. It brakes if it detects a possible collision in front of if I pull out into traffic. It corrects the steering (which is annoying). I can give it verbal commands, eg open the boot. Etc. I mean that isn't far off is it?
Take that and read across to......
GAH
I really can't say. It is bigger than that. Is all
I accept that this all sounds like delusional wank so I will shut up
Yes, probably best because it sounds like you've been entrusted with something huge.
Thanks. At least SOMEONE understands
Imagine if you were privy to a secret which could change your lifelong world of chartered accountancy forever, you’d be bursting to tell everyone
But you’ve sworn to keep it under wraps. Painful
These elite people let you wander round with a camera taking snaps of them?
I'm surprised.
Perhaps they're not up to scratch with the latest technology - cameras in mobile telephones and all that.
I'm not doubting Leon's word, it's just that in my limited experience people of the type he describes tend to be a bit camera-shy, especially when at public gatherings.
The meditation bit sounds a bit flaky though. Begins to sound like a Scientology induction meeting.
Let's remember that Rishi was in Johnson's Cabinet from the beginning until vanishingly close to the end.
Given that track record, what's the evidence that he can notice lack of integrity, unprofessionalism or unaccountability, let alone be able to do anything about them?
He was happy at both Goldman and TCIF. That speaks volumes about his integrity
What? Happy *all* the time?
Probably grumpy once a year, and I’d imagine he was sleepy quite a lot as well
I've just spent the weekend in Ibiza with a mad array of super intelligent people, from billionaire investors to maverick bohemian psychonauts to world famous real estate developers to UN policy wonks with too much money
They are ALL obsessed with AI. Everyone
AI-wise, we're near the Peak of Inflated Expectations right now. Soon, we'll be in the Trough of Disillusionment.
Others demur
"Elon Musk has warned that in the next two to three decades, artificial intelligence will change society so much that it will go beyond recognition. He also predicts that the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) is not far away, possibly only three to six years"
The solution is probably to let him have more money and power, and stop interferring with his businesses I bet.
It is hard to place too much credibility in Elon Musk given the number of wrong predictions he has made to date and recent events has shown him to have wildly poor judgment.
it doesn't really matter whether you believe Musk or not
The fact is - as my experience in Ibiza revealed - people who are paid to think and make predictions about this stuff, or people who have so much money they can influence or benefit from this stuff, to people who are free thinking weirdos with massive Twitter followings, are all OBSESSED with AI
It was like being parachuted into my intellectual home. My kind of dudes. AI, AI, AI - then some more excellent wine - then back to AI
You give far too much credibility to people with status. Most of them just repeat what they hear from each other until they fall for the human bias to utterly believe something you hear from three sources you trust.
This is unfortunately true. Our Blessed Author Of Many Names believes things that rich high people tell him at parties. Which is worrying.
I've just spent the weekend in Ibiza with a mad array of super intelligent people, from billionaire investors to maverick bohemian psychonauts to world famous real estate developers to UN policy wonks with too much money
They are ALL obsessed with AI. Everyone
AI-wise, we're near the Peak of Inflated Expectations right now. Soon, we'll be in the Trough of Disillusionment.
Others demur
"Elon Musk has warned that in the next two to three decades, artificial intelligence will change society so much that it will go beyond recognition. He also predicts that the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) is not far away, possibly only three to six years"
The solution is probably to let him have more money and power, and stop interferring with his businesses I bet.
It is hard to place too much credibility in Elon Musk given the number of wrong predictions he has made to date and recent events has shown him to have wildly poor judgment.
it doesn't really matter whether you believe Musk or not
The fact is - as my experience in Ibiza revealed - people who are paid to think and make predictions about this stuff, or people who have so much money they can influence or benefit from this stuff, to people who are free thinking weirdos with massive Twitter followings, are all OBSESSED with AI
It was like being parachuted into my intellectual home. My kind of dudes. AI, AI, AI - then some more excellent wine - then back to AI
You give far too much credibility to people with status. Most of them just repeat what they hear from each other until they fall for the human bias to utterly believe something you hear from three sources you trust.
This is unfortunately true. Our Blessed Author Of Many Names believes things that rich high people tell him at parties. Which is worrying.
If anyone thought the Monaco GP was boring, there now follows three hours of American cars turning only left.
I thought with American cars, the correct procedure was, on encountering a corner -
1) Stop 2) Abandon the car 3) Walk round the corner 4) Find a car dealer.
Manual gear change surely????
If you are in one of those science fiction movies where American cars go round corners, and you are high on nitrous, then you change up to 37th gear in the process...
I've just spent the weekend in Ibiza with a mad array of super intelligent people, from billionaire investors to maverick bohemian psychonauts to world famous real estate developers to UN policy wonks with too much money
They are ALL obsessed with AI. Everyone
AI-wise, we're near the Peak of Inflated Expectations right now. Soon, we'll be in the Trough of Disillusionment.
Others demur
"Elon Musk has warned that in the next two to three decades, artificial intelligence will change society so much that it will go beyond recognition. He also predicts that the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) is not far away, possibly only three to six years"
The solution is probably to let him have more money and power, and stop interferring with his businesses I bet.
It is hard to place too much credibility in Elon Musk given the number of wrong predictions he has made to date and recent events has shown him to have wildly poor judgment.
it doesn't really matter whether you believe Musk or not
The fact is - as my experience in Ibiza revealed - people who are paid to think and make predictions about this stuff, or people who have so much money they can influence or benefit from this stuff, to people who are free thinking weirdos with massive Twitter followings, are all OBSESSED with AI
It was like being parachuted into my intellectual home. My kind of dudes. AI, AI, AI - then some more excellent wine - then back to AI
You haven't told us why they're obsessed with AI.
Because they all think it is about to transform human society in multiple ways. Some are excited and optimistic, some are excited and pessimistic. But they are all excited and obsessed
I admit I have a mix of 'whoa - cool.' and 'dear god, stop' when I see things like this being published :
"🧵🧠 We're witnessing incredible scientific progress in image & text reconstruction from fMRI nowadays. But what about reconstructing video from fMRI? Allow me to introduce our recent preprint: Mind-Video "
Jeez. They are making those videos by scanning brains?!
Yeah - train the model for 24hrs before hand on the person in question. Then reconstruct away to their hearts content 'live' from the signals in their visual cortex from the fMRI scanner.
Not sure how much training they'll need to get a more universal model. Or if we'll find out that everyone is actually unique (which might be more interesting).
This is a plot device - IIRC - of “Quatermass and the Pit” - scanning brains and turning thoughts into images and videos
At the time I watched it, this was one of the most far fetched elements in a very speculative movie. Yet now: here it is
We are living at an incredible moment when sci-fi becomes real in multiple ways
If you've not seen it there's a 90s film by Wim Wenders that explores a lot of the issues (and takes a rather darker turn towards the end).
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/spain/ibiza/clubbing-days-were-over-made-exception-for-ibiza/
36% counted, Erdogan 58% KK 42 although strangely this is only on the results site and not being reported on TV yet.
And in answer to your question I don't think anyone should be expecting Erdogan to lose, currently 1.06 on Betfair.
I've warned all my kids to be nice to the Nespresso machine, because in the future the machines will remember who cleaned and respected them, and those who cursed them.
I don't want to be on the wrong side of that divide.
One complication is that Putin now has less troops than before to support a new regime in Belarus.
He's also a former DPP, so even more integrity than a typical lawyer.
Labour faces calls to return £1.5m donation from major backer of Just Stop Oil
Keir Starmer continues to take money from Dale Vince, founder of Ecotricity, despite UK entering the fifth week of disruption
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/05/28/labour-donation-dale-vince-just-stop-oil-15m/ (£££)
Basically, Labour is taking money from a guy who owns a lot of wind farms.
There were people at either end with more extreme positions, ie It is already here, or It will never happen
Leeds win.
If the Tories could arrange that please, I'd consider voting for them (and then decide not to).
But I can't tell you for multiple reasons and so I will have to allow your opinions to go unchallenged. Hopefully some time in the next 6-18 months I will be able to say: Yeah, that was it, that's the Thing
If it all fails, I shall just pretend I never said any of this
It is the single most interesting project I have ever been engaged with, by some margin. It leads to hair-raising conversations in taxis across Majorca, where world changing stuff is casually discussed
HINT
I have no idea what they might have been getting up to...
They have figured out that coming 4/5 and qualifying for Europe offers the highest return on capital (especially when combined with effective scouting and talent spotting in the lower leagues). The alternative is trying to outspend someone like Man City - with richer owners who don’t care about financial returns - that’s a fool’s errand
GAH
I really can't say. It is bigger than that. Is all
I accept that this all sounds like delusional wank so I will shut up
VC is people trying to find the next Big Thing with their own money. Which they risk.
And yet I've had people trying to claim that VC was responsible for 2008. Or is, what is actually chop shop version of hedge funds.
Sure, it may have been lucky the obvious alternatives in the LDs and SNP decided to self-immolate in spectacular fashion. But it's still an interesting bucking of the general trend.
And it's not so long ago that Labour were part of it, as well.
I recall after 2008, some banks tried to lobby Washington to basically freeze individuals out of VC - they were upset that VC investors were offering people better terms to invest, when they (the banks) desperately needed new markets....
https://twitter.com/retrorailtours/status/1662738260139950080?t=Yf384ntpwLX3RtiBKgvh9w&s=19
A manually driven Hoover beats a self driving car!
Imagine if you were privy to a secret which could change your lifelong world of chartered accountancy forever, you’d be bursting to tell everyone
But you’ve sworn to keep it under wraps. Painful
Not sure where the connection with the Tories comes from though. Seems to me the malaise in the Police Force goes back more than thirteen years and has structural origins that appear to be beyond all Parties.
https://twitter.com/ZijiaoC/status/1660470518569639937
"🧵🧠 We're witnessing incredible scientific progress in image & text reconstruction from fMRI nowadays. But what about reconstructing video from fMRI? Allow me to introduce our recent preprint: Mind-Video "
I'm surprised.
Not dissimilar to Leon's experience (and perhaps yours), as it's very loud, and more than a little bit mad.
Not all that often performed these days.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65735289
Extinction Rebellion accused police of using water cannon just 15 minutes after the start of the blockade - but police said they had asked the activists to leave and gave them a chance to do so before using the water cannon.
The 1,579 people who refused to leave were then arrested.
Trump issues an urgent demand yesterday not to impeach Ken Paxton, which was read on the Floor by a Member before the vote, and virtually the entire Texas Republican House just ignored him.
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1662847462476750850
All I’m saying is, I’ll think very carefully, next time I go to the ballot box.
Lesson learnt.
But then the mood changed and the beat made everyone dance, yes even the sad middle aged men. And it was surprisingly enjoyable - and trippy
These concerts are secret and sell out in an hour. Word of mouth. Also ridiculously expensive
I was in Istanbul in January and there were high hopes after a sustained period of hyper-inflation and his pathetic response to the earthquake that Erdogan was finished. Oh well.
1) Stop
2) Abandon the car
3) Walk round the corner
4) Find a car dealer.
Not sure how much training they'll need to get a more universal model. Or if we'll find out that everyone is actually unique (which might be more interesting).
But maybe I just need to get out a bit more...
At the time I watched it, this was one of the most far fetched elements in a very speculative movie. Yet now: here it is
We are living at an incredible moment when sci-fi becomes real in multiple ways
The meditation bit sounds a bit flaky though. Begins to sound like a Scientology induction meeting.
Boris over-promised and never delivered.
Rishi over-promises and under-delievers.
Rishi was acceptable to Boris.
∴ Rishi is merely Boris-lite and somewhat less rubbish. Still no prize....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Until_the_End_of_the_World