Ironically there seems to be jobs for philosophers in AI wrangling. Claude have a philosopher, Amanda Askell, who does work on its constution. Purely anecdotally I've notice that the AI psychosi… (View Post)

I think furlough helped. It seemed to me to be very generous. If it didn't it's more depressing to me as certainly in Edinburgh people were scarily obedient. I was working throughout, and I… (View Post)

It's important to remember that locking the population in their houses for 23 hours a day was an absolutely crackers thing for any modern government to be doing. Isn't it? (View Post)

I always enjoy a Cyclefree thread. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!! (View Post)

We won't be raising PIP any time soon. More likely we'll be institutionalising people tbh. I'm a bit smoothbrain on this, I don't know too much about it as the people I work with … (View Post)