Early in the pandemic, maybe Feb 20?, the head of WHO said that governments are going to make mistakes, it is inevitable when dealing with a novel global public health crisis. It is not a situation i… (View Post)

4% is close to the number of people who just accidentally click on the wrong button. (View Post)

There is very low trust in public discourse in part because some people push lies and conspiracy theories. After Southport, someone just invented the claim that the attacker was a Muslim asylum seeke… (View Post)

When I first started working in AI, which was 1999, we deliberately didn’t call it AI because the term had been so overhyped previously and disappointed. We talked about “decision support systems” in… (View Post)

Thank God that JD Vance and Donald Trump aren’t like that. We can be confident that they aren’t vindictively blackballing people who pointed out their dishonesty. (View Post)