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)

This talk of the Replication Crisis is somewhat overblown and outdated. There are some serious problems, but science has faced the matter and practice has improved. We look for publication bias in sy… (View Post)

Yeah, but that’s bollocks. LLMs generate text. That text might seem to indicate all sorts of things, but it’s just generated text. That’s the key point about the Anthropic paper: they can actually ma… (View Post)