The conversations are always going past each other because the concerns are fundamentally different.
The latter group is less concerned about the utility of these tools and far more concerned with a public who can't see the AI companies are just building spicy, fraudulent SaaS platforms.
Re: the current moment
Perhaps a big disconnect comes from the gap between "people who can see through the hype and are assessing utility in a post-hype environment" and "people who know how dangerous the hype is precisely because being able to see through it is actually pretty rare in humans"
This reads like it's been generated from an LLM. There are dozens of repetitive elements saying basically the same thing, with random interludes from different people in different areas of work that don't form a cohesive story.
... almost like in Red Alert 3, from what I can glean from the article.
It's so tiring, all the bullshit
There was a time when the president inspired pride instead of exhaustion. I miss that more than I can say.
は is never in a subordinate clause, right? i've never seen this said explicitly but i feel like that's been the case
if Claimant groups hadn't pursued their case at the Waitangi tribunal, no one would now know what the #CoC was up to. WT case forced the Crown to release the docs.
what utter muthafuckas. Goldsmith is so dangerous 🤡
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In a time where most games bombard players with heaps of excess information, one indie game dared to ask "What if knowing 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 actually made the game more fun to play and actually explore?"
That game is Angeline Era - and it's easily one of 2025's best games.
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What Aotearoa wants in a crisis is a bit less Chris and a bit more more Christ*.
* the socialist anti-authority one, not the "King's English" one.
Can the media just stop pretending that the public think Nats are doing a great job handing the fuel crisis now? Apparently what New Zealand likes in a crisis is a bit of socialism actually #NZPol
National losing in yet another poll
1News Verian Poll
#NZPol 1/2
Media stop pretending Nats are acing the crisis challenge
Labour: 37% ⬆️5%
National: 30% ⬇️4%
Greens: ↔️11%
NZ First: ↔️10%
ACT: 7% ⬇️2%
Te Pāti Māori: ↔️2%
PPM
Hipkins: 19% ⬇️1%
Luxon: 16% ⬇️4%
Peters: 12% ⬆️2%
Swarbrick: 6% ⬆️1%
Seymour: ↔️4%
To be honest, it's much like patriarchal capitalism meeting critique: at the interface of our current system (which naive computationalism, formal realism, etc, are in science) some proponents cannot even grasp the critique.
This one is particularly gross. Hey, let's co-opt the name of a woman scientist whose work was stolen by men who then went on to win a Nobel Prize without her. 👩🏻🔬
I have feelings I can't put into words about OpenAI's new model for drug discovery being called Rosalind.
If I polled at 16 percent on Sunday night and knew the following morning I'd be grilled about it by Tova and John Campbell, I'd just quit. No hesitation
Verian poll tonight puts the left ahead 🤞✌️
This is the issue with theoretical work these days. Data isn't collected as means unto itself unless we've lost the point of experiment & observation. Without explicit theory to house data it's meaningless. Duhem-Quine, underdetermination of theory of by data is lost on people.
olivia.science/theory
If we want to understand scientifically, we need theory. Data can license many things, but it's useless and meaningless on its own and any statement that says "if we want understanding, then we must collect data" is prima facie false. If we want understanding, we need theory.
Let’s see what happens after the Budget
With Luxon on 16% Preferred PM but Hipkins being on 19% the voters really showing they don't want Chris in charge
I think the first party to De-Chris wins the election by a mile.
New media release published on Scoop Parliament: Government Rams Through Sweeping Changes To Te Tiriti In Legislation
very guardrailed, such a world model, much internality
Yes, since putting guardrails on the outside of the model didn't work, they pivoted to saying that the guardrails are inside the model. They... definitely are not.
An adult female kākāpō feeding a chick in a nest. Credit: Andrew Digby
#kakapo Esperance with chick Elsie-A2-2026 on Whenua Hou. At a month old the chicks start to get coloured feathers and males will weigh around 1kg - not far off the mother's weight. But she's still less than halfway through raising them in the nest! #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds #wildlife
I wish people would stop showing the rat-eaten picture of Te Tiriti. There are perfectly acceptable images of it that were taken before it was destroyed.
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I love this so much.
Barack Obama sat down with Mayor Zohran Mamdani in a Bronx child care center, reading “Alone and Together,” a book about connection, community, and belonging to preschoolers.
Sidebar: Not sure these little-ones knew who Obama was 😂
What a surprise that the RNZ commentator telling women to just smile so men can get laid is a transphobe.
No one cares about the safety and wellbeing of women less than transphobes.
