Phil Waymouth

Phil Waymouth

@phil.waymouth.name

Head of Tech Strategy @ Odyssey Systems https://odyssey.ml / Founder @ Frontier Impact https://frontierimpact.io / ex-@microsoft.com's Office of the CTO / @xbox.com platform developer / @rare.co.uk graphics guy https://waymouth.name/

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To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution

Grade A design shithousery from Disney (you can't see it, but the *required* email address box in the 2nd picture is disabled, so you literally can't start a chat about cancelling) 😂

I laughed out loud at this. My first job was building PCs in a local shop and sometimes you just got a wrong’un ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

one thing that's very funny about building a new pc is that there is 100% a secret 1d100 "how fucking cursed is this pc" roll that happens whose result is hidden, and can literally never be changed, even if you literally swap out every part Ship of Theseus style, it will ALWAYS be that cursed.

Cracking rugby match. Enormously proud of the England team after a difficult few weeks. #fraveng #sixnations

Gavan Reilly@gavreilly.com

46 points is the highest losing score (in 80 minutes) in international Test history.

Time to go Through the Looking-Glass… “The name of the song is called 'Haddocks' Eyes' [..] The name really is 'The Aged Aged Man' [..] The song is called 'Ways And Means' [..] The song really is 'A-sitting On A Gate'”

Ted Underwood@tedunderwood.com

Our conversation about "anthropomorphizing models" could really use a bit of the flexibility that literary theorists bring to the question of personification. E.g., is the character represented in an autobiography the same as the physical body of the author?

Phil Waymouth reposted

We installed a simple device that conveys sound from underwater to above ground, and vice versa. Now the wolves gather at the shore to howl to the whales, and the whales sing back to the wolves

Phil Waymouth reposted

[1/9] Excited to share our new paper "A Pragmatic View of AI Personhood" published today. We feel this topic is timely, and rapidly growing in importance as AI becomes agentic, as AI agents integrate further into the economy, and as more and more users encounter AI.

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