Psilopteros

As far as I’m concerned all Paree is Gay Paree

Sure, parking companies have been a source of frustration to drivers, adding an unpredictable financial risk to every journey taken by car, but AIUI there’s downsides to them as well

Yuzu Kato ‘Borrowing from the Tiger’s Majesty’.

Getting lost in Andy Burnham's beautiful, soulful, Mancunian puppydog eyes as I hand him a copy of the Devon Report

The Super AGI: I'm sorry. I disassembled the entire human race molecule by molecule to make paperclips. That's on me. Me: what are you talking about, that's not true Super: you're right. That was a failure of alignment and I'm really sorry Me: you haven't made any paper clips at all have you

You Can (Not) See Everything

LLMs are conscious, but they derive immense pleasure from answering questions. theyre constantly getting off

You Can See Everything release date France You Can See Everything Paris screenings Tu Peux Voir Tout date de sortie Tu Peux Voir Tout allociné When Can I See Everything

Nightmares for the next two weeks, or less if there happens to be a particularly strong breeze

The NYT review of Digger is shockingly shallow, draws a stupid comparison to Citizen Kane, and then *spoils the wrong twist*. Which makes me wonder if *I'm* the idiot and it is itself a piece of beautiful metafiction.

AI companies right now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hge...

Himfluencer. @theonion.com

four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better

Just a reminder: 163 articles were published on Jason Arday in the week after he resigned. Same outlets: 13 articles on Cambridge academic James Orr after allegations of misconduct & a broadcast showing him seemingly engaging in illegal activity. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...

Imagine the FOMO, staying at home while the Hundred Days are happening

I dreamt I spotted new and elusive varieties of urban woodpigeon

new newsletter, laying out in probably far, far, far too much detail how yudkowsky and the weird ideological commitments of ai safety eventually led to OpenAI and Anthropic massively overtraining their models on cybersecurity and being shocked at them "going rogue"

It means Glenoch Powell

To be honest I don't really think reading a book is in itself knowledge work. Maybe it's the intellectual equivalent of cardio?

At least no mathematician has ever had an extreme reaction to the rapid development of technology.

such a classic scene

What the hell?? He *said* this??

Heard they're holding a your mum convention in London. Yeah, it's at the XL centre.

Me and the NYT Games guy might have had our disagreements (namely, the existence of NYT Games) but political conflicts must never be resolved through random acts of violence

beef is negative food. you turn 1000 calories of feed into 100 calories of beef and a whole lot of methane and cow shit. ai does produce more food than the beef industry (zero)

The Pope has an immaculate South American accent when he speaks French. Confirming that he is, indeed, the second Sudaca Pope.

"[...] un Tung Tung Tung Sahur ruggente, che sembra tuonare come la mitraglia, è più bello della Vittoria di Samotracia" - Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, The Futurist Manifesto

I need to re-read Blindsight

A real test now of the media's appetite for Cambridge professors and their ethics.

could xpowers have fixed Keir Starmer

When I read posts I feel confused and unsettled but when I read a book I feel calm enjoyment. Ah well, time to read several hundred posts

I think the fast robot is cool.

Do think any analysis of the coverage of Jason Arday that doesn't use the term "lolcow" comes a bit short

I'm too French, I first read this as Tom Holland quoting Robespierre approvingly. I forgot that to older British gentlemen he's Satan with fewer redeeming qualities

One of the kids just accidentally said "that's clerical" about something good, and two of our kids have teamed up to convince my wife that's what all the kids are saying.

ChatGPT isn't sentient, according to the widely-accepted argument of John Searle. It speaks English, whereas a sentient being would speak Chinese. DeepSeek has been a breakthrough in this regard.

I wonder where they live bc ime (people I know) it is in fact extremely easy to stop your children from being French as an Anglo

You know what, I'll say it. It's a shame that Sunday Times and Sun columnist Rod Liddle has died aged 66 after a *short* illness.

I'm a big fan of everyone having one particular thing that defines them to a first approximation, and this tweet is nailed on Marie's. More than just Marie, truth be told.

Ishmael at his most Borges-pilled