Wherein cunning but in craft? Wherein crafty but in villainy? Wherein villainous but in all things? Wherein worthy but in nothing?
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I do sometimes feel that most of human politics right now is the equivalent of the citizens of Pompeii arguing in the autumn of AD79 about who was going to win the next chariot championship.
Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse.
We gave it 19 gene therapy vectors in a spreadsheet, a mouse model of epilepsy, access to a motorize surgery rig with cameras and one goal: reduce seizures.
It picked the drug. It picked the brain region. It derived the coordinates from three papers. Then it drove the stereotaxic arms into the brain and injected 250 nanolitres while watching the entry site through the rig camera for bleeding.
A licensed vet gated every irreversible step and held a physical kill switch to stop the AI agent.
Thread on what it decided, what it saw, and the moment it refused to let me override it.
[Writing this on the spot out of excitement, but I've been 18hrs in front of my laptop coding and coordinating this, so keeping it brief and descriptive, more cohesive thoughts on this soon...]
This is a v depressing sentencing appeal. Man with 162 previous offences including 55 for thefts burgles a Wagamama. Max sentence 10 years. An unelected quango nonetheless stipulates a guideline sentence of 6 months, or 12 months if “top of range”. Judge decides scale of previous offences means he should sentence outside the guideline. Appeal court reverses him. 15 months reduces to 7.
I find this incredible. The Appeal Court actually says he is bound to offend again, but essentially says: what’s the point of keeping him inside? (see penultimate para). I’d have thought that was pretty obvious. For the Appeal Court to say a judge couldn’t properly exceed the guideline in a case like this seems extraordinary.
Amazing exercise in point-missing whataboutery. A classic of its genre.
1/ The man most likely to rape a White British woman isn't on a small boat or an immigrant. He's her partner or her ex.
The graph by @TheEconomist is doing rounds, and @RestoreBritain , @reformparty_uk and the rest of the circus of the self-appointed protectors of White British women think that it proves their made up point: that White British women's biggest danger is immigrant men.
Well, data and facts say a different story, a story that the circus of the self-appointed protectors of White British women don't want normal people to know.
Here's the data. 🧵
Masterfully retaining his rank as the world’s most tiresome pedant, if he’s going to correct others on Simon Heffer’s peerage, @oliverkamm might like to note that he was in fact ennobled as Lord Blackwater.
Another 30 second passage through Heathrow immigration - for UK, US, EU, Swiss, CANZAUS, Japanese and S Korean citizens alike. I will never understand why the militant rejoiners blame our Government for the chaos at many Continental airports rather than theirs.
Despite being a peaceable soul, every time I pass the dynamited remains of Didcot power station (about 3 times a week), I have the fairly strong feeling we should hang the politicians who authorised it. Mad.
Brilliant piece by @afneil. Like @EdConwaySky’s recent article for the New Statesman, it gets to the heart of Britain’s growing strategic vulnerability.
The truth is that ministers are reluctant to promote the Be Ready campaign because doing so means confronting the consequences of decades of terrible political decisions based on wildly optimistic assumptions about international stability.
Nowhere is this failure of statecraft more apparent than in energy and defence policy. Prematurely phasing out coal, restricting domestic oil and gas production (onshore and offshore), placing too much faith in weather-dependent renewables, and increasing our reliance on China.
We are a maritime nation that has hollowed out its navy and forgotten the basic principles of British strategy that served the basis of our prosperity and security.
This is not just a Labour problem. It impacts all parties, including Reform. Successive governments have made Britain more vulnerable to the very disruptions they are now asking households to prepare for.
I would very much suggest listening to Gates on this. He may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but he is a visionary who, unlike the owner of this site, saves lives. He is also calm and clear thinking. The fact he sounds genuinely scared about the impact of AI on public safety in the immediate future tells you why HMG is asking us to stockpile.
AI is the most profound technology I’ve seen, both in its ability to help people and to disrupt their lives. I’m optimistic about the good it can do, but we need to take its risks seriously. b-gat.es/4zLk2T3
Just been to the lovely Hotel Grande Bretagne in Athens. The most lavish hotels in many other cities are named after places or people connected to the UK - the Bristols of Paris and Vienna for example. Let’s hope that to future generations (if there are any) these aren’t essentially “Hotel Carthage”.
Food for Crow
Court of Appeal “astonished” by £2m brief fee for four-day case zurl.co/3uEPw
I think the ethics of displaying dead humans are far more challenging than many people grant. But, all the same, stories like this do show that museums are far too important a business to be left to curators.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Glasgow's Kelvingrove Museum has removed Egyptian mummies from display because there was no 'informed consent from the deceased individual'👇
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#Exclusive #Scotland #Glasgow #Museums #EgyptianMummies #Woke @MailOnlineScot
