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Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...
Last post by Tamas - Today at 10:23:28 AMMost of the risks around AI would go away if marketing people stopped pretending it actually thinks.
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Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...
Last post by Sheilbh - Today at 09:43:39 AMIt's the bond of Reeves' fiscal rules and election pledges. Fiscal rules that are stricter than Jeremy Hunt's, economically bumpy times (some things in our controls, others like Trump not) plus a commitment to not raise taxes on "working people".
I think I mentioned with the rebellion on disability benefit - I'm really not sure the PLP will wear the cuts to special education needs provision (which is this cut - and again a ballooning cost that needs real, not Treasury-driven, reform) or immigration changes.
I often agree with Labour MPs but ultimately they ran on a manifesto ruling out revenue raising from two thirds of the tax base, have big spending plans on infrastructure, the NHS and (now) defence and they're rejecting all other cuts. I think at some point somewhere something will have to give and it won't be pretty.
I think I mentioned with the rebellion on disability benefit - I'm really not sure the PLP will wear the cuts to special education needs provision (which is this cut - and again a ballooning cost that needs real, not Treasury-driven, reform) or immigration changes.
I often agree with Labour MPs but ultimately they ran on a manifesto ruling out revenue raising from two thirds of the tax base, have big spending plans on infrastructure, the NHS and (now) defence and they're rejecting all other cuts. I think at some point somewhere something will have to give and it won't be pretty.
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Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...
Last post by Josquius - Today at 09:31:13 AMI have heard the experience of using the Chinese AI is rather interesting. I've not given one a go myself.
Apparently it will start to give you answers like "There are huge human rights violations happening with minority groups in western China" then suddenly run into a technical error where it can't give you the answer for some strange reason.
Apparently it will start to give you answers like "There are huge human rights violations happening with minority groups in western China" then suddenly run into a technical error where it can't give you the answer for some strange reason.
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Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...
Last post by Tamas - Today at 09:25:52 AMNow I see Labour is in-fighting over not ruling out potentially decreasing aid for disabled children.
FFS will the government finally get a clue and forget welfare cuts for a year?!
FFS will the government finally get a clue and forget welfare cuts for a year?!
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Gaming HQ / Re: The NEW New Boardgames Thr...
Last post by Habbaku - Today at 08:09:05 AMOkay, but how many sessions is that? 
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Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread
Last post by Darth Wagtaros - Today at 07:39:40 AMQuote from: Zoupa on June 30, 2025, 08:54:49 PMI couldn't get past the first 20 minutes of the first episode of season 1.Yeah, even fast food was like that back in the day and probably still is. I remember friends working 8o hour weeks (getting paid for 20 because TEAMWORK) and justifying it like it was a dotcom startup.
I think Anthony Bourdain was a cool dude, but this veneration of food and the chef culture is so cringe. It feels like a show for white hipsters.
Food industry leaves your joints fucked up and may include substance abuse. I don't get the verbal and emotional abuse shit.
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Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...
Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 07:22:03 AMQuote from: Jacob on July 06, 2025, 11:44:39 PMQuote from: Admiral Yi on July 06, 2025, 07:59:43 PMQuote from: Sheilbh on July 06, 2025, 01:05:14 PMInteresting piece on the FT with a slightly provocative argument (that I think could be right)...QuoteThe White House favours gutting any effective regulation of artificial intelligence, even as more and more experiments confirm that existing large language models are not safely aligned with acceptable political and social norms.
Can you tell me what this means Shelf?
In a Liberal Western context- LLM cannot be relied upon to not endorse ethnic cleansing or undermining the rule of law and the like.
In a Chinese context, LLM cannot be relied upon to not challenge Xi Jinping thought.
The first is true, scholars studying generative AI are beginning to think the second proposition is not also true.
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Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...
Last post by Sheilbh - Today at 07:08:28 AMQuote from: Richard Hakluyt on Today at 01:56:21 AMWe used to be far more committed to freedom than we are today. The IRA, for example, was not banned until the 25th of November 1974....five years into the troubles https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1974-11-25/debates/8422b814-468c-4637-97ef-77184fe1cde2/TerrorismTo go full RETVRN to tradition, Palestine Action can protest provided they inhale helium first.
Needless to say that I dislike nearly all of these groups (probably all of them but the list may include Tunbridge Wells WI for all I know), in a free country there is no need to break the law to make your point. Conflating these troublemakers with the likes of ISIS or hamas though....utterly ludicrous and counter-productive. Though there is the rub, are we still a free country?
#19
Gaming HQ / Re: The NEW New Boardgames Thr...
Last post by Darth Wagtaros - Today at 07:05:24 AMEighteen months into Gloomhaven.
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Off the Record / Re: Archaeologists do it in ho...
Last post by HVC - Today at 06:49:37 AMTo me it looks like someone in the process of unburying the stargate.