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@katebevan.com tbf that Aesop stuff is pretty good :)

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@npr.org Again? I really am going to have to anoint deputies.

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@levparikian.bsky.social I am! Although at least one person has said to me “wow, I didn’t know you were alive, I thought you must be super-old!”

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@openpolicy.bsky.social Ooh

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@arebee.bsky.social I love football, but fifa makes it very hard to like.

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@ianbetteridge.com Oh lord I have recently rediscovered them.

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@worklesshard.bsky.social “MOAR FOOTBALL STARS! MOAR!”

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@worklesshard.bsky.social “Write the future” remains my all-time fave. But that was pretty damn good.

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@samfr.bsky.social “What pharmaceutical manufacturers can learn from the World Cup”

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@ianbetteridge.com You’re just not seeing genius at work

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@ianbetteridge.com And of course, as always with people who believe machines can’t be conscious, his framework would struggle with edge cases on the human side. If a person is born without the capacity for emotion (there are conditions that approximate this) do they lose the status of being conscious?

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@ianbetteridge.com There is also a double standard on evidence. His preferred path requires no supporting evidence. It’s just intuitive. Any alternative path requires “a truly enormous amount of supporting evidence.” That’s not a neutral epistemic standard; it’s weighting the scales before the argument begins.

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@ianbetteridge.com He’s made evolution the gold standard. The developmental path he describes is explicitly evolutionary mimicry. But evolution is a blind process that found one solution to adaptive behaviour. Treating it as the canonical route to consciousness assumes that the path matters, not the destination.

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@ianbetteridge.com But that chain has at least two contestable links. Why are desires impossible without embodiment? And why are desires necessary for consciousness rather than, say, sufficient for one kind of consciousness? He’s presenting a specific, contestable theory of mind as if it’s a requirement.

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@ianbetteridge.com The entire piece is full of the kind of holes. There is an embodiment requirement – which is asserted, not argued for. He says there are “many reasons” for needing a body, then gives one: no body means no desires or emotions, and those are necessary for consciousness.

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@ianbetteridge.com “We don’t need to fully understand consciousness to say X isn’t conscious” cuts both ways. This is true for rocks. It’s much less obviously true for systems that exhibit flexible, context-sensitive behaviour at scale.

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@ianbetteridge.com That’s not a philosophical argument. It’s a pre-emptive immunity to challenge. You can’t settle a hard problem by declaring it not worth your time.

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@ianbetteridge.com The philosopher dismissal is a striking move. Chiang essentially says: even expert philosophical opinion that we should remain uncertain isn’t sufficient reason to take this seriously.

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@ianbetteridge.com The ridicule is doing the work the argument isn’t. The snuffing-out-consciousnesses framing is constructed to sound faintly hysterical. But making a position sound silly isn’t the same as refuting it.

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@ianbetteridge.com A Word document is static data. An LLM is an active computational process that transforms inputs into outputs through billions of weighted operations. Nobody who thinks seriously about machine consciousness is attributing it to text files. They’re attributing it to processes.

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@ianbetteridge.com Then there is this, which is just rhetorical horseshit of the kind that impresses people who already agree with the author. For anyone who knows how arguments work, though… well. Dreadful stuff.

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@ianbetteridge.com Describing how outputs are emitted doesn’t explain the computation that produces the probability distribution. That’s where the structure lives. A reader who stops here thinks they’ve understood LLMs. They’ve mostly just been told how the results come out.

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@ianbetteridge.com Describing each step as “running the LLM again on the growing prompt” implies full reprocessing from scratch. Deployed systems cache key-value computations from previous steps. Useful simplification, but not quite what happens under the hood.

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@ianbetteridge.com Then there’s determinism. The passage implies a fixed sequence: the model “generates the word I” then “pledge”, as if predetermined. Actually it samples from a probability distribution. Different temperature settings, different outputs. It’s a weighted lottery, not a lookup table.

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@ianbetteridge.com Chiang’s description of how LLMs work is oversimplified to the poing of absurdity. LLMs work with tokens, not words. Allegiance,” “indivisible,” and “United” would be multiple tokens. The word/token conflation isn’t just pedantic, as it affects the implied count of how many times the model runs.

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Self-driving, Tesla and the influence of brand: ianbetteridge.com

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Frumentatio! ianbetteridge.com

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Ten blue links, \"fork you\" edition: ianbetteridge.com

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The worst of us: ianbetteridge.com

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The freedom stack: ianbetteridge.com

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Zen fascists will control you: ianbetteridge.com

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Ten Blue Links, \"cough cough cough\" edition: ianbetteridge.com

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The fundamental error that doesn't exist: ianbetteridge.com

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Ten Blue Links, \"Cometh the hour, cometh the man-baby\" edition: ianbetteridge.com

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Watched: Predator: Badlands 🍿

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Well, this was definitely a movie. A predator movie, in fact. But it’s also a kids movie, deliberately, which most predator movies aren’t. I thought it slowed down too much in the middle, but there were enough good fights at the end to make it work a watch.

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Ten Blue Links, \"Greenland isn't green\" edition: ianbetteridge.com

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Watched: The Walking Dead S1E4, Vatos 🍿

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Never really watched it before today, apart from one episode which didn’t really “stick”. Kind of enjoying though.

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Watched: Annihilation 🍿

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Fascinating film, in part because it was deliberately Not The Book. Garland managed to make something that is profoundly strange, definitely with roots in the New Weird.

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Ten Blue Links, “featuring Peter Thiel, again!” edition: ianbetteridge.com

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Of ants, Saul Bass, and lost dreams of a cybernetic ecology: ianbetteridge.com

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Ten Blue Links – \"Platforms, promises and bad habits\" edition: ianbetteridge.com

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Watched: Under the Skin 🍿

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Finally got around to watching this after it sitting in the queue for far too long – I think I bought it after seeing The Zone of Interest and it’s interesting watching it with that film’s style in mind. Utterly amazing.

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Watched: Thunderbolts* 🍿

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Best recent Marvel movie. The New Avengers are much more interesting than the old ones.

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Slop Is Slop

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I wrote just a few months ago that I firmly believe generative AI tools not only can be, but already are, used to create genuine art. My problem with AI slop isn’t the AI, it’s the slop.

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I know this is a position which is controversial with those who take a strong anti-AI position (and I understand those positions). But I tend to agree with John. All tools can be used for art. What matters is the art, not the tool.

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Watched: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 🍿

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Look, it’s the best Marvel movie ever made. Equal parts funny, full of action, beautiful to look at and a great cast. Why a sequel isn’t already slated I don’t know.

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Watched: Eternals 🍿

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Hey, look, it’s not as bad as you remember. Don’t judge me.

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Ten Blue Links “Orion rising, EV prices falling and ads arriving” edition: ianbetteridge.com

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Ten Blue Links, “Pop goes the bubble” edition: ianbetteridge.com

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Ten Blue Links “Don’t Be Evil (some conditions apply)” edition: ianbetteridge.com

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Ten Blue Links, “forever blowing bubbles” edition: ianbetteridge.com

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