Walking as if in someone else’s shoes is an act of imagination.

It’s often struck me that a failure to exercise *imagination*—even if people have this faculty to start with—is at the root of anti-migrant feeling.

I don’t think Ernest is the jealous type. Anyway, he’ll have little time for drink and sunshine if he’s with one of the international brigades! The fachas mean business.

“Some contend that AI’s ability to turn stolen creativity into slop and slop into revenue is unparalleled. Others claim that it promises to gift to humanity cures for cancer and autoimmune diseases.”

Is our bsky chatter going into the Hopper, do you think?

“if we remember the refugees we protect are people”

Here, exactly, many Brits have simply forgotten themselves. Refugees are reified (‘illegals’) or de-individualised (‘hordes’, ‘armies’, ‘an invasion’) or pre-judged (‘criminals’).

*Refugees are people*

I’m into music and have been following Rick Beato on AI music. It’s horrifying. A few people seem set to get wealthy from it. Joni Mitchell, David Bowie and a million others—reduced to inputs.

Increasingly, I get the feeling (feeling!) that enjoying a nice latte may in fact be all that’s required of me now.

“Latte-bot: the app that enjoys your latte so that you don’t have to, freeing you up to crack on with that vital project that will impress your boss!”

I can only assume then that the glittering prize for people working at the leading edge of AI must be just that: to successfully emulate what organic chemicals and protein structures are good at? The Frankenstinian urge, essentially.

This Clarke tale seems to have something to do with Large Language Models.

What happens when all the words have been captured and harnessed?

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Could you possibly rephrase that second sentence. I can’t parse it properly!

I don’t like to entertain this possibility, but it seems at least not unlikely.

AI must bump up against Cartesian dualism. What if there is no separate ‘person’ giving voice to the ‘idea’ (whatever those are) that they are doing some ‘thinking’? What if there’s only the process of thinking and electronic machines really can and do carry out the same thing as ‘grey matter’?

Didn’t notice. Too busy focusing on the main gist ✅

I (openly British) regularly have a second or ‘Hobbit’ breakfast. For example, tea and porridge in my approx 12m3 non-cuboid home shortly after waking, followed by maybe a nice latte and almond croissant mid-morning.

In this respect (and in this respect alone) Elon May be correct.

A particularly tickly dilemma, perhaps, for Hull & East Yorkshire Combined Authority’s elected Mayor, Reformista and Boxing Champ Luke Campbell MBE, who from his prestigious new office will now have daily sight of the wind turbine components awaiting loading at Siemens-Gamesa, a mile or so east.

Find out who they are and what they’re about.

Welcome them.

Let them find work. God knows there’s plenty to be done and the economy needs it. We need them.

Probably not in a gentile way though?

Me and Philip? Yet another 3-er. The Book of Dust is yielding many riches!

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“Allowed to”? If he believed it was warranted he’d say “Obliged/Compelled/Required to”

I would guess the BBC employs a fair few trans people, cos in my experience creativity and imagination are kind of well enough represented among trans people. God knows how they must feel sometimes about their employer. I’d sure like to know. BBC probably could do with knowing.