olliestanley
@olliestanley.bsky.social
ML engineer. Increasingly infrequent forays into armchair econ/policy
Yes, there's a weird tendency to ascribe to "AI" phenomena that have been on the rise since long before AI went mainstream. Automation in companies with varying degrees of success, cheating on assessments, automated job applications, social media spam. None are new
This is it. This is why the alarm about AI mostly ought to be a much much deeper and more urgent alarm about the completely broken social and cultural environment many of us live in now.
The real AI arms race is between one another 🥰 nymag.com/intelligence...
June 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Yes, there's a weird tendency to ascribe to "AI" phenomena that have been on the rise since long before AI went mainstream. Automation in companies with varying degrees of success, cheating on assessments, automated job applications, social media spam. None are new
Good that Labour have recognised non-dom changes will reduce tax revenue on net and are seeking to undo some of the damage. Unfortunate that it's too late to undo all of it, as so many have already left. www.ft.com/content/ba78...
Reeves considers changes to non-dom inheritance tax amid UK ‘exodus’
Chancellor is being lobbied by the City following a spate of departures by wealthy people
www.ft.com
June 17, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Good that Labour have recognised non-dom changes will reduce tax revenue on net and are seeking to undo some of the damage. Unfortunate that it's too late to undo all of it, as so many have already left. www.ft.com/content/ba78...
Good to see mainstream view cottoning onto a return to in-person exams being necessary, if a few years late. Unfortunate that it will be framed as "because AI" when it was already clear there was no meaningful assessment without in-person exams as far back as 2020, when exams went online for covid.
It's not the biggest problem education is facing but at some point the preference of parents and students for coursework and fewer exams is going to collide with the fact that AI probably necessitates a big return to in-person exams
Shocked (not).
June 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Good to see mainstream view cottoning onto a return to in-person exams being necessary, if a few years late. Unfortunate that it will be framed as "because AI" when it was already clear there was no meaningful assessment without in-person exams as far back as 2020, when exams went online for covid.
Nearly laughed out loud at the suggestion that "standing up for the multilateral rules-based trading system" is something any country in the world is or will be doing in response to these tariffs
May 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Nearly laughed out loud at the suggestion that "standing up for the multilateral rules-based trading system" is something any country in the world is or will be doing in response to these tariffs
Probably a nuclear take on here but I miss the long term economic plan, as derided as it was (and not necessarily unfairly). The more you think seriously about UK politics, the more it seems we were 2% in the referendum away from a decade of prosperity
May 8, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Probably a nuclear take on here but I miss the long term economic plan, as derided as it was (and not necessarily unfairly). The more you think seriously about UK politics, the more it seems we were 2% in the referendum away from a decade of prosperity
Finally trying this app properly, and it seems like everyone worth reading on UK politics is here now, but everyone worth reading on ML research is still only on Twitter. Suppose I'll be frittering time away on both from now on.
April 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Finally trying this app properly, and it seems like everyone worth reading on UK politics is here now, but everyone worth reading on ML research is still only on Twitter. Suppose I'll be frittering time away on both from now on.