Shaun Lewin
@sionlewin.bsky.social
Geospatialist by trade, passerine enthusiast, fashioner of sound and light, into the neolithic Atlantic
my feeling is that students know that degrees do not guarantee them a decent lifestyle post graduation, but know that doing a degree buys them time to transition from education to what ever happens next. Some of them get into their course, but many just want 3 hassle free years in their life
November 29, 2025 at 10:28 AM
my feeling is that students know that degrees do not guarantee them a decent lifestyle post graduation, but know that doing a degree buys them time to transition from education to what ever happens next. Some of them get into their course, but many just want 3 hassle free years in their life
i like the way Awesome is where British evaluations begin to exceed the US. Matches up with my own usage too. Sincere use of awesome is reserved for really singular natural phenomena, virtuoso performances and other once in a lifetime experiences.
October 12, 2025 at 10:15 AM
i like the way Awesome is where British evaluations begin to exceed the US. Matches up with my own usage too. Sincere use of awesome is reserved for really singular natural phenomena, virtuoso performances and other once in a lifetime experiences.
that is a hypothetical on the level of near light speed interstellar travel though. In much the same way as I won't be worrying about the impact of time dilation on human civilisation, I'm happy to not get apocalyptic about AI sentience. It's a distraction from the real threats AI currently presents
August 21, 2025 at 9:49 AM
that is a hypothetical on the level of near light speed interstellar travel though. In much the same way as I won't be worrying about the impact of time dilation on human civilisation, I'm happy to not get apocalyptic about AI sentience. It's a distraction from the real threats AI currently presents
nah, having a mind is a necessary condition for psychosis. AI is somewhere between a statistical procedure and a library search
August 21, 2025 at 8:58 AM
nah, having a mind is a necessary condition for psychosis. AI is somewhere between a statistical procedure and a library search
Reposted by Shaun Lewin
In other words: If AI does one thing well, it's making explicit what «being human» means under current conditions. The answer cannot lie in a return to a supposedly universal humanism, but rather in a radical critique of these conditions that understands the role of AI systems in maintaining them
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July 27, 2025 at 8:55 AM
In other words: If AI does one thing well, it's making explicit what «being human» means under current conditions. The answer cannot lie in a return to a supposedly universal humanism, but rather in a radical critique of these conditions that understands the role of AI systems in maintaining them
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It's the same with Brexit. Most people vote out of self interest, whereas as most progressives tend to make arguments based on abstract liberal principles. There isn't a shared culture anymore. We need to explain why these ideas make everyone's life better, rather than hope people share our values.
July 21, 2025 at 7:22 AM
It's the same with Brexit. Most people vote out of self interest, whereas as most progressives tend to make arguments based on abstract liberal principles. There isn't a shared culture anymore. We need to explain why these ideas make everyone's life better, rather than hope people share our values.
bold claim for Exeter! Plymouth is the true capital of the SW. Everyone knows this in their hearts.
July 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
bold claim for Exeter! Plymouth is the true capital of the SW. Everyone knows this in their hearts.
Amazing how much the landscape has revegetated in roughly 100 years.
June 22, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Amazing how much the landscape has revegetated in roughly 100 years.
there's a tendency in AI boosterism to present LLM as a techno upgrade on a priest/guru/therapist and it"s entirely bogus- even if it delivered, it's infantilising, and there is no reason why compiling the average answer to a question should be the right solution to life.
June 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
there's a tendency in AI boosterism to present LLM as a techno upgrade on a priest/guru/therapist and it"s entirely bogus- even if it delivered, it's infantilising, and there is no reason why compiling the average answer to a question should be the right solution to life.
Are you habitually this rude, or just online? Not every person you disagree with is an idiot you know.
June 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Are you habitually this rude, or just online? Not every person you disagree with is an idiot you know.
because those reasons still work for a lot of people and until the source of that discontent is resolved people like Farage have got the upper hand. Reform voters are a significant demographic, so they have to be included, the idea they can be won over with rational economics is naive.
June 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
because those reasons still work for a lot of people and until the source of that discontent is resolved people like Farage have got the upper hand. Reform voters are a significant demographic, so they have to be included, the idea they can be won over with rational economics is naive.