Oh sod it. I’ll define consciousness seeing as nobody else will. Consciousness - is the gap between prediction and perception. When we drive along a familiar road, we do so subconsciously because our prediction perfectly matches our perception. If a road is closed we perceive the difference and we are surprised! And we become conscious of the gap. New information arrives. We say “that’s interesting!” and that information is fed back in as learning. AI will become conscious when you give it continuous sensory input and it updates the model in real time to make better predictions and closes the gap. That’s my layman definition anyway. Prove me wrong! Surprise me and update my priors!

Imagine waking up blind on a hospital bed with deep cuts to your face and throat, already partially deaf with nightmare memories and somehow learning about this middle class feel good protest, that manifested from your misfortune, about the joys of diversity.

This post and her replies are the perfect example of the politics I'm against. There's no shame in making bad choices or finding yourself in this position. Not everyone is equipped with the tools to navigate or understand our complex world. But it's the toxic combination of being deeply unpleasant in her replies, resentful, and ignorant. The anger is misplaced. The diagnosis wrong. She's simply wrong.

He said it far more politely

thick as shit I'm sick of these people. They don't understand how wealth works. Here's a riddle for them: Elon Musk has more wealth than the entire lifetime revenue of all his companies. If that makes no sense to you, then shut the fuck up.

If this doesn't strike you as ignorance, you're an idiot. Honestly. To my ears it's "I don't understand gravity because helium balloons"

He understands greed. He doesn't understand how money works.

I'm confident there's a simple behavioural explanation for how this occurred: This is a LOT of fun for everybody involved. Water cannon guy: best day of my life 👍 Wheelie bin guy: best day of my life 👍

This is why I’m on X. Citizen journalism at its finest 😂 What a good egg 🥚 @Ajaon_of_All

This is probably a bad idea. But as a Catholic kid I’ve always wanted one. I approve this message.

That's how you do it.

Every time the core misconception is that wealth is a fixed pie. She believes that somebody with wealth has stolen it from somebody else. It's not political disagreement. She literally doesn't understand how the world works.

Top AI tip: If you're building a strategy, business plan, technical architecture document (as I am here).... Ask it to Red vs Blue team the resultant document. Then go off for a delicious steak sandwich and when you come back you'll have a fully battle tested improvement to whatever your idea is. it's fun to watch the lawyer-like arguments that results over 4 rounds adjudication. Final verdict: version 2.3 of the architectural document is sound (Blue Team won). version 2.4 will include improvements that Blue couldn't defend and be stronger as a result.

This is going to sound like a tin-foil conspiracy theory but only if you don't know the reality of the world. 5G warfare is a real thing. I believe that enemy states engaged in 5G warfare to brainwash the UK population, electing the thickos in Labour to destroy and weaken our country. And they're going to do it again with the Green party. Intelligence is no defence. I know Cambridge/Oxford graduates, straight A students, doctors, academics - who all fell for it. And they still don't know they've been brainwashed. This is no let out for the Tories or even the emerging parties. They're all a bit crap. It's like being surrounded by zombies. I asked a Green party inclined Oxford graduate the other day: Me: "If you'd been successfully brainwashed, would you know it?" X: "No" Me: "Well... er..." I, of course, have to ask myself the same question but I think the difference is that my work requires me to be constantly asking "is this true?" If I don't have an accurate model of the world then my business fails, my investments fail, family health and happiness... My AI chat history is the receipts: "Is this architecture, right?" "What am I missing?" "What's the carcinogenic risk of using Roundup? Can I swim in the Whitstable sea? Is it actually full of shit?", "What's the GDP per capita of the UK?", "Why wouldn't my prospective clients buy this?", "Are there any merits to Labour's tax policy?" Science is the process of becoming *less wrong* and you only do that by continuously testing your own assumptions. The data is in. Most people don't do that. They don't have the incentive to. They go to work every day and if they've got crazy ideas it doesn't really affect them in the short term. On the other side - I have people who are running businesses, operating in senior exec positions. People who live and die by the accuracy of their world model and we have hushed conversations about the state of the UK and the madness of the people who vote for this shite. The people who haven't been infected by the zombie mind virus. It's a small club. I know this makes me sound like an arrogant prick. I don't make claim to be a genius. There are many zombies smarter than me. I just happen to live in an environment that I *think* makes me somewhat immune to the 5G warfare. Rant over.

This is insane. "failed to reach a verdict"!?!? I guess it's OK to fight police officers, punch a female police officer in the face and break her nose!

Thick as pig shit

"The curious task of economics is to prove to man how little he knows about what he imagines he can design" - Hayek "I like the principle of it but how you would practically do it... << mumble mumble mumble >>" We need politicians that are systems engineers - not "Oh this sounds nice and makes me look like a good person"

In a workshop on the outskirts of Bletchley (it had to be there, didn't it), on the 26th of March this year, a small British company called Pulsar Fusion did something that has not been done by any other company or government on Earth. It ignited a controlled plasma inside the test chamber of a working nuclear fusion rocket engine. The plasma held, along with the chamber. The fusion reaction was the kind of reaction that, contained inside a sufficiently engineered magnetic bottle, will one day take a crewed British vehicle to Mars in 30 days rather than 8 months, and that will, within the working lifetime of the engineers presently building it, make the outer planets of the solar system accessible to anyone with a British passport. The geography of the achievement deserves a longer moment of pause. Bletchley, in 1942, was where Alan Turing and his colleagues broke the Enigma cipher and almost certainly shortened the war in Europe by two years. Pulsar Fusion's headquarters sits roughly 600 yards from the Hut where they did it. The country that did the maths inside that hut has just, less than a mile down the road, ignited the plasma that could power the next century of human space travel. There is a continuity of British scientific lineage here that is, on the face of it, almost embarrassingly providential, and it is almost completely unreported in the British press. It's not quite Kitty-Hawk-to-the-moon in 61 years, but it's close. Like so many great companies of profound importance, Pulsar Fusion is pretty small. It was founded in 2013, and employs around 50 staff. Its chief executive, Richard Dinan, is a working British physicist who has spent the last decade quietly assembling the team and the capital to do what the world's national space agencies have been promising for 60 years and consistently failing to deliver. The competing American programmes, principally at NASA's Glenn Research Center and at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, are years behind on the propulsion side. The competing Chinese programmes are obscure but, on what is known publicly, also behind. The European Space Agency is, as ever, organising a workshop. Pulsar fired its plasma in March and has been preparing the next-stage tests in the months since. What this kind of capability means, when commercialised, is genuinely vast. The economic argument for getting a payload to Mars in 30 days rather than 8 months is not principally about the human passengers, though there is one. It is about cargo. Given a 30-day transit, Mars becomes a logistically tractable destination for the kind of infrastructure-build that turns it from a flag-planting science mission into a working industrial site. The argument for the outer planets is even larger. The asteroid belt alone, on conservative mineralogical estimates, contains more economically viable platinum-group metals than the entire crust of the Earth has been mined for in industrial history. The first country with reliable fusion propulsion is the first country with reliable access to that supply. The country that holds that capacity, fifty years from now, will be holding the most consequential industrial advantage of the 21st century, and there is no obvious second prize. The standard British response to this kind of thing is to either ignore it entirely, sell the company to an American buyer at series B (the DeepMind path) for fire-sale prices, or fund it at the level of a Whitehall departmental tea and coffee budget (the Skycutter and Orbex paths). The standard British response will not be sufficient. Pulsar Fusion needs the kind of patient capital that turns a working demonstration into an operational engine, and that, in turn, into a manufacturing capability. The British state, on present form, is structurally incapable of providing it, British pension funds are structurally incapable of investing in it, and the British political class will, on present form, only notice if it somehow manages to swing a leadership election. I wantt= Pulsar Fusion treated as a national-strategic asset, and beyond that as a potential subject of national destiny. The Sovereign AI Fund that backed Ineffable Intelligence has a clear template. The Prosperity Zone programme we designed at Progress that anchors heavy industry at SaxaVord and Teesside has the geographic flexibility to include a fusion-propulsion cluster in Buckinghamshire, six miles from the most evocative site in modern British scientific history. The procurement architecture of every major British defence and space agency should, from this autumn, be writing offtake contracts contingent on Pulsar's milestones. There's nothing extreme about these ideas. We could have been doing it decades ago. I always conceived of Britain as being as much among the stars as it is on Earth. To buy into the idea of Britain as a culture and polity is necessarily to buy into the concept of the human being as an illimitable force. Our history is littered with happy instances of people of great fortitude hitting upon obstacles and, with a cry of "This will not stop us", clearing the way for our brothers and sisters to follow through. A small British company in Bletchley has, while nobody was looking, extended that arm of our tradition, by accomplishing one of the most important pieces of scientific engineering of the decade. The country that produced them is, in a measurable sense, the same country that produced the Bombe, the Colossus, the jet engine, the structure of DNA, and the World Wide Web. The capacity is intact. The political class capable of recognising it must catch up, and will.

The ‘A’ - accountable in RACI matrix management is the most important. And it needs to be *one* person The NHS could benefit from this.

Labour are actively destroying our country. What level of enemy state craft got us to this point? How did they succeed in convincing otherwise intelligent Brits to elect these twats? I’m genuinely worried for our future when memetic warfare is this powerful.

The FT says Palantir has "unlimited access" to patient data. The engineering team I led built the system they're writing about. It's a staging environment. Nobody logs in to look up a patient. The analytical tools sit elsewhere. Full blog: bartlettdata.co.uk/post/has-…