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Yes but look on the bright side, when all this goes pop we will be left with a billion burnt out GPUs and several thousand vibe coded personal calendar organisers.

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 15h

Llm outputs are already given an indelible hallmark, it shouldn't take a rocket scientist to trace it back to the instigator

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 18h

"Regulating us and in fact even just holding us legally accountable for our many crimes, would hold back innovation" is the oldest trick in the book. We just have a generation of particularly gullible politicians

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 19h

well then we need to tighten up the regulations and put measures in place to ensure we can reliably identify criminal perpetrators. None of this is particularly novel, its just basic criminal legislation and enforcement. We need to stop thinking LLMs are some other category, they're just software

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 19h

An AI that cannot safely and accurately follow user instructions is dangerously unfit for public release, its designers are legally responsible, and should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 19h

and you can buy a gun from a bloke in the nightclub, it doesn't mean we should just give up

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 19h

That's hardly a new problem though

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 22h

The big AI vendors are clearly panicking about their liability towards facilitating criminal use cases, and are desperately trying to push this farcical line (via people like Alex) that LLMs are just magic and so they can't possibly be held responsible for what their software is used for

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 22h

you sometimes also hear "bodywarmer"

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 22h

lol at the prices in the article. You'd have to be a finance bro to afford one

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 22h

ok, so catch them, stop them, and prosecute them, and quite possibly prosecute the software providers too, for not building in sufficient safeguards against criminal use. Same as any other crime.

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 22h

we do have a solution. disable and destroy the programme and prosecute the firms responsible, including significant jail time for executives

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 22h

correct. claiming the computer programme you are using to do crime is just doing the crime of its own initiative is the flimsiest excuse ever invented, and yet somehow everyone is falling for it like absolute suckers

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 22h

Guns in the hands of people do kill people, hence we restrict people's access to them.

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 22h

That's not a glib response, it's a request for governments to wake tf up and ignore these moronic terminator 2 fairy stories about rogue ai agents and actually regulate the industry properly

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Libertarian and nonce are synonyms anyway

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is why transport professionals mostly think in terms of expressways instead. A motorway is just a legal designation, not a measure of road capacity

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I wish I was shocked at the sheer level of mathematical illiteracy on display

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Argh, the best day is the same day as the institute of economic development conference. Why does this always happen

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You could just provide safe and legal places for freshmen to drink and socialise under adult supervision

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Apropros of nothing, I spent the day at the treasury warning about the risks of not releasing you're making implicit nonsensical assumptions

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I did a study 15 years ago (!) about how much EU membership had helped the UK car industry

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If the construction sector is so flooded with demand that it's picking and choosing projects, which is what crowding out implies, you'd expect construction spending to be up over the past 12 months, and the subsector to be outperforming the s&p, right?

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Someone should publicly bet him a million dollars like that bitcoin twerp

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Furman's an ideological extremist idiot

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yes, I think most people do it the wrong way round. Design and Write the bulk of the code yourself then get the llm to review and assist in debugging is much lower risk, but still provides substantial time savings

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Still not net positive is not the same as no improvement. It could previously have been net negative!

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Right but of course, they are *already* different technologies for exactly that reason. Claude cowork is a package of different software programmes and algorithms, only some of which could accurately be described as language models

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I don't necessarily mean the product will improve, I mean companies will inevitably eventually figure out how to make better use of it.

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Predictable but by no means inevitable, and unlikely to be permanent. Process innovation often lags behind technology adoption by a number of years

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Windowless rooms are utterly miserable. Bathrooms especially need fresh air, ventilation, and natural light.

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The tiny rooms with no windows? Grim

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Where are the bathrooms though

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'd love to see a detailed suggestion that didn't represent either a) a severe cut in allowance to those who need it the most or b) an enormous increase in the overall welfare budget. Personally I neither want nor need a state income, I just want free access to good quality public services.

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

how would it be different from regular unemployment or in-work benefits, pension, or carers allowance? would it be at a higher or lower level?

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

But most of them are hosted by idiots

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

yeah but you have to print it out and get it bound yourself

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

All very true. I really regret the decline of bbc 4: it did commission some good programmes, many of which were actually fronted by actual experts. Brian Cox, Mary Beard, Alice Roberts obvious examples of public intellectuals who are actually experts. Its a shame we don't have an economist version.

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

but that's literally what the most common and conventional meaning of "Zionism" implies, both in theory, and sadly, in 100 years of practice. So that *is* what this motion is attacking, quite literally.

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh that bloke used to be big into bitcoin. He's just another attention seeking right wing grifter

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Tbh I'm not sure you can decompose it like this. It's like asking which leg is better at walking. You need both!

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Seeking to endlessly redefine a reasonably well understood word with a concrete real world manifestation to point to seems only like a tactic for obscuration and avoidance of critical debate

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

But most of the principal Zionists did believe in that conception, and after they obtained power that was the version of Zionism that manifested in practice. and so the meaning of the word has coalesced around that particular definition, and so that's the version we're talking about.

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It is a definition, and I think the most commonly used one, it's the ones I believe the greens are using, and ultimately it does align with what happened in practice. Do you have an alternative definition?

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Those things are not equivalent though, as one specifically prioritises the right to territory of one ethnic group above others, and the other, well, doesn't

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Maybe your definition of Zionism differs from the standard one, eg en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism

en.wikipedia.org

Zionism - Wikipedia

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Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm not entirely sure that's an internally coherent concept

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