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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Adoption of AI can’t increase productivity *and* create a cornucopia of new well-paid jobs. That’s a fantasy world.

Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Based on the behaviour of corporations over the last decades, do you expect they will voluntarily pass on those increased profits to their workers? Or will it accelerate the movement of wealth to the company owners, as has been the case since the 1970s?

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Forget AI for a moment, and imagine we wave a magic wand and immediately increase the profit margins for all those companies through some other means — e.g. eliminate corporate taxation.

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

In either sense, it’s a reduction of money spent on personnel costs (i.e. wages) per dollar of GDP — that’s what increased productivity means.

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Let’s do a thought experiment. If we take their predictions at face value, what AI will deliver is either increased revenue for companies adopting AI, with no change in personnel costs; a massive reduction in personnel costs for the same amount of revenue; or some combination of the two.

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

AI accelerationists frequently hype the amazing increases in productivity that AI will deliver, and the enormous benefits to society that will result.

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

tfw most of your favourite albums are available in their "20th anniversary edition" #genxthings

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

A few months ago I had the great pleasure to chat with @giuliadangelo.bsky.social and @fabhertz.bsky.social for their new #Sottosoglia #podcast. We covered the differences between working in #academia and the #startup life, as well as a lot of very personal ground...

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SOTTOSOGLIA PODCAST #3: DYLAN MUIR

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

What a horrifying article to see posted by the premier science journal. Attacks on scientists and on science are direct attacks on the rational basis for liberal democracies. None of this is normal or acceptable, and leads very quickly to a very dark place.

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

What an incredible failure of #privatised #healthcare. Healthcare and medicine shouldn’t make a profit, and shouldn’t be privately funded or delivered. Shut down Australia’s private healthcare industry, and fully fund #Medicare. #Auspol

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

A toddler in cardiac distress is ignored for hours on a Saturday morning, and tragically dies. Months later, a woman goes into labour on a Saturday, needs an emergency caesarean, but no theatre staff are present to operate. 50 minutes later she gives birth vaginally, and the baby doesn’t survive.

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Consequently, the hospital cuts staffing numbers to save money, especially on weekends.

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

A private healthcare company, given a contract by the #LNP to run a public hospital, is placed under financial pressure by the awful Australian private health insurance industry, which doesn’t pay for health services that people need.

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Inform them clearly about the statistics of the PhD-to-Professor pipeline. Advise them about the political wrangling and support needed to succeed in academia.

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

But beyond this superficial similarity, *mechanistically* they are all fundamentally different and incomparable.

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

The early network layers produce things which look like receptive fields — because any optimisation method attempting to maximise information about visual scenes will extract the statistics of visual scenes. PCA, ICA, CNNs… it’s not surprising.

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Good point for same constraints producing rhyming solutions to a common problem. We see that superficially with networks trained on vision tasks.

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

It’s often noted how wild and specific the structures resulting from e.g. evolutionary algorithms are. So why would we expect to learn something concrete about the mechanisms of biological systems, from studying synthetically evolved systems? Same goes for trained NNs.

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Bio brains and trained networks are both the end-point of an optimization process, but unless the constraints and loss function are identical, there is no reason to believe the solutions will be in any way comparable.

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

1/7. Public discourse about racial equity has changed a lot over the years. At @commhsp.bsky.social we’ve been monitoring those changes and their consequences. In a new 538 article, @efranklinfowler.bsky.social and I share what we’ve been seeing and why it matters. abcnews.go.com/538/national...

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How the national conversation shifted from structural racism to DEI

How the conversation about DEI has evolved over time.

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Government is big business. *Somebody* has to do the work required to keep public agencies grinding along. If you fire full-time staff, you spend much more in personnel contracting, consultants and private firms taking up the contracts. 🤔 Funny, sounds just like #LNP policy… #Dutton #auspol

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Dynamical systems give you some mathematical tools to analyse stability and state sparse partitions, but “programming” them is less intuitive for coders.

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

How many millions of dollars and terawatts of energy will it take to convince the math sand to do math

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

It's not the process aspect of the conscience vote that I object to; it's the content of their consciences :) I would hope all #Labor pols would vote against the trans hatred. #auspol

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

#linkedin #corporateposting 🙄 But these are topics that I feel strongly about!

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

As a nascent industry, we need to demonstrate long-term stability, and provide off-the-shelf solutions that are cheap and easy for OEMs to adopt.

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Instead, barriers are issues around maturity of #toolchains; perceived risk in using tech from young companies that may not survive; weak #technical #support compared with e.g. ST or TI; and a disadvantage in how many #engineers are familiar with building and deploying #neuromorphic #applications.

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The main barriers to commercial adoption of #neuromorphic technology in 2025 are not technological — Neuromorphic #processors are already available, with #benchmark #applications in #audio and #vision processing showing massive advantages over conventional processing.

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Came back today to the amazing #tenochtitlan tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl by @thomaskole.bsky.social . Breath-taking and heart-rending from a colonial perspective.

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a portrait of Tenochtitlan

a 3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec Empire

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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Peter #Dutton is claiming inflation is too high under #Labor. The inflation rate was 6.1% when the #LNP were booted out of power. It's now 3.2%. #insiders #misinformation #auspol

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

My expectation for ethical behaviour from #Dutton is absolutely zero, but if #Labor want a hope in hell of winning the upcoming election, they need to act like a progressive party and step up.

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

It should be trivial for #Labor and #Albanese — along with every person with a sense of ethics or international law — to reject this revolting proposal for ethnic cleaning in Gaza. Australian politicians need to find a backbone and get louder. #auspol

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Dutton praises Trump as ‘big thinker’ as Albanese avoids direct comment on proposed US Gaza takeover

The UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, condemns Australian government’s response as ‘pathetic’

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 06/02/2025

Let's remember every single company and institution that's rolling back their DEI programmes right now without even being forced to do so. The fact that they're doing it so fast means they were just waiting for the opportunity. True colours shown. Google, Meta, HHMI 😢, ...

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 06/02/2025

The fundamental point is: they are coming for trans people because they are coming for queer people because they are coming for cis women because they are coming for Black people

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Let’s be really clear, THIS IS NOT ABOUT SPORTS. This is about *violence* against Trans women. This is about enforcing hate as public policy. This is pure evil.

How many transgender athletes are there in the U.S.?
Out of 510,000 athletes competing at the collegiate level, there are fewer than 10 who publicly identify as transgender, Charlie Baker, the N.C.A.A. president, said in January.
source: New York Times

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 05/02/2025

Trump: "I'm also directing Secretary of homeland security Kristi Noem to deny any and all visa applications made by men attempting to fraudulently enter the United States as women athletes." A visa ban on trans people.

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Melissa Penny @melissa-a-penny.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Exciting opportunity for a talented scientific software developer to join our Global Disease Modelling team(bit.ly/4gtvnNN) to build & maintain #malaria & disease #models! If you share a passion for achieving impact in #GlobalHealth, please apply here: bit.ly/40ZSdrF Closing date: 12th Feb

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The OpportunityIt is a very exciting time at The Kids Research Institute Australia as we continue to evolve from what began in the 1980’s as a ...

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