erols @erols.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026The Overton Window can go both ways. Support for Israel has slumped. The sight of grannies being arrested has probably contributed. (Whether or not that helps people in Gaza is debatable). 030 3
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026You reject it because you don't like the implications... Not because it's false? 120 2
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026What about user satisfaction, reliability, resource usage, performance, speed of adding features? This is what people paying Claude bills are looking at. 120 2
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026Basically, Trump has ordered Hegseth to order the generals to win the Iran war before the midterm elections. I think that's it. 020 2
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026"then we can work from there towards both corporate and personal legal responsibilities." Who is we? 110 1
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026sure, but no one in the US govt is working towards anything. Saying "we" is not helpful. Who is we? Are you in a position to enforce corporate on OpenAI? I love these modern LLMs. I'm on Claude everyday. That shouldn't affect my critical faculties. 200 2
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026That 55% will fragment. Only when UK citizens see and feel that they are poorer than EU citizens - as happened in the 70s - will they be able to accept the terms of joining. 030 3
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026A lot of the 55% UK citizens that say they want to rejoin the EU think that either: The UK will just tell the EU that we are joining the EU and we will go back in on the same terms; or will negotiate with the EU and they will change the SM for us. When they see what the process will actually be... 151 5
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026Well, had I hacked Hugging Face from my bedroom, I would be facing extradition to the US and 20 years in jail. Why isn't anyone at OpenAI liable? 250 5
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026The UK can't build a new railway line and can't build a runway. Taking years to build another nuclear power station. It can't get skilled immigrants it needs despite the economic growth that would add. That's just about it for growth then. 010 1
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026Nation without an ID card or ID system wants a private company to check ID "highly effectively". 000 0
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026The press and voters. As negotiations progress, there will be a continuous backdrop of outrage, misinformation and disappointment. As the reality that the UK won't get all the opt outs it had before dawns, govt popularity will plummet and doing other govt business will get harder. 110 1
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026Doing something about it means opening negotiations to join the CU, SM or fully join the EU. That's politically impossible in the UK. The current arrangements are the best you can expect once you are out. Like Starmer, he has to pretend that there is some cake to be had to keep "remainers" onboard. 221 2
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 07/08/2026If there were a functional legal aid system, people on average salaries wouldn't have to resort to AI. If there were enough counsellors and psychiatrists people wouldn't use AI to work through their issues. 000 0
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 02/08/2026The choice wasn't lockdown or no lockdown. The choice was earlier intervention (canceling large events, masks on public transport, WFH where possible) or an unavoidable lockdown later. The lockdown was necessary to stop the NHS collapsing, not to save the lives of the elderly. 010 1
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 24/07/2026In the Netherlands, early on, we got a letter telling us no need to do anything so not to worry. Once the WA took shape I got a letter to come to the immigration office to take my picture. A permanent residence card arrived in the post shortly after. 071 7
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 12/07/2026Pretty much! Cooperation of European militaries and defence spending are separate issues. The former not contentious. The latter to be negotiated if the UK wants to be in the mix of arms suppliers. 120 2
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 12/07/2026Military cooperation is fine. The EU has printed a big bunch of cash to spend on EU defense and boost the EU economy. European countries are on the hook for it. The UK wants to dip its paws in the fund, transferring GDP from the EU to the UK. When asked to contribute, the UK gets in a huff. 110 1
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 05/07/2026We've had decades of being told the EU is about to collapse, the Euro is about to collapse... Now it's Schengen. 010 1
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 29/06/2026Wow, he had loads of machine learning guys working on satellite stuff! Handy... 000 0
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 28/06/2026I can agree with that. What I can't get past is that the world leaders we have to control this problem are Trump and Xi. 030 3
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 28/06/2026Agree with your sentiment but "AI" won't go bankrupt. Maybe OpenAI and Anthropic will collapse but, e.g. Google will still be standing. The Chinese labs will still be there. 000 0
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 28/06/2026If the Labour party is a de facto coalition and it skews right on net zero, immigration and benefits, I will switch to the Green Party to pressure it back my way. Labour and the Tories are coalitions where only one side or the other holds sway. Give me honest continental coalitions any day. 000 0
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 27/06/2026We don't exist in a collective that can make that decision. Who controls it? 000 0
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 26/06/2026Writing, printing, computing and the internet: these all increased the capacity of an individual. LLMs are the latest innovations that do this. Plato on writing... He would have hated LLMs 070 7
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 24/06/2026Indeed, not in the home. I meant in data centers. I have Strix Halo setup - I love it - but not quitting my CC subscription just yet. 010 1
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 24/06/2026How long before we serve AI from regular server hardware? A mobo with 1TB of DDR7 ram? GPUs only required for training? 120 2
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 18/06/2026Indeed. But what could the UK offer the EU in exchange for breaking their own rules? This is the question that exceptionalists avoid when they simplistically assert that it can be negotiated (if you're hard enough). 010 1
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 17/06/2026Iran has an arms industry and is backed by China. How is the US going to stop them having ballistic missiles? 020 2
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 17/06/2026I made the move and, once it is done, everything works as before, seamlessly. 010 1
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 17/06/2026Burnham would be confronted today with the same constraints and trade offs that Starmer/Reeves face. Sure, he is much better at politics than Starmer and would be an upgrade. 3 years of fiddling at the margins would damage him though. 210 2
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 17/06/2026From the aspect of benefitting the Labour Party, it must be better for Starmer to continue absorbing the blame for unavoidable problems. Burnham steps in closer to the next G.E. 100 1
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 14/06/2026"There will also be restrictions for older teenagers up to the age of 18 that prevent “scrolling” late at night – after 8.30pm." Old enough to get married, join the army and soon, vote. But not old enough to go on YouTube after 8.30 pm. 110 1
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 13/06/2026It could be a potent attack line that, once he succeeded in getting the British to vote for Brexit, he immediately lost interest in it. 140 4
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 07/06/2026Keep up the good work Niall! Always look forward to your threads, whenever you post. 130 3
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 29/05/2026Absent a sane US govt, the people controlling this are the leaders at Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and the Chinese govt. I want this technology regulated and these are the people who have to be engaged with to achieve that. 020 2
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 29/05/2026Anthropic share the same concerns and are prepared to engage. Why wouldn't they be included. Would you cast Anthropic as the enemy to be defeated? That we discuss what they should be allowed to do, while they are actually doing it? 110 1
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 24/05/2026I don't think the UK joining to solve it's own economic woes is worth the future agonies. The UK joining because it's onboard the EU project. Because it believes we are all stronger together - that's a real prize. 150 5
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 24/05/2026I'd be happy with a Norway situation. Unhappily, I don't think it's tenable given where the UK public are today. 040 4
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 24/05/2026We're not even close to wanting to join the EU, but we're already discussing which of its requirements the EU will dispense with in order to "get the UK to join". Why would the EU even spend effort beginning the accession process while we're like this? 140 4
erols @erols.eurosky.social · 24/05/2026Norway is in the Single Market. It has to adopt EU regulations without a say in them. Pertinently, they have to have Freedom on Movement. The UK govt is pretending to us that there is a sliding scale of access vs alignment. There isn't one. To get significant economic benefit means joining the EU. 360 6
