Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Unfollowing. Ridiculous. I used to subscribe! 000
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Reminds me of when they were pushing the Titanic business quarter to start-ups in Belfast and I said to the PR bloke 'what'll happen if any if the businesses ever want to float?' and he went grey and said 'please don't write that.' 030
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 30/09/2026What's the saying? Self-regulation is to real regulation what self-importance is to real importance. 000
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Okay. So explain what it is to 'generalise', and how humans do that. 111
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is the core of the problem. Cognition involves knowing, believing, wanting, doubting, persuading, wondering, etc etc. Scientists and philosophers don't really understand these things. So how can we teach a computer to do them?! (Let alone the problem of whether they'd be intractable...) 121
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Some kettles, half a dozen black bin bags of smelly clothes, and a broken rocking chair. 020
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Good. Far better it is trained on good quality material, with permission and payment, than scraping reddit posts and fan fiction. An LLM trained on the Enclopedia Britannica, good libraries, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy etc would be a good thing. This technology exists, lets make it good. 310
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Indeed, indeed. Almost as good as the bus in Morocco that was so crowded they employed a dwarf bus conductor because he could jump over the backs of the seats... 010
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The moral panics of the 2020s. I remember growing up reading my dad's old 70s books about how aliens built the pyramids and how a new ice age was coming. They sold millions. I never understood but I do now. 050
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Has the coffee improved as well? When I did this journey it came from a bloke with a jar of instant and a kettle wandering up and down! 110
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 25/09/2026People love saying this stuff. I was in a primary school this morning speaking to teachers about the techniques they use for teaching arithmetic. People still learn maths!! How can anyone pretend otherwise? 000
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Brilliant! SfC started hounding my school in 2024, did a totally made up, but massive, national press campaign saying our town was going to become 'smartphone free'. Absolutely fantasy! Disgraceful liars. I said straight away they were a US funded astroturf group. Glad to see it coming out finally. 010
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 24/09/2026At my kids school they realised that if you log in as a guest they can't track what you're doing and nothing is blocked. (If they checked they've probably got 1000 guests logged in at any one time...) 040
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It also makes me very aware of noncontinuity. So what if I share some genetic material with a 17th century hill farmer? We have nothing in common. Why on earth could it mean I should have more rights than anyone else? Baffling, really. 030
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I remember in 2016 saying that the blokes who said 'we can leave the EU and do trade deals with other, more exciting countries!' were precisely the types you could imagine saying 'I'm leaving my wife so I can date supermodels!', without realising that the supermodels also have a vote. 000
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I can trace my ancestors to the 1600s via Church records from a dale in Cumbria. Nobody more English than that. BUT people just pop up in the family tree and we have no idea where they came from. ALSO one of my grandads was a secret, never revealed who he was. Nobody knows who their ancestors were! 120
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Okay so he's banning my dad's LED calculator from the 1970s and chess apps? 030
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 23/09/2026As someone on the borders of philosophy and sociology I have to say I'd think philosophy of AI it fascinating. A way to talk about philosophy of technology, science, Bruno Latour, phil of mind, fading into Marxist and other theories of technology and 'cyborgs'... Could be an amazing course. 110
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Good luck finding someone to answer the phone there. But if this isn’t a prevent referral then what is? 160
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 22/09/2026When your glasses are a better parent than you. Dysfunctional idiots who think everyone needs technology to stop them being dysfunctional idiots. Make it stop. 000
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 22/09/2026So funny thst AI is better when it relies more on humans, and gets worse the more AI there is. Perfect. Amazing. 1313
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 20/09/2026My son also just did gcses. Maths and science are fine. Some subjects seems v clunky in a social media world. Media studies all about magazines & 1960s newspapers!! English: Inspector Calls and Victorian poetry, yawn. Languages low level. Progress 8 focus is v anti arts. 031
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Am a governor in 2 primaries, 1 rich, 1 poor. Rich school: super anxious parents. Don't say no to kids.(Covid effect) Often 1 home working, easier to drift into letting kids stay off. Poor school: chaotic lives, shift work, mental health and drugs mean parents struggle. Social services non existent. 210
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I used to do some work for Imperial when all you did was send an invoice. Then they changed to a horribly complicated system. 'It saves us money' they said. Yeah, no shit, but it costs me and I have less! Piss take. 000
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 17/09/2026'What happens if they invade us?' The 'if' doing a hell of a lot of work there! 160
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I always find it so weird when uni people say things like this. Who are they talking to? People in business always say they want people who can deal with ambiguity and make judgements. It's only about 'productivity' at the low levels. 010
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It's about not wanting the sorts of people who do these jobs around! Industrial tech is always about labour, and automating jobs is about not having to employ or deal with the people who do those jobs. It was in the industrial revolution, it is now. 001
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 09/09/2026PISA say that the picture with AI use is 'complex'. If you click on the filters, you can see results depending on what kids use AI for. They seem worried that richer kids use AI more and better. 000
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This whole thing is ridiculous. The idea a couple of dodgy nobodies can do something the trillion dollar tech companies can't is absurd from the start. Anyone believing that is so obviously clueless. 020
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 04/09/2026First day at cambridge, was told to wear suit, tie and gown for a photo. Didn't own any of that. Told to attend an event in 'day wear'. Had no idea that meant a suit, arrived in jeans and t shirt. Everyone thought I was being deliberately rude. Mortifying. My kids will not have these problems! 0130
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I was the first in my family to go to uni. I was clueless. My son has just started sixth form and he exists in a totally different world to the one I did. It's hard to explain just what a difference it makes to have parents who know how to write essays, study, know about work experience and jobs... 1210
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This is what shocked me so much about brexit, so much of it was driven by bitterness and a desire to 'send people back' and inflict pain on the EU, 'lefties', etc. Casual sadism.shocked.meshocked.meshocked.me - Contact us for any business inquiries 080
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Well. Speaking as a philosophy graduate, I'd say this is an interesting question but I'd certainly probe why he's chosen to focus on this family of illiberal groups and not, say, white nationalists or authoritarians, who seem more of a threat! 030
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Just read The Eye of the Master by Matteo Pasquinelli, in which he argues that Hayek had surprising influence on the way US AI research went in the 60s. 010
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Haha,we had a metro then upgraded to a maestro, I learned to drive in it. All the power of a hairdryer. 000
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I saw Waiting for Godot with Ian Mckellen and Patrick Stewart and behind us was a *stag do* who presumably liked Star Trek and Lord of the Rings. Lots of furrowed brows. 4471
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 23/08/2026And in top of it all he seems to have no idea what Kafkaesque means! 010
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Saw a pile prominently displayed at Zurich Airport on Monday. 250
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I am begging the authors of pieces like this to speak to some philosophers. (Damasio doesn't count!!) There is a vast literature on this subject. Please, please read just some of it. 000
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 10/08/2026They assume everyone needs and wants help with their job, relationships etc! What if... we're doing fine? It's revealing that they all seem to be crap at their jobs and have lives so shitty they crave help from the 'wrong half the time' machine. 0110
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Default strategy for everything: make primary schools do it. British Values, Prevent, 'enrichment', 'belonging', now this. They shouldn't just be a policy dumping ground! 080
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Christ yes. I recently had my recalled to 'update the door handle software'. Why do my door handles have software?? (They fucked it up and bricked the car for 3 days, and now one of the handles doesn’t work at all.) 051
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Well it's because odysseus being all soppy about his missus makes no sense if he's at it with calypso (and circe!) for 8 of the 10 years he's 'lost'..... 010
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Liberation Theology has been unbelievably powerful. In Europe we miss its impact. The American Christian establishment realised its challenge early on and developed the prosperity gospel as a reaction. Looking at the 21st century through this lens could be very productive, I think. 050
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 08/08/2026A straight white immigrant who has belatedly realised that his straight whiteness will not protect him. 'There was no one left to speak out for me....' 000
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 06/08/2026AH realising he and his wife and kids would all be deported. A shame he didn't think about this foreseeable development when the racists were useful to him..... 051
Bureautrash @fullydecaffeinated.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Same in schools. Long AI written complaints which quote non existent or totally irrelevant pieces of law. Takes so much time (and money) for things that should have been a chat with the teacher at the classroom door. 120
