iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 30/09/2026

Only if you only go back until you find a Brit and then stop. Usually you can also go back further!

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ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you are a popular politician and you just announce things people will support them because they are confident you are acting in their best interests.

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 30/09/2026

Chicken tikka masala is a _British_ dish!

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You can just do things

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 29/09/2026

Oh, sorry, you meant with respect to independence specifically. I thought you meant general investment from central gov. Yeah I mean the longer we get from 2012 the weaker the argument against indyref2 gets. I don’t doubt there will be another one at some point

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 29/09/2026

If you want to leave why wouldn’t you be ignored?

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 24/09/2026

Shouldn’t worry /about what/ is the question

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 24/09/2026

And there are genuinely problems in academia (eg mathandai.org) and also all the slop that’s causing problems in the courts and in the publishing industry. But I don’t know anyone disinterested who thinks this is an _existential_ threat to humanity

mathandai.org

Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 24/09/2026

100%. Even our tiny lit mag has been targeted with LLM phishing attacks (emails to academics purporting to come from us, for example)

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 24/09/2026

The thing is the bizarre culture clearly affects every employee’s ability to be rational. Either that or the “whistleblowers” are carefully selected and are sticking to a script. In either case these people are not neutral experts

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 24/09/2026

Not sure I’d call the likes of Sam Altman an “expert” on AI. I note the actual experts - academic computer scientists - do not think an AI apocalypse is imminent

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 24/09/2026

I agree that common law and equity have their own ethoses but I’m not sure that is distinguishable from the ethos of the body of advocates and judges. It’s not some separate Platonic ethos that judges ought to conform to, it’s an outgrowth of the ethos existing in society

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 24/09/2026

This is the way. Personally I don’t generate an opinion until i take hours going through my unsorted notes again. That’s how you get the best hot takes

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 24/09/2026

All fair, but then you must agree you’re also not really advocating for hiring based on objective merit but just based on different normative values

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 24/09/2026

Patenting is as much about stopping other people from doing something (or at least getting them to pay you for doing it) as it is about wanting to do something yourself

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 24/09/2026

Cannot believe this is a hot take in anno domini two thousand and twenty six

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 24/09/2026

Getting the law right is trivial. The hard part is deciding what a reasonable person would do in a certain situation, or deciding what the generally understood meaning of a certain word or phrase is - questions of fact

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 24/09/2026

The common law as a whole evolves based on the many data points of the many cases. The makeup of judges will directly shape that evolution. Also, at first instance especially, judges are mostly deciding on fact not law. They will all bring their personal experiences to that!

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 23/09/2026

I don't want to steel-man JRM too much, but I think what he's saying is he wants people to adopt the identity. He doesn't say he wants them to adapt to the pre-existing culture (he actively says he believes in the melting-pot theory which would contradict that)

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 23/09/2026

Surely you cannot honestly tell me sincerely that the new Overground names aren’t a little bit silly

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 23/09/2026

Supercilious middle management is such a standard English thing that hating on them is a media staple (see also Hyacinth Bucket, Fawlty Tower, and those people from Surrey in that magic book)

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 23/09/2026

The Prime Directive and the Juridical Role of Starfleet Commanders in Maintaining Federation Hegemony

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 23/09/2026

Oh lol, also not AI, BA have always been like this. Pretty sure every decision needs to be fed through head office hence why emails about buses come two hours late

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 23/09/2026

Really the Chancellor is the ref and the OBR is VAR - faceless bureaucrats in a backroom overriding the on-field decision! Maybe that framing will get people to see sense...

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 23/09/2026

Not AI, the paper printouts have always been the only reliable source of info when something goes wrong on British Airways flights!

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 23/09/2026

mfw I accidentally post my self-insert Trump slashfic to the BBC News website instead of AO3

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 23/09/2026

In the absence of courts I was going to go for "civil servant working in the Senate" or maybe "librarian at Jedi temple"

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 23/09/2026

am having to force myself to live in a state of at least partial denial because I find the currenty situation so deeply nauseating that constant knowledge of it would probably have a significant impact on my day-to-day

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 21/09/2026

Our main competitors are India (particularly in IT) and Australia & NZ

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 21/09/2026

I would actually go so far as to say we’re not even really competing with the US. The US has such a massive domestic market that most US service providers aren’t that interested in export Which means the UK have (close to) a global monopoly on English-language professional services exports

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 21/09/2026

In case anyone was wondering - obviously I did not read the parent thread before posting. Segregating city-level expats (ex-cits???) is bad!! Segregation is bad regardless of who the people are and what box you put them in

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 21/09/2026

Oh, well I have been misinformed about that! In that case the relevant banker is an expat by choice

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 21/09/2026

It’s a bugbear of mine! I will concede is that there’s no difference between an “expat” and a “migrant worker”, though (other than social class - migrant workers are working class expats)

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 21/09/2026

(They are called that because they cannot permanently move to HK and there is no path to citizenship. Therefore their “home” is still India.)

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 21/09/2026

People are incorrectly categorised due to racism (e.g., calling Brits who move to Thailand “expats”), but that doesn’t mean the categories themselves are devoid of non-racial meaning. Thinking that is Eurocentrism! E.g., a banker from India moves to HK for work. They are - and are called - an expat

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 21/09/2026

another massive W for the DVD hoarders (me)

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 21/09/2026

Expats consider their country of origin their home, and probably plan to return, immigrants don’t. Or: expats are non-doms.

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 21/09/2026

Doesn’t that just kick the can down the road to “well what makes biological processes so special then?” The physicalist vs not-physicalist framing from Will here is basically correct, though there are a _lot_ of sub-options within (2)

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 21/09/2026

Alas, yes. That and the original Burnout

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Science will always be a target for movements that rely on constructing their own version of reality.

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 20/09/2026

Bring back paternalism, honestly

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 19/09/2026

There was a time I would have agreed, but that was before they mobbed the Pakistani teenage cricket team

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 19/09/2026

The point is - if it’s so easy, why the flying fuck has AB not said anything?

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 18/09/2026

emptying the city of the culture we cherish 😭😭

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 17/09/2026

I think that’s what Project Hail Mary has as our niche! (going off the film, not read the book)

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 17/09/2026

All nationalism has elements of the same motivation. Most post-colonial nation-states are also ethnostates!

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 17/09/2026

It is obviously true, as can be seen in discussions in the thread from Scottish nationalists in re English immigrants and voting

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Gautam Kambhampati @gautampk.com · 16/09/2026

I think this explains basically all of it, yeah

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