Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 6hAs @ifbookspod.bsky.social said, there's a reason he's not called Thomas Thinkerton-Williams 000
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 8hThat's a much better way to put it, yes, as the public did not choose it. 000
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 12hIt is just not accurate to say that the public "chose Johnson's oven-ready deal". The majority of people did not vote for the Tories, and as it's not a referendum you can't know how many people voted Tory for reasons other than that deal. 100
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 17hA GE is not a referendum and can never be about a single issue, but even if it was, in 2019 the Tories won with 42% of the vote, meaning that the majority of the public wanted something other than Johnson's "oven-ready deal". 140
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I think the closest parallel is a computer virus 0110
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 10/10/2026They're "acting on their own" the same way a computer virus acts on its own 040
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Oh no, I won't see those famous faces any more when I hold my debit card against the reader 000
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 08/10/2026You said that if you're a member of a foreign terrorist org then you shouldn't have speech rights. You said nothing about whether someone should be allowed in or not. That makes you an enemy of the constitution. 000
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 08/10/2026You said that if you're a member of a foreign terrorist org then you shouldn't have speech rights. You said nothing about what that person's speech was. That makes you an enemy of the constitution. 100
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Curtis Yarvin is a sentient leather jacket whose worldview is shaped exclusively by the overheard opinions of 13-year-old boys who pretend to smoke and who resent having to clean their rooms 030
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Is it good that the government is doing this bsky.app/profile/aedw... 010
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Those three panels are presumably a celebration: - Record levels of non-EU immigration under the Tories after Brexit - Tory corruption run rampant under Johnson and co - Tory mishandling of COVID As part of that government, Badenoch wants to take credit 030
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026When will the white community stand up and condemn this extremism 010
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I do appreciate you trying to explain this, and I've found your comments interesting. 130
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Yes, that's precisely why I said "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" in the first place 010
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I get accurate results using Excel's built-in functions and tools. I'm trying to save myself time. So I can't see the benefit in spending however many hours working with multiple LLMs and holding multiple human reviews to iterate an imperfect program that does the same thing as me but less well 130
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I don't want a bug-free program, I want accurate analysis of a data set. 130
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026So you're saying that in order to analyze some data I have to get one or more LLMs to write a program, then write some verification tests, then I have to run it several times and each time I have to review the output in order to check accuracy. How am I supposed to review the output for accuracy? 120
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Who checks the validity of that program and its output? 140
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026So how would I check that the data analysis produced by one or more LLM was correct? 140
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The original post was just a quick summary, but for full context I did it side-by-side with an AI "power user" who showed me how to set it all up, query it, refine it etc. Neither of us know how it arrived at "decreased from 6% to 15%". 150
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I'm not critiquing anything, I'm relaying my direct experience - and your response has been to say that the AI I used was shit, or that I'm using it wrong, or that I'm lying. It's really unpleasant behavior. Can you understand why I'm not interested in engaging with you further? 170
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I'm not interested in indulging your No True Scotsman fallacy, thanks 140
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I knew the AI would be faultless in all this, thanks for getting to the bottom of it for us. I'll tell the AI power user that the wrong numbers were due to his incuriosity 1130
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The irony is that I actually did it while screen sharing with one of the company's AI power users, as he wanted to show me how it could be used to analyze large datasets. He couldn't explain why the numbers were different. Dogmatists will blithely reject this as untrue, of course. 2140
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026We've been told to use AI tools at work, so yesterday I used it to analyze some data in Excel. In the chat it gave me a set of answers. I told it to sum it up in a PPT slide. The slide contained a different set of numbers, and described 6% going to 15% as a "decrease". 4481
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If you're having fun just playing fantasy politics why not to go for 35% and a 1-point lead 030
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Especially as "rogue" is just being used to evade accountability. Everything these systems are doing is what they were instructed to do, constrained only by what they were instructed not to do. The people who set it up are 100% responsible for its behavior. 010
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Spurs are more likely to win the league than the Greens to outpoll Labour, and the political leader who's currently doing the best job of stopping Nigel Farage is Nigel Farage 010
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"I am America...I can make mistakes" was not on my bingo card 0290
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The most interesting thing in there is the word "dominated". A deliberate choice that is extremely revealing 120
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 30/09/2026What an amazingly entertaining and interesting article 060
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 30/09/2026And what higher creative aspiration should we strive for than "pretty good"? 010
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Yes, it's really going to come back to bite him in 2029 when he's prime minister. Wait, I'm now hearing that he almost certainly will not be prime minister and that he's using it rhetorically as a way to advance the salience of a subject that he and his party cares about 000
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This was a fun trip down memory lane my9games.net/en 020
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 29/09/2026And anyone who genuinely, honestly believes that it is likely to kill 8,000,000,000 people and continues to give them money and attention is similarly stupid or evil, and should be treated accordingly 220
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If they genuinely, honestly believe that it is likely to kill 8,000,000,000 people and they are continuing to develop it then they're either stupid or evil, in which case they should be aggressively starved of money and attention 111
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It's a small thing, but if you are even a casual reader of Iain Banks then you know he published his regular novels as Iain Banks and the Culture series as Iain M. Banks, so I suspect that Musk just asked Grok to summarize them for him 230
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 27/09/2026One man's illegal protest is another man's expression of legitimate concerns 041
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If any of these people truly, honestly believed that what they were working on would kill 8,000,000,000 humans, including themselves, then they would be behaving very differently 000
Ridgehead @ridgeheadgames.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Talking specifically of the AI developers and CEOs, if any of these people truly, honestly believed that what they were working on would kill 8,000,000,000 humans, including themselves, then they would be behaving very differently 020
