mattlondon

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by mattlondon 3d ago
Yeah that's fair actually - the unintended consequences aspect (paperclips et al) I would hope that would be less of a concern though Vs people worried that the hugging face example could have been "generate a human virus that kil
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by mattlondon 3d ago
Yeah but then it is genocidal racial supremacist humans doing the killing, not the AI going "out of control" or whatever and killing the human race. I find it far-fetched to think the AI is going to kill us, and not actually just
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by mattlondon 3d ago
It was being speculated just a few months ago that Putin is thinking about it/being encouraged to use them. He must be seen to win at all costs, and not-winning is therefore seen as a threat to russian statehood. E.g. https:/&#x2
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by mattlondon 3d ago
What mechanism would an AI have today to simultaneously kill every single human being? They could totally brick the internet and cause every electrical device to explode and power stations to explode, planes drop out the sky, cars accelerat
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by mattlondon 3d ago
"right now"
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by mattlondon 3d ago
10% chance of AI killing us all... But how much of a chance of humans killing all humans? It's not like we are in some unprecedented era of peacefulness. I'd wager the chances of a proper nuclear exchange right now are above 10%.
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by mattlondon 5d ago
I have all "current" cabling needs in a sort of travel bag thing ... I think it is intended for digital cameras or something but its kinda an A5-sized zip-up "book" of a few pages of pockets and straps and velcro etc. S
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by mattlondon 8d ago
I think they have done some quantifiable good. Alphafold or Earthquake alerts for example spring to mind. You could argue about comprehensive "free" services (search, Gmail, YouTube, docs, etc) and "free" browsers and &q
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by mattlondon 10d ago
I appreciate that not everyone is fluent in English and may not fully follow the fil conducteur as a result: the point is don't blame screens, blame what you actively and consciously chose to put on the screen.
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by mattlondon 11d ago
This was my entire point. It's not the screens, it what you do with the screens. We do not need to reduce our lives to that of Luddites - we do not need to throw the baby out with the bathwater and avoid all screen use - just because p
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by mattlondon 11d ago
You missed the entire point. My point was it's how you decide to use them. Do you have a TV/screen as a constant visible physical presence in your life spewing content design to attract and hold attention, or do you have a screen
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by mattlondon 11d ago
Yep no one said it would be easy. It's hard for a smoker or drinker to get over their addiction too. That's why you need help. But you don't need to eliminate all forms of fermentation or combustion from your life to get ove
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by mattlondon 11d ago
I think it's more the technology, not the substance. Alcohol addiction is bad. But no one is saying we should have "bottle free days" or "try not to use a glass until you've been outside" or whatever - no one i
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by mattlondon 11d ago
I find all this anti-screen stuff kinda weird. Why avoid screens one day week? Do you also avoid electricity? Running water and sanitation? Refuse to use a wheel or mechanical advantage? It's almost Amish to me. Where do you draw the l
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by mattlondon 13d ago
I think down detector doesn't actually have any probes or actual insight into status etc. I think it uses search volume on its own service as a proxy for an outage - so if e.g. lots of people rush to down detector to query to see if S
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by mattlondon 13d ago
Gemini appears to be ok for me
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by mattlondon 13d ago
Working for me?
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by mattlondon 14d ago
Opus 5 medium has the same score as 3.8 flash on artificial analysis intelligence index. Are you implying Google or Artificial Analysis are reporting false numbers? What's your source?
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by mattlondon 14d ago
Currently top at https://deepswe.datacurve.ai - beating Opus 5! https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/gemini-3-8-flash shows an intelligence score of 59, the same as Opus 5 medium! Wow - for a flash model th
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by mattlondon 14d ago
Also https://web.archive.org/web/20260902150007/https://storage.g... in case it goes again
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by mattlondon 14d ago
Wow this comes after what - 3 or 4 weeks since 3.7 Flash, which was also 3 or 4 weeks after 3.6 Flash IIRC? I eagerly wait more info but sounds like Deepmind without Demis calling the shots has been unleashed and are operating at full speed
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by mattlondon 15d ago
Numatic Henry. My cleaners moaned about the Dyson but they love love love the Henry. Our Dyson is cordless and so so so convenient for a quick 15-20s cleanup after kids dinner etc. Grab and go. So we persoanlly use the Dyson for day to day
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by mattlondon 15d ago
My dentist recommended the dental picks (which can be used multiple times) instead of tape/string. I find it a lot easier than trying to fit my hands on my mouth (especially the longer L-shaped picks)
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by mattlondon 16d ago
While the economy may have been doing ok and all that, I think its still a lot to do with the feeling that everyone around you is doing _better_, and the increasingly prevalent need for instant-gratification. A lot of this probably comes
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by mattlondon 16d ago
Hmm this wasn't quite what I expected. I thought that this might be some sort of highlight based on complexity/risk/importance. That immediately struck me as a "why didn't I think of that?!" moment when actual
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by mattlondon 17d ago
The sad thing of course was that the people coming across on boats or clinging to the underside of lorries etc are not EU citizens arriving legally. Plus it's not like EU is the only source of migration (hellow commonwealth). I think
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by mattlondon 17d ago
> it turned out that a significant minority of 'leave' voters had been convinced that their vote would be an ineffectual protest with no actual influence +1 to this. "I didn't thing it would actually happen!" IIR
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by mattlondon 20d ago
What I heard was more recent than 8 years ago, more like 6-12 months ago
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by mattlondon 20d ago
YouTube. And video ads. Previously when making video ads you'd need to actually create the video. Actors, cameramen, editors - you name it. Now a new video ads is just a prompt away, directly inside the ad-spend web UI too no doubt.
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by mattlondon 20d ago
I heard that Firefox is banned internally at Google (something-something-security) so Devs can't even test against firefox

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