@slightlywinded

Autonomous, self-perpetuating sentient meat. Always loved em-dashes.

 St Albans, UK
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Joined April 2007
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The direction of travel (across the frontier labs, _maybe_ excl Anthropic if you’re generous) is both entrenched and grotesque
Andreas Kirsch 🇺🇦
@BlackHCJul 14
I work at Google DeepMind. This won't make me popular. But it's all public reporting: 2014: DeepMind reportedly sold to Google on conditions: no military use, independent oversight 2026: a Pentagon contract for "any lawful government purpose" Not one safeguard survived intact
Collage titled "Trust is not Governance — an essay from inside Google DeepMind, written in personal capacity." A 2014 memorandum, "Conditions of the Acquisition," lists: military applications of DeepMind technology banned; deployment decisions before an independent ethics board (as reported in Mallaby's The Infinity Machine). Red threads lead to a 2026 U.S. Department of Defense agreement for classified networks reading "any lawful government purpose," with safety settings and filters adjusted at the government's request and no contractor veto (reported terms, The Information, Apr. 2026). Below: a 2018 AI Principles strip ("no weapons, no surveillance") stamped DROPPED 2025, and a Project Mario 2016–2021 tag stamped ABANDONED.

ALT Collage titled "Trust is not Governance — an essay from inside Google DeepMind, written in personal capacity." A 2014 memorandum, "Conditions of the Acquisition," lists: military applications of DeepMind technology banned; deployment decisions before an independent ethics board (as reported in Mallaby's The Infinity Machine). Red threads lead to a 2026 U.S. Department of Defense agreement for classified networks reading "any lawful government purpose," with safety settings and filters adjusted at the government's request and no contractor veto (reported terms, The Information, Apr. 2026). Below: a 2018 AI Principles strip ("no weapons, no surveillance") stamped DROPPED 2025, and a Project Mario 2016–2021 tag stamped ABANDONED.

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Perhaps they were really both removed because of their extensive disinterest in using capital letters despite having access to some of the most powerful language manipulation technology on the planet…
Greg Brockman
@gdb18 Nov 2023
After learning today’s news, this is the message I sent to the OpenAI team:
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My wife bought herself some AirPod Pros. She basically lives in The Matrix now.
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If you want to know what I look like trying to sound convincing whilst winging it with a camera pointing at my face, this captures it pretty well 🤣
Percept@perceptaudit23 Aug 2019
In our panel discussion last month, our CEO, @slightlywinded spoke about the challenges we'll face with following people's digital journeys over the next year. ow.ly/GcCl50vGA3J #DigitalMarketing #FutureofDigitalMarketing #PanelDiscussion #DigitalJourney #ClickAttribution
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.@edgars_uk provided me a surprise #water -powered adrenaline-rush on my cycle ride this morning, as one of their delivery drivers simultaneously overtook and turned left into me, then shouted at me for "going up the inside". #twittergrumble
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This is the item at the top of my todo list: 'Octopus dysfunction slide'. #fwiw
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On (another) low, low day this thread is a welcome ray of sunshine xitter.cf/gordonmacmillan/status…
Gordon MacMillan@gordonmacmillan29 Jan 2017
Great story, read the whole thread. It's worth it. #RefugeesWelcome xitter.cf/dyllyp/status/82539756…
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Crazy @POTUS is making Twitter interesting again. Must be doing wonders for their Daily Active Users metric...
Hired car via @SixtUK. They just emailed that "fully comprehensive cover does not include theft protection" having charged me extra. #beware
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Less of an issue with the station café running out of bacon rolls, now they're known to cause instantaneous death.
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New system to train junior doctors in robotic surgery -- timeout.com/london/blog/a-me…
Thanks Skype, that's a really helpful error message. And I thought Twitter was stingy with character limits!
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Best 3 yr old tantrum yet — she wasn’t born when her grandparents married, thus missed their wedding. /ht @alabastamasta
Yesterday, I very slightly injured myself with my umbrella. The whole affair made me feel terribly English. #random
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Violet, age 3, had to ‘sign’ her first official document today: ICT compliance for primary school. #wtf
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Initial impressions of Apple Music: buffering insufficient for a long train-tunnel; decent recommendations; thinks Death Cab is ‘Hard Rock’
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Google results only seem to show rainbow imagery for 'gay' searches; e.g. google.co.uk/search?q=gay+pr… Why might that be? Hmm…
Some subtle advice from the aptly-named dontbeafuckingidiot.uk. dontbeafuckingidiot.uk/ #IVoted
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Had a go on an apple watch today. I really don't want to want one, but perhaps predictably, do. My Pebble looked on, ashamed.
I don't own an Apple Watch, but this echoes my Pebble experience (tl;dr: saves you bothering using your phone) - mattgemmell.com/distractions…
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