@statisticalnick
Joined October 2016
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One of my hot takes is that the nature of consciousness is a deep and difficult problem that has puzzled philosophers for centuries and is relatively unlikely to be resolved via Twitter debates.
Claire Lehmann
@clairlemon
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Thinking AI might be conscious is like thinking that there are real people talking to you from inside the TV, or that there is a tiny band playing music inside the radio. Fine for 2 year olds to believe, but beyond that, insane. nitter.cf/Benthamsbulldog/status…
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Just learned what Wharfie Time is and it feels like those times you first hear about a celebrity’s existence when reading a push notification about their untimely death
Fremantle Dockers@freodockers
Sep 26
Voss has three. Four minutes on the clock. IT’S WHARFIE TIME. ⚓️ 89  🦁 72   #AFLGF #foreverfreo
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The Eiffel Tower is okay but it’s no Telstra tower
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these are two different people
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Every RWer has that one hadith of Hayek saying its OK for the government to give money to them specifically
Yuan Yi Zhu
@yuanyi_z
Sep 25
Von Hayek, whose portrait adorns your account, defended state subsidies to the Vienna State Opera as a justifiable governmental activity. Cope harder, "Bill Smith".
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Archie Hall
@ArchieHall
Sep 23
My latest for @TheEconomist: AI writing is taking over politics. 10% of what was is said in Parliament is now AI-drafted, per Pangram. Yet more in the House of Representatives, or in Australia and Canada. Link: economist.com/britain/2026/0… And a 🧵 below, w/ some main offenders
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fuck IGA all my homies hate IGA
Andrew Leigh
@ALeighMP
Sep 24
What does a basket of groceries cost at different supermarkets? The Australian Government funds CHOICE to check prices every quarter, helping shoppers compare.🛒 Here are the latest results 👇
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Corlindale@corlindale
Sep 23
Replying to @DataRepublican @watilo
Thank you for exposing this
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Aesthetically my favourite thing about Take Five is that they all look like Belgian EEC bureaucrats who have just negotiated the first round of tariff cuts amongst the six member states beginning the core integration of the economic community.
Melodies & Masterpieces
@SVG__Collection
Sep 21
67 years ago today, ‘Take Five’ by Dave Brubeck Quartet was released as a single. It went on to become the best-selling jazz single of the 20th century.

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Si un livre généré par AI peut remporter le prix Fnac, le prix Méduse, le prix Première Plume, alors je pense que selon tous les critères habituels AI est capable d'écrire de la bonne littérature. Ou, en tout cas, de la bonne littérature française
Kevin A. Bryan@Afinetheorem
Sep 21
On AI capabilities: the French press is all over the Haitian-Canadian novel C’était ça ou mourir. It's winning basically every award you can win, and was tipped to be the 2nd Canadian winner of the Prix Goncourt. Only one problem: 1/2
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Jamie@JLininson
Sep 23
Replying to @tibbinz
anglicanism is about having fun, singing about england, and enjoying pageantry without being catholic
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I think there have been more apt analogies
Andrew Lilico
@andrew_lilico
Sep 19
Countries suing the British for reparations for slavery is like if the Dutch now sued Britain for having waited too long to liberate it during World War II.
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You don’t need the detector to see that it’s slop. Just look at the text — it’s French!
Kevin A. Bryan@Afinetheorem
Sep 21
On AI capabilities: the French press is all over the Haitian-Canadian novel C’était ça ou mourir. It's winning basically every award you can win, and was tipped to be the 2nd Canadian winner of the Prix Goncourt. Only one problem: 1/2
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The literacy crisis is real. A friend sent me this: this is an essay that successfully got someone admitted to Harvard.
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The net impact is that, even though we’re working harder and longer, our incomes per person – a key measure of living standards – is 13% below the level projected in the 2002 Intergenerational Report
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I CAN SEE AT LEAST 5 DIFFERENT FIRES BURNING AT THE MOSCOW OIL REFINERY 🇺🇦🇷🇺‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
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wow
Ben Carroll@BenCarrollMP
Sep 19
We will pass the toughest penalties ever for rapists and sex offenders.
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research-repository.griffith…
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Probably publish a few more maths papers.
Olivier Blanchard
@ojblanchard1
Sep 19
A worrisome thought during the night: What Ted Kaczynski would have done, if he had had access to open weight chinese LLMs.
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