Lecturer in the School of Psychological Science at the University of Bristol.
Exploring all things Philosophical/ Meta/ Qualitative/ Open in science.
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Happily migrating from: https://twitter.com/RobbieC_Bristol
The End of History and the Last Man
Francis Fukuyamaâs book is over 30 years old, but the argument he makes has never been more relevant.
https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/the-end-of-history-and-the-last-man
latest newsletter from me
Stop saying âartificial intelligenceâ. (And âneural networksâ too.)
Be more specific. Say âreinforcement learningâ. Say âgenerative modellingâ. Say âBayesian filteringâ. Say âstatistical predictionâ.
These are incredibly useful tools that have nothing to do with âintelligenceâ.
And say âmodel trained on plagiarised dataâ.
Say âbullshit generatorâ.
Say âinternet regurgitatorâ.
These are also nothing to do with intelligence, but they have the added bonus of being useless, too.
đĄ Last week, CWTS welcomed a delegation of @RoRInstitute (RoRI) core-partners to Leiden for a horizon-scanning workshop, focused on shaping the future of the CWTS-RoRI partnership.
This event was all about looking to the future to spot novel opportunities and synergies for the next wave of meta-research!
đ Find out more about RoRI here đ https://researchonresearch.org
When the coach reached Glasgow, there was morning rush hour traffic on the M80. I have not been in a traffic jam for years.
I stared out from the coach window at all the individuals in their individual cars, contending with each other, struggling for forward movement. How is it possible that all those people who _could_ work together to solve such a simple problem, to create a collective, joyous, efficient way to travel... how have they been persuaded instead to see each other as obstacles and competitors? Is it really worth losing your humanity to have an expensive, dirty, metal suit? Who did this to us?
The enemies within: How the pandemic radicalised Britain
https://www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/p/the-enemies-within-how-the-pandemic
"The riots have been blamed on everything from the economy to Elon Musk. But the networks that mobilised violence on our streets were forged in opposition to vaccines and lockdowns"
Tom Stafford
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