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Michael Larkin Oct 14

Thought I'd lost access to this account! Apparently not. Welcome back, me, from me.

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Michael Larkin Nov 18, 2024

@howisyourdog nice to see it here - haven't been there for years, but it was a favourite spot when I was doing my PhD!

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Michael Larkin Nov 18, 2024

@toran the OU psychology programme is good!

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Michael Larkin Nov 18, 2024

@howisyourdog victoria park?

Michael Larkin Apr 27, 2024

m271 Apr 27, 2024

It’s like he read Walkaway and realized, “Wow. That’s it. That’s the world I want.”

I’m going to go sit in a quiet room for a bit… 😑

@pluralistic

#nazisbutweird #haveyoureadaynrand

https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-network-state-plutocrat

The Tech Baron Seeking to Purge San Francisco of “Blues”

If Balaji Srinivasan is any guide, then the Silicon Valley plutocrats are definitely not OK.

The New Republic

Michael Larkin Apr 18, 2024

Simon Willison Apr 18, 2024

Love this theory by @alexhern that the reason ChatGPT uses words like "delve" a lot is that OpenAI outsource a lot of their RLHF annotation to workers in Nigeria, and Nigerian formal English has a slightly different vocabulary https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/16/techscape-ai-gadgest-humane-ai-pin-chatgpt

TechScape: How cheap, outsourced labour in Africa is shaping AI English

Workers in Africa have been exploited first by being paid a pittance to help make chatbots, then by having their own words become AI-ese. Plus, new AI gadgets are coming for your smartphones

The Guardian

Michael Larkin Mar 30, 2024

Philosophical Psychology Mar 26, 2024

Latest papers: Yavuz Recep Başoğlu examines alleged evidence-insensitive illusions of meaning and argues that none are evidence insensitive in a way that might support the view that we can perceive meanings in this open access article https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2024.2325549 @psychology #philosophy

Michael Larkin Oct 12, 2023

Paul Rosen Oct 8, 2023

Y'all know the "free as in beer or free as in speech" saying.

There's also "free as in piano". If you've ever gotten a free piano you'll know what I mean.

Michael Larkin Oct 12, 2023

Erin Kissane Oct 9, 2023

No Condition Is Permanent is in the running for my own personal album of the year, rarely leaves the turntable, god bless Mississippi Records

https://mississippirecords.bandcamp.com/album/no-condition-is-permanent

#highlife

No Condition Is Permanent, by Celestine Ukwu

5 track album

Mississippi Records

Michael Larkin Oct 8, 2023

Reading Nancy's essay, Being Singular Plural. Feels like a large proportion of the writing is addressing an audience who are halfway through a more elaborate conversation. Not sure whether I have the energy to unpack those aspects. The other parts - where the core argument is set out - are really clear, and useful though.