These kinds of errors are like human biases, revealing something about how LLMs "represent" the world. Evidently not as we do.

“I do not have endless time to wait for politics to catch up. For people like me, this is about whether we get any say over how our lives end and how much suffering we are expected to endure." Hannah Slater, who has terminal breast cancer, is urging MPs to bring back the assisted dying bill.

System 1 and System 2: "He also told the jury that “part of him” had wanted to kill Watkins, while another part had not. “Sometimes what your heart wants is not what your brain wants,” he said."

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If you ever needed evidence that people are not Bayesians, you need only observe that people were confused by this. Cheap talk does not confuse rational minds.

Countries with high speed rail and their challenges: Italy: Hills ✅ Japan: Hills and earthquakes ✅ France: Unions & Strikes ✅ China: Vast distances ✅ UK: NIMBYs ❌

We will soon be expecting authors to write locked in a glass room with no internet before we judge their work as authentic. Writing will become a stunt.

Ken Loach is the epitome of the wise elder. This is an amazing interview.

Given that Middlemarch is now officially (again) the best novel published in English, I am sharing this essay on negotiation in Middlemarch. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Nice to see Middlemarch on the top. Middlemarch is Eliot's name for Coventry, and with Coventry also in the Premier League next year I expect a lot of tourism and a lot of big names coming to visit Warwick University.

I am of the view that potholes should be treated as free speed bumps.

This is really great.

What kind of justice is this? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

People have been pleading with Labour to change the system and now it may be too late. In every election, most votes have no impact on who represents us or what policies we get.

Oh! What's this? Only the UK Labour government speaking out, again, via the UN, on the illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank...the very thing that many people repeatedly suggest the UK Labour government is not speaking out against! www.gov.uk/government/s...

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.

I have mixed feelings about this. I wish Dawkins had not claimed this, but it does highlight just how little we know about consciousness. I think if I met a humanoid robot who spoke like AI does I would have no trouble thinking it conscious.

I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:

Why incentive-compatibility isn't enough for data quality: Our new online experiment shows that popular belief elicitation methods like BSR and BDM fail to outperform simple, unincentivized introspection.

I understand why it is in there but ... the famous scene from The Odyssey featuring the Trojan Horse! A whole generation of students are going to "read" The Odyssey and write about the Trojan horse.

It seems the BBC is anticipating a Reform government and obeying in advance.

This article saddens me. They talk about an "industry" but only identify a few bit players making outsize claims about what they can do. We already know asylum seekers are being exploited, so of course they are being exploited in this way too. This article will cause real harm to real people.

Shabana Mahmood’s migration changes are expected to save just £600m – about 6% of the £10bn the home secretary claimed, according to the government’s own data. FOI data was obtained by @jdportes.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Was it only four days ago The Telegraph comment pages were gazing into their tea leaves ?

EGPROC is at University of Warwick this year. We are hoping to see a lot of familiar and unfamiliar faces in Coventry.

J.D.Vance suddenly becoming the man of the moment among the left!

i hope the white house sends vance to campaign for Reform in britain

I expect that we will eventually find out why the word "marathon" was used, but no journalist would use those terms to describe a day of talks -- not even enough time to get to know one another.

There is a popular story in negotiation literature. It involves American negotiators and -- lets say in this case negotiators from Country X.

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I sure wish they were allowing comments on this article.

I don't suppose there is another position in the world where you could say something like that in your official capacity and still have a job to come back to the next day.

I'm delighted that our paper, "Risk Matters Less When Options Are Apples-to-Oranges: The Translate-and-Accommodate Model" (Evan Weingarten, Yuval Rottenstreich, and George Wu) has just been accepted at Psychological Review. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 1/N

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Refreshing to see a European country take a hard line against the US’s illegal and immoral wars www.reuters.com/business/aer...

While our American cousins take to the streets to protest against Tяump's authoritarianism on No Kings Day, we're marching in London to prevent his divisive politics being imported to the UK. I'll be playing a few songs in Whitehall around 2:30pm www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Sometimes I wonder if lifestyle reporters have ever lived a life. The new phenomena of friends socialising at the gym.

UK knuckles under and goes to war with Iran and gets highly praised by the supreme leader.

I think it should be "all teams have a female coach on the bench" given the stated goal of bringing more women into coaching.

If I said something like this in the classroom I would never teach again.

Good news but I think we will be hearing fewer and fewer stories like this.

Extremely bad news. What is government for if not to improve the lives of its people?

J.D.Vance on Trump's foreign policy (in 2023).

Its as if the US knew the opportunity to attack with any semblance of justification was slipping out of their hands so they had to move quickly.

If King Leopold II could do it why can't I?

That is what Jesus is said to have done.

It seems that despite scholarship showing that Adam Smith's Pin Factory was a work of fiction, it keeps getting cited. The power of a good story.

A lot of discussion online about this. A lot of copium. Most popular books from now on will be partly AI written. Soon authors will have to place themselves in a glass box with pen and paper to ensure us that they actually wrote what they claimed. Or we just won't care. Or we will stop reading.