Brexit means Brexit Russian interference.

Unofficial/self diagnosis helped me in my personal relationships.

I mentioned to my partner that a doctor friend thought I had ADHD, and it really helped them not take some of my most annoying traits personally.

I get where you’re coming from with needing an official diagnosis for work accommodations, but none of your friends are really going to demand to see a doctor’s note, so why would personal relationships depend on an official diagnosis?

That line about competent bastards is running right through the Tory party at the moment.

Saatchi - former party chairman and the guy who came up with “labour isn’t working” has been saying the same thing.

It’s interesting that their response to this is always “we should be more competent” and never “we should stop being bastards”.

It’s all just the new testament. Before you fuck with poor people and nail them to a cross, make sure they aren’t just slumming it, and actually have a very powerful father.

I mean the big problem is how the labour party will whip.

PR is a significant issue, that changes how much power a party will have in the future. If PR goes through, it’s quite likely that no party will ever have enough MPs to rule without support of another party. It’s also likely to lead to the larger parties splitting into different factions. Because of this, the labour leadership are going to have strong opinions about it, and if they don’t support it, they will probably force their MPs to oppose it by using the party whips.

There’s one thing it will do, and that’s decrease legitimacy of the current system. If Labour get a supermajority and end up with 70% of the seats on 45% of the vote, it makes it very obvious that first past the post isn’t working. With that and what’s likely to be every other party calling for voting reform, it does make a cross party consensus on voting reform more likely.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23638823/microsoft-ethics-society-team-responsible-ai-layoffs

It’s always one of the first things to get cut when companies try to save money.

Because there’s all these fertilized eggs that don’t become people. If you believe life begins at conception, then IVF kills a lot.

It’s all unscientific nonsense, and requires you to ignore how many fertilized eggs don’t become a viable fetus, but the anti-abortion stance has never been about science. It’s about control.

I mean it’s worth remembering that some of the poorest areas in the country are in London. https://citymonitor.ai/community/uk-census-tower-hamlets-has-the-worst-child-poverty-rates-in-the-uk

Basically, the government doesn’t give a shit about poor people regardless of where they live. They just want to ensure that hedge fund managers living in Surrey can commute into their London office with a minimum of inconvenience.

I’m fairly sure most people don’t assume they know why someone said it’s blue, they just don’t care.

People say things to make conversation. It often fails to make sense, but you can just roll with it instead of autopsy-ing the conversation.

You’re normally expected to have lifelong symptoms, but that doesn’t mean you had to do badly in school.

You can constantly daydream, lose stuff and turn up late for everything and still ace tests, at least early on. It gets harder to get away with this later in life.

I tried using some but they’re all equally shit.

That would be fine, if people weren’t using LLMs to write code, or to do school work,

But they are. So it’s important to write these articles that say “if you keep using a chainsaw to drive nails, here are the limitations you need to be aware of.”

Work socks as well.

They’re socks that go with construction boots. Basically the same as hiking socks but cheaper.

There’s basically a hierarchy in political decision making.

1. Doing things that are good for the country.
2. Doing things that voters want.
3. Doing things your party wants.

1 should be the reason you get into politics in the first place because you want to make the world a better place. 2 is also super important, we live in a democracy and if you don’t give people some of what they want you’re not doing your job. 3 is basically day to day politicking. You throw red meat to members of the party so they continue to support you.

The Tory party is now so up their own arses that they only do 3 in the hope that they won’t tear themselves apart. This is some random anti-woke bullshit, that will mean it’s harder to catch and prevent child abuse, and kids can’t learn basic biology. And it doesn’t even appeal to what’s left of their fanbase.

Both. It’s like the saying “Governing a big country is like cooking small fish.” (With the explanation that if you keep poking it, it’ll disintegrate) also taught me how to cook fish as well as realpolitik.

The fish advice was most useful.

It’s very true on a Mac. Almost every time you click the green button, it jumps to full screen and then you can’t drag another window on top of it.

It’s a pain in the arse because my workflow is to have a reading screen with documents and emails on, and a work screen with whatever I’m actually doing. But if outlook is full screen, you can’t drag any other windows on top of it.

Don’t know why the first guy was saying this is a Windows thing though. I only run onto it on macs.

I mean that’s a problem, but it’s distinct from the word “intelligence”.

An intelligent dog can’t classify a logic problem either, but we’re still happy to call them intelligent.

“Write an essay on the rise of ai and fact check it.”

“Write a verifiable proof of the four colour problem”

“If p=np write a python program demonstrating this, else give me a high-level explanation why it is not true.”

Words might have meanings but AI has been used by researchers to refer to toy neutral networks longer than most people on Lemmy have been alive.

This insistence that AI must refer to human type intelligence is also such a weird distortion of language. Intelligence has never been a binary, human level indicator. When people say that a dog is intelligent, or an ant hive shows signs of intelligence, they don’t mean it can do what a human can. Why should AI be any different?

Literally, had to make this decision four years ago.

In the end I went to the German branch of the same tech company and only made 1/4 the money I would have in the US.

However, because it was a US company they made me do the “what to do when there’s a shooter in the workplace” training course anyway. No regrets about not going.