Being Human
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
This is a bit of a rant.
I’ve memories of a senior manager shooting ideas down saying
“correlation is not causation, I’ve done Stats at Uni and can prove anything is related to baked beans”
I grated sooooo much.
Firstly as it was thoughtless rhetoric, either purposefully or accidentally steam rolling ideas. Immediately dismissing any attempts at constructive data driven decisions.
Secondly it grated because I didn’t have the tools to show causation.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Great opinion piece in the NY Times by Meghan O’Rourke.
I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students.
Ms. O’Rourke is the executive editor of The Yale Review and a professor of creative writing at Yale University.
Uncertainty to understand This bit shouted at me. Spending time in uncertainty. 🤓🤓🤓
“When I write, the process is full of risk, error and painstaking self-correction. It arrives somewhere surprising only when I’ve stayed in uncertainty long enough to find out what I had initially failed to understand.
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Friday, June 27, 2025
I wish I had time to finish:
my research on the Evolution of Probalisitic Reasoning in AI Particularly Dempster-Shafer and Bayesian Networks How LLMs and Bayesian networks can be used for Risk Management create an youtube/insta/tiktok vid for my latest post on LLM Agent But I don’t!! So this is me putting it to one side…
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Friday, June 27, 2025
Polish is cheap in this Brave New World of AI. Being scrappy is a way of being authentic and, most importantly, Being Human!
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Wednesday, June 4, 2025
What is knowledge? Wtf am I trying to learn!
Claude “thinks” this post is mental masturbation 😆 well even the physical version serves a good purpose! 🤷🏼♂️
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Sunday, May 18, 2025
“There must be an invisible sun, giving heat to everyone”
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Sunday, April 20, 2025
The text reflects on the misuse of technology and ethics in Silicon Valley, highlighting the importance of awareness and compassion amidst current challenges.
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Friday, April 11, 2025
Great podcast where she talks about why America is broken.
Ideological sabotage (which surprised me, I’d thought the initial perpetrators would have done it for money) of the scientific method to protect the “right of freedom” has done exactly the opposite…
It really feels like some Americas are stuck fighting against no longer existence foes, either the British tyranny and taxation without representation or the war between capitalism and communism.
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Saturday, March 22, 2025 →
“But who was learning, you or the machine?”
“Well, I suppose we both were”
Amazing book 🔥🤓
#TheAlignmentProblem #Learning #ResponsibleAI
The Alignment Problem by Brian Christian 📚
Friday, March 21, 2025 →
Clearly there are thoughtful, well spoken politicians in America.
youtu.be/ubBnUCXj4…
I hope people can rally around and stop the Baffons soon. 💪🏼
#BeingHuman
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
There’s a lot of change at the moment, my feed is all about foreign policies, US government cuts, AI writing all code, and now parenting adolescents.
I’ve been experiencing a high level of uncertainty about Europe’s place in the world, mainly what decisions will be made after the US made their policy clear.
Though there’s one area that my uncertainty is decreasing in; that’s AI generated code. It won’t replace software engineers.
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Thursday, March 13, 2025
(I forget exactly but I’m pretty sure this is from an Alan Watts lecture).
A farmer needs some help around his farm. He puts up a sign in town, asking for someone with general skills to help around the farm.
A gent arrives two days later with his toolkit, the farmer welcomes him and tells him there are some broken fences on the north side of his farm.
The gent heads over to the area, spends the day fixing the fences, and comes back in the evening to tell the farmer it’s done.
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Sunday, February 23, 2025
The author shares personal reflections on self-kindness and positive thinking as tools for finding peace amid societal challenges.
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Thursday, February 20, 2025
My wife and I have 3 main concerns with our daughters use of phones and Social Media
what her videos and posts can be used for. That includes both the companies and any who has access (making fake videos in their likeness) loss of critical thinking addiction and the infinite scroll So we’ve got these 4 guidelines in place:
phone off at 20h 30 minutes reading each night creative session per week meditation (2*5 minutes per week) I’ve also gone through these two posts with my 13 year old daughter.
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Thursday, February 13, 2025
Had a nice exchange about Agency with Paul Burchard on LinkedIn this morning.
My thinking goes towards Agency being a secondary characteristic, definition even, of what we see as a result of senses, perception, intelligence, and consciousness.
Those primary characteristics are from the Buddhist 5 Aggregates (physical form, senses, perception, mental activity, and consciousness).
It was a great exchange, helped me clarify and link my thinking to yesterday’s post on the Perceptron.
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Monday, February 10, 2025 →
This is not normal nor is it ok. Meta is now the pervy old man you have to teach your kids to avoid.
transparency.meta.com/en-gb/pol…
#BeingHuman #ResponsibleAI
Saturday, February 8, 2025 →
If I could answer any question in science, I’d find out what involvement the neurons in our heart and gut have in decision making and how we view ourselves.
What about you?
#BeingHuman #ThatsNotAWeekendProject 🙃
Sunday, February 2, 2025
I read an insightful comment within the current wave of LLM Reasoning hype. It has stuck with me.
At least two reasons:
It reminded me of my view that AGI is already here in the guise of companies It’s also a valid answer as to why I meditate and why Searle’s Chinese Room is mainly wrong Back to the comment, paraphrased it said: “the uncomfortable truth that these reasoning models show us that a lot of activities that we thought need human reasoning to complete simply need functional predictions”
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