Sean Thomas
Contributor at The Spectator
Thriller writer, travel writer, vacillator
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1 week ago |
spectator.com.au | Sean Thomas
Do you remember long division? I do, vaguely – I certainly remember mastering it at school: that weird little maths shelter you built, with numbers cowering inside like fairytale children, and a wolf-number at the door, trying to eat them (I had quite a vivid imagination as a child). Then came the carnage as the wolf got in – but also a sweet satisfaction at the end.
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1 week ago |
spectator.co.uk | Sean Thomas
Do you remember long division? I do, vaguely – I certainly remember mastering it at school: that weird little maths shelter you built, with numbers cowering inside like fairytale children, and a wolf-number at the door, trying to eat them (I had quite a vivid imagination as a child). Then came the carnage as the wolf got in – but also a sweet satisfaction at the end. The answer! You’d completed the task with nothing but your brain, a pen, and a scrap of paper. You’d thought your way through it.
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1 week ago |
spectator.co.uk | Sean Thomas
In the middle of Cairo there’s a place called the City of the Dead. In essence, it is a dusty sprawl of mausoleums, sepulchres and crumbling Mameluke tombs, that has housed the corpses of the city for over a thousand years. On a dank winter’s dusk, it feels especially lifeless – deformed dogs vanish into shadows, random fires burn vile rubbish. But that’s when you notice children’s toys. Cheap clothes drying outside a tomb. And you realise, with a shudder: my God, some poor people live here.
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2 weeks ago |
spectator.com.au | Sean Thomas
Do you remember the lads’ mags? I do because I worked on them for years. FHM, Maxim, all those gloriously disreputable titles. I helped dream up the captions, the gags, the gonzo reportage, the phwoar-heavy covers. I also remember how they were reviled. Condemned by broadsheets, feminists, academics. Accused of objectifying girls, toxifying masculinity and encouraging men to enjoy cold lager, bare breasts and football gossip.
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2 weeks ago |
spectator.co.uk | Sean Thomas
Do you remember the lads’ mags? I do because I worked on them for years. FHM, Maxim, all those gloriously disreputable titles. I helped dream up the captions, the gags, the gonzo reportage, the phwoar-heavy covers. I also remember how they were reviled. Condemned by broadsheets, feminists, academics. Accused of objectifying girls, toxifying masculinity and encouraging men to enjoy cold lager, bare breasts and football gossip. Yet here’s the thing.
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Universities are very clearly doomed - mainly by AI
universities are going to use AI in everything to deliver a far worse education and then inevitably in ~5 years chatgpt will argue that it can now give a university level education without the fees and they'll all go bust. you don't have to do this! you can just not use it!
This is a really good and rather alarming interview of AI superguru Yoshua Bengio. However again one has to note the total surprise of another clever journalist - like @faisalislam - that AI has advanced so far, so fast. This stuff is not secretively hidden away
🚨 Mind blowing interview with Turing award-winning Yoshua Bengio for @BBCNewsnight one of the three founding fathers of AI, is now warning: “The worst-case scenario is human extinction.” AI isn’t just risky — it could end us. 1/10 🧵 📺 https://t.co/ZuCGgCoKEM
RT @aIIegoricaI: Ben Pentreath is the best architectural designer around today and it’s not even close https://t.co/fqjDSPhxMK
