Chief Security Architect at Capgemini UK. Specialist in PKI, smart meters and high threat environments.
England (usually)
Joined November 2008
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I do not have the honour of being a Jew
But I am a Zionist.
After what the Green Party have done, I just wanted to be very clear.
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Torpenhow Hill, England
When the Saxons arrived and asked the locals what that hill was called, the Welsh replied, “Pen,” which simply means hill in Welsh.
The Saxons, apparently not spotting they’d already been given the full answer, added their own word for hill: tor. So it became Torpen - literally Hill Hill.
A few centuries later, the Norse turned up and repeated the exercise, adding haugr, their word for hill. Now it was effectively Torpenhaugr - Hill Hill Hill.
Then the English arrived, looked at the whole thing, shrugged, and added “Hill” on the end for good measure.
Thus we ended up with Torpenhow Hill:
Hill Hill Hill Hill.
It’s comforting to know that for over a thousand years, successive generations have been independently deciding that the previous lot hadn’t made it quite clear enough that it was, in fact, a hill.
Language is magnificent.
Humans… less so.🤷🏻♂️🤣
OK, everyone. Let’s try to get this trending.
If you’re disgusted at Dublin City Council trying to erase Irish Jewish history and want to help the tiny Jewish community here in some way, please do quote tweet with the hashtag: #HandsOffHerzogPark
Let it be known Irish Jewry is seen and supported 🫶🏼
ALT Selfie.
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Estimated share of deaths from violence between members of the same species
[Link below.]
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There turn out to be very few genuine free speech advocates. Nearly everyone who talked about "free speech" during the woke era is completely silent about it now. @TheFIREorg is a rare exception, but otherwise it's crickets.
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At the moment, I'm not impressed by it very much.
At best something good will elicit a "oh that's nice/cool", but the feeling of delight will last seconds.
Good music, on the other hand, can hold me captive forever.
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Peter Thiel famously asked: "What important truth do very few people agree with you on?"
Study David Deutsch's work and you will find several viable answers.
I've read David's books multiple times and watched dozens of interviews, here are 10 possible answers:
1. AGI will not happen by scaling compute
2. Children are not treated as people ("Taking Children Seriously")
3. People don't understand how learning happens (the bucket theory of the mind is wrong)
4. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics is plain wrong. Everettian multi-world is our best theory of physics.
5. Sustainability is not about "managing resources", it's about making as much scientific and technological progress as fast as possible.
6. There is no limit to what humans can do. We are not limited by our biology. It's a matter of having the right knowledge ("The principle of optimism")
7. Humans are cosmically significant.
8. Morality is objective, not subjective.
9. Beauty is partially objective.
10. Mathematics is not infallible at all.
I swear I'm just scratching the surface.
Watch this video & other interviews with @DavidDeutschOxf and you will find more.
I had the pleasure of sitting down with @DavidDeutschOxf in his lovely garden in Oxford a few months ago. Here’s our conversation.
Links to watch on YouTube or listen on popular podcast platforms below.
Timestamps:
1:01 - A tragic view of human history
7:04 - Why did it take so long for civilization to arise?
13:31 - Fallibilism
21:32 - Cultural relativism denies improvement
24:03 - Richard Dawkins and indigenous ways of knowing
26:49 - Chemical scum that dream of distant quasars
31:38 - The era of man
37:55 - People are unlike any other force of nature
42:51 - The dangers of regulating AI
48:09 - Are we running out of resources?
54:21 - Everything in existing educational theory is wrong
1:11:30 - When David met Richard Feynman
1:17:33 - Everyone is a Popperian
1:20:16 - Only progress is sustainable
1:26:00 - The biggest threat to Western civilization
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Stay strong Israel. Your British friends stand with you and we are praying for you.
Am Yisrael Chai. ❤️🇮🇱
IDF: A short while ago, Iran launched UAVs from within its territory toward Israel.
The IDF is on high alert and is constantly monitoring the operational situation.
The IDF Aerial Defense Array is on high alert, along with IAF fighter jets and Israeli Navy vessels that are on a defense mission in Israeli airspace. The IDF is monitoring all targets.
We ask the public to adhere to and follow the instructions of the Home Front Command and the official IDF announcements regarding the matter.
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Climate: The Movie It's alarmingly good!
Watch here youtu.be/55n-Zdv_Bwc?si=NGxz…
Some FAQ here tomn.substack.com/p/climate-… with more links.
Many thanks to @Martin_Durkin and @TomANelson for such a brilliant and timely tour de force!
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@rossjanderson Professor Ross Anderson, FRS, FREng Dear friend and treasured long term campaigner for privacy and security, Professor of Security Engineering at Cambridge University and Edinburgh University, Lovelace Medal winner, has died suddenly at home in Cambridge.
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Sometimes it feels like I’m the only non-Jewish person I know who thinks constantly of the hostages. It torments me throughout every day and I struggle to care about anything else. Instead of waning, this feeling grows *stronger* as days pass and I realize the hell they’re in.
Sometimes I catch myself feeling embarrassed to share *so many* tweets or instagram stories about 10/7 or the prevalence of antisemitism - like it’s not my place or it’s *weird* for a non-Jew to care *so much* … but then I wonder why every other decent person isn’t embarrassed and ashamed of themselves for completely ignoring it.
Earlier this week I noticed a character featured on a popular YouTube channel wearing a Magen David and considered taking a screenshot and tweeting praise for them … but then realized with horror that doing so (or even commenting on the video about it) would just mark them out for abuse from the hoards of relentless, psychotic antisemites online and that I should say nothing.
This is not normal. None of this is normal. And the gnawing, nauseating feeling that we are all living through times that are about to get much, much worse grows every day.
And while I can bear to suffer and fight in this life, I hold my children and beg God that they will not have to, that the children of my friends will not have to.
How is any of this really happening?
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Sometimes Generative AI is worth the hype:
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In 2017, I interviewed with Elizabeth Holmes to be Head of Finance at Theranos.
I'm convinced I learned more in those 45 minutes than I did in 10 years of school and work.
Today, she reports to federal prison to serve out an 11 year sentence for fraud.
Time for a story 🧵:
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h/t @ElsieTrubshaw
