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Fair enough although 3rd was only partly luck, and bear in mind Odegaard has missed an absolute sitter.

Lots of good things in this game, but was very much one for the neutrals. I thought Kamara was superb and my MOTM. But shipping 4 goals against an Arsenal side that have looked a bit toothless in recent weeks is a big disappointment

Good half, game plan working. Looking forward to seeing Duran cause them some problems off the bench

This is the Luddite Fallacy. What actually happens is new tasks, jobs, products, etc are created by the innovation. Innovation may kill specific types of jobs, but it hasn’t historically harmed employment in general.

Yeah it’s just the next step along from software engineers having several StackOverflow tabs open in Chrome, which would have been baffling to a time travelling programmer from the 1970s

Game's gone and went years ago if it was ever here

The way I see it is that the evolution of jobs tends to be from people who are very good at memorising/processing information, to people who are good at mediating. Eg accountants used to be people who were efficient at maths, bookkeeping, etc. Now so much of that stuff is handled by the software, and more of the accountant’s value is about how they deal with the client and advise on specific business problems. Or taxi drivers used to memorise locations, but now freely available sat nav has made that pointless. I wonder if it will be the same with doctors. Currently it’s still a profession where a lot of rote memorisation and repetition is central to the training, and that’s why you have these senior doctors who know their field inside out but have no social skills, because they’ve been selected for “exam brain”. AI tools may help to humanise the doctor’s work, by taking on some of the heavy lifting with diagnostics, obscure diseases, that kind of thing, and freeing up more of the doctor’s brain to deal with the patient on a personal level.

And then everyone clapped?

Also worth noting that journalists and LinkedIn influencers are deliberately trying to find weird / scary / novel stuff to hype up and generate engagement. There’s lots of very cool stuff you can do, eg massively speeding up programming tasks, or summarising a huge pile of documents into something digestible. AI won’t replace white collar work, it will just change it, and change the type of person / personality who does well in the economy. In the same way that cars, washing machines and computers didn’t end work.

I think a lot of the dystopian stuff is mostly sleight of hand or a willing audience… or just bad behaviour from human actors using AI tools in shitty ways. I don’t think AI itself tends towards dystopian outcomes. The fact you can generate things that look like human dialogue doesn’t mean we are much closer to humanoid AI. It’s just another step along from beating Garry Kasparov at chess. It wows and disturbs everyone for a while and then people learn how to use it, and it becomes part of everyday life for better or worse. We’re still nowhere near so-called AGI (artificial general intelligence). What’s happening is hyperspecialised statistical / machine learning models are being built that are very good at specific pattern matching or pattern generation tasks (object recognition, generating images, translating language, etc) but nobody has really progressed anything that can actually analyse concepts across different domains like humans do.

https://www.rya.org.uk/blog/cold-shocking-truth Maybe puts a bit more context on how dangerous any body of water is at this time of year.

It’s relatively common, unfortunately. Not as common as various other methods thah don’t need listing, but yes people walk into rivers / lakes / the sea to take their own lives. Difficult but not impossible, and in freezing cold water there’s the cold water shock and / or hypothermia to factor in.

Just seen a Tweet where a guy posts a picture taken from her Facebook and claims it shows evidence that her partner was abusing her (it doesn't). Also features the two kids without any attempt to hide their identities. There are some sick, thick people in the world. Feels like we need to rewrite laws on this so voyeurs can be punished for turning cases into social media whodunnits. I get that a certain amount of media coverage and transparency is good for the legal process and for public confidence, but there's a level some people go to where it's basically stalking / harassment / defamation.

“We discreetly let everyone know that she was a suicidal alcoholic”… hmm. Nobody really comes out of this case well, it’s all very sad. The people I have at the bottom of the pile though are the ones who think they’re entitled to minute-by-minute police updates on any case they deem interesting. Can see why the police have lost patience.

Yeah exactly, she was talking about the impact of online Miss Marples being unprecedented, not the circumstances of the case itself

Yes, 100%, completely.

It's a panic move because it hasn't contributed to resolving the investigation at all, but has helped to cover the police's arses.

I think all of the following are true: Peter Faulding is a clearing in the woods Internet sleuths are thick scumbags Lancs Police have **** this up in terms of public statements and media handling There is something odd about this case But most likely it’s still a sad missing person case where they’re just struggling to locate the person / body

Don’t disagree with any of that. It would be good for the world if they achieved that with a democratic political setup.

Russia had a little over half our GDP per capita, and a worse Gini (inequality) coefficient in 2018. And prison labour, extrajudicial executions, etc etc. Being angry about what’s happening in the UK is normal, but thinking life here is comparable with Russia is ignorant.

No. Lol.

Russia’s demise has already happened. It’s an impoverished basket case economy with a small wealthy elite

I’m more saying it wasn’t feasible within fairly unavoidable parameters (not triggering nuclear war, etc). Obviously in an ideal world we’d want Putin to just back down and turn Russia into a liberal democracy. I don’t know how useful it is to think of this in terms of “wants” when as @blandysays they don’t necessarily align with outcomes (I want a massive cock for example).

NATO has explained why the quick win wasn’t an option, though - because it would potentially result in WWIII and nuclear fallout - and because the pro-Ukraine alliance isn’t actually that strong once you move beyond the Baltics and start relying on countries like Germany / France / etc. The comparison with Isis is actually quite appropriate - having the kit to beat an inferior force isn’t the same as actually being able to do it. You need local knowledge, you need legitimacy, you need political will, etc. It’s pretty obvious why we haven’t just carpet bombed the entire invading army and nuked Moscow. Why the conspiratorial tones?

wasn’t saying it was meaningless or not concerning. Just pointing out it’s as simple as play well and xGA goes down, play badly and xGA goes up. And problem with mean average is of course that it is skewed by extreme cases (our xGA in Liverpool and City games was >3.5), which doesn’t have that much relevance to a league season where you get same points for winning 6-0 or 2-1. Our median xGA in the past 9 PL games was 1.22 against Spurs. So yeah, data not meaningless, but easy to get lost in the weeds. 9 games is a very short run of fixtures (with a World Cup and transfer window in the middle).