Jamie Makin

NHS worker. BACP accredited psychotherapist and clinical supervisor.

[Nick Kapur @nick_kapur]

Compelling essay by sci-fi writer Ted Chiang on why LLMs are nowhere near consciousness, but why it serves the interests of LLM companies to constantly suggest that they might be.

I've pulled one quote below, but the whole article is worth reading.

[Jamie Makin @Jamie_Makin]

@stephensajdak Finally a win for Ditko.

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Guys, is it woke to die from heat stroke leading to multi-organ failure?

[D D @Lapthornsgrave]

@PolitlcsUK He obviously has never been to a glass foundry or a steel works. If he had is way and other lefty loons none would be made ever

[Jamie Makin @Jamie_Makin]

The reason everyone is miserable is because of Jean-François Lyotard's seminal 1979 The Postmodern Condition, and not, in fact, because they can’t afford to feed themselves.

[Times Radio @TimesRadio]

"Have we become a country that just can't get on with stuff?

Stig Abell argues that postmodernism is to blame for public dissatisfaction with the government.

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@kateferguson4 Murdoch journalist breeds talk of being thick as a Boxing Day turd.

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@MikeDrucker “…so that I can spend more time surrounded by naked men. “

[Tom Watson @tom_watson]

He is many things but Keir Starmer is not a liar.

[Jamie Makin @Jamie_Makin]

@FergusCraig I’ve bought all your audiobooks if that’s any compensation.

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@FergusCraig Thanks for recommending The Bee Sting on the Richard Herring podcast. Just finished it and it was worth the 600+ pages.

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Check out Herbie's video! #TikTok https://t.co/FUpkFH8hqw

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The Catholic Church being left of the Labour Party isn’t something I was expecting, but it’s nice to have a change.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Absurd and inhuman violence is spreading ferociously through the sacred places of the Christian East, profaned by the blasphemy of war and the brutality of business, with no regard for people’s lives, which are considered at most collateral damage of self-interest. But no gain can be worth the life of the weakest, children, or families. No cause can justify the shedding of innocent blood.

[Jamie Makin @Jamie_Makin]

@Shrink_at_Large They’re never too high risk for trainee therapists to see them for no pay though. Funny that.

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@DaftLimmy

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@DaftLimmy @realDonaldTrump Imagine two old men, bringing about nuclear Armageddon.

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@acechhh She

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@DaftLimmy

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@JacquiDeevoy1

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@NoJusticeMTG

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@DaftLimmy

[Anisopoikilocyte @Anisocyte]

I’m grateful to @RoyLilley for writing on the chaos the NHS has faced at the incompetent hands of @wesstreeting

I especially want to draw attention to this. We have a medical system largely run by those who don’t understand Medical Practice.
The results are predictable.
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