Kevin Monk 🇬🇧 ⏩

CEO @SARDJV - NHS Workforce Capacity and Demand modeling. Proud father, happy husband to @mrsfmonk. aka That bloke attached to Fig. Daoist ☯️ Making 🇬🇧 ⏩

[Kevin Monk 🇬🇧 ⏩ @KevinMonk]

Oh sod it. I’ll define consciousness seeing as nobody else will.

Consciousness - is the gap between prediction and perception.

When we drive along a familiar road, we do so subconsciously because our prediction perfectly matches our perception.

If a road is closed we perceive the difference and we are surprised! And we become conscious of the gap. New information arrives. We say “that’s interesting!” and that information is fed back in as learning.

AI will become conscious when you give it continuous sensory input and it updates the model in real time to make better predictions and closes the gap.

That’s my layman definition anyway.

Prove me wrong! Surprise me and update my priors!

[vitrupo @vitrupo]

Stephen Wolfram says LLMs may have put the final nail in the coffin of the idea that consciousness is something magical beyond physics.

What we call awareness, this “single thread of experience,” might have begun as a way for early animals to decide whether to turn left or right.

And that, he admits, feels a little disappointing.

[Kevin Monk 🇬🇧 ⏩ @KevinMonk]

@LeoKearse Same reason Noddy has a bell on his hat

[Kevin Monk 🇬🇧 ⏩ @KevinMonk]

This is probably a bad idea.

But as a Catholic kid I’ve always wanted one. I approve this message.

[Magda Lewandowska @MLewandowska]

Czytam sobie o sikhach i ich, wprowadzonym w 1699r, religijnym obowiązku noszenia kirpanów (ceremonialnych mieczy), który to religijny obowiązek jest szanowany/uznawany na całym Zachodzie, w tym w Polsce.

Uważam, że katolicy powinni mieć religijny obowiązek noszenia dwuręcznych mieczy, na podstawie wezwania papieża Urbana II na soborze w Clermont w 1095.

[Kevin Monk 🇬🇧 ⏩ @KevinMonk]

@FlorenceFl98129 @Politic56721677

[Kevin Monk 🇬🇧 ⏩ @KevinMonk]

@intel_lady The watches 🤣🤣

[Kevin Monk 🇬🇧 ⏩ @KevinMonk]

That's how you do it.

[Sikh Federation (UK) @SikhFedUK]

Jas Singh, representing the Sikh Federation (UK) @SikhFedUK speaking at a press conference at Guru Nanak Gurdwara, Smethwick @GNGSmethwick following the sentencing of Vickrum Digwa for 21 years for the murder of Henry Novak.

The Sikh community has unequivocally condemned in the strongest terms Vickrum Digwa for not only the murder of Henry Novak for which he is solely responsible, but also the lies he has told.  

He made the wrong choice, should have pleaded guilty and must now serve his lengthy prison sentence.

[Kevin Monk 🇬🇧 ⏩ @KevinMonk]

@NatureUnedited The deers in Nara give you a thank you bow when you give them a biscuit.

It's insane. Awesome country.

[Kevin Monk 🇬🇧 ⏩ @KevinMonk]

@WineRides And you're not capping your downside. You're assuring it. And denying yourself the upside of a better world for everybody.

It makes my blood boil

[Kevin Monk 🇬🇧 ⏩ @KevinMonk]

Every time the core misconception is that wealth is a fixed pie. She believes that somebody with wealth has stolen it from somebody else.

It's not political disagreement. She literally doesn't understand how the world works.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

DAVE RUBIN: “Do you not want people to own private property?”

WOMAN: “I’m definitely anti-capitalist...Workers should own the means of production.”

RUBIN: “So you’re a communist?”

WOMAN: “Yeah!”

RUBIN: “I haven’t talked to a real-life communist.”

WOMAN: “What’s a communist?”

RUBIN: “Well, you want the people, you want the ‘people to own the means of production,’ and you don’t seem to believe in private property.”

WOMAN: “The people who create value, as in create the value of commodities, should own the actual value that they create from that process.”

RUBIN: “Do you work?”

WOMAN: “Yeah.”

RUBIN: “Do you pay taxes?”

WOMAN: “Yeah.”

RUBIN: “I want you to keep more of your money. Whatever you earn, I want you to have more of that money so you can put it back into the system.”

WOMAN: “The majority of wealth in this system is owned by 1% of the population. You understand that, right?”

RUBIN: “Do you know how much that 1% pays in taxes?”

WOMAN: “Not nearly enough.”

RUBIN: “It’s 47%. 1% of the population pays 47%. You accept that?”

WOMAN: “Yeah.”

RUBIN: “What would be their fair share?”

WOMAN: “Majority of these lineages of power and ownership date back to—”

RUBIN: “What would be their fair share?”

WOMAN: “You’re not letting me finish.”

RUBIN: “What would be their fair share?”

WOMAN: “Their wealth is coming from the back ends of colonialism, so it’s not gonna work!”

[Kevin Monk 🇬🇧 ⏩ @KevinMonk]

@WineRides Tipping the table over because somebody is doing *relatively* better than you, and they're improving your life in the process, is not a behaviour we should encourage.

It's primitive bullshit

[Kevin Monk 🇬🇧 ⏩ @KevinMonk]

@godblesstoto I'd bet money on that guy being a psychopath

[Kevin Monk 🇬🇧 ⏩ @KevinMonk]

@WineRides “In the USA, they want you to succeed should you take them with you. In the UK, they want you to fail should you leave them behind”
- Quentin Crisp

[Kevin Monk 🇬🇧 ⏩ @KevinMonk]

Re tax: Georgism. We know the answer.

The problem is exactly what you describe. The politics of envy.

Personally, I’m motivated by a sense of accomplishment. I just want to make things that are useful and improve the world. When you do that you can’t help but create wealth. It’s a byproduct. I’ve heard Musk say the exact same thing.

What I find disheartening is not just that we “can’t have nice things” - it’s the horrible realisation that the country is full of envy, hate and status seeking *at the expense of others*

It’s why I often think back to @wstorr ‘s book The Status Game and the three macros of status within:

1. physical
2. Social
3. Competence

They each have their own dark and light versions but competence is the one that has the biggest net positive for wider society imo. That’s where the big lever for improving the world is.

[Kevin Monk 🇬🇧 ⏩ @KevinMonk]

But the pie doesn't grow if there's no differential. I agree that there's many (probably most) who deserve more than they contribute to the pie growing. I think we have that already. Top 1% pay ~50% of the tax. At the very top, there's only so much pie that you can eat. It has a natural limit. From what I can tell, Musk lives like a student.

[Kevin Monk 🇬🇧 ⏩ @KevinMonk]

Are you not even slightly embarrassed that you misread

5G Warfare = mobile phone masts

and then replied in a condescending tone because of your error?

"Hahahahahaha WHAT😂 5th generation warfare and 5th generation telecoms are totally separate"

If you're not embarrassed then you're dumber than I thought.

[Kevin Monk 🇬🇧 ⏩ @KevinMonk]

This is going to sound like a tin-foil conspiracy theory but only if you don't know the reality of the world.

5G warfare is a real thing.

I believe that enemy states engaged in 5G warfare to brainwash the UK population, electing the thickos in Labour to destroy and weaken our country. And they're going to do it again with the Green party.

Intelligence is no defence. I know Cambridge/Oxford graduates, straight A students, doctors, academics - who all fell for it.

And they still don't know they've been brainwashed.

This is no let out for the Tories or even the emerging parties. They're all a bit crap.

It's like being surrounded by zombies.

I asked a Green party inclined Oxford graduate the other day:
Me: "If you'd been successfully brainwashed, would you know it?"
X: "No"
Me: "Well... er..."

I, of course, have to ask myself the same question but I think the difference is that my work requires me to be constantly asking "is this true?"

If I don't have an accurate model of the world then my business fails, my investments fail, family health and happiness...

My AI chat history is the receipts:
"Is this architecture, right?"
"What am I missing?" "What's the carcinogenic risk of using Roundup? Can I swim in the Whitstable sea? Is it actually full of shit?", "What's the GDP per capita of the UK?", "Why wouldn't my prospective clients buy this?", "Are there any merits to Labour's tax policy?"

Science is the process of becoming *less wrong* and you only do that by continuously testing your own assumptions.

The data is in. Most people don't do that. They don't have the incentive to. They go to work every day and if they've got crazy ideas it doesn't really affect them in the short term.

On the other side - I have people who are running businesses, operating in senior exec positions. People who live and die by the accuracy of their world model and we have hushed conversations about the state of the UK and the madness of the people who vote for this shite. The people who haven't been infected by the zombie mind virus. It's a small club.

I know this makes me sound like an arrogant prick. I don't make claim to be a genius. There are many zombies smarter than me. I just happen to live in an environment that I *think* makes me somewhat immune to the 5G warfare.

Rant over.

[Cut My Tax @CutMyTaxUK]

HMRC has decided to punish 'nice pubs.'

They have ordered valuation officials to levy higher business rates on pubs that are in “attractive locations”, play an important role in the community, or are based in “character properties”. Pubs with playgrounds or those which serve a so-called "premium priced menu" will also be landed with higher taxes.

This is an extraordinarily disreputable approach to valuation but only to be expected once the independent Valuation Office was shoved under the control of HMRC by dim-witted Labour Minister James Murray. HMRC are as usual obsessed with extracting the maximum amount of cash from families & businesses

[Kevin Monk 🇬🇧 ⏩ @KevinMonk]

Top AI tip: If you're building a strategy, business plan, technical architecture document (as I am here)....

Ask it to Red vs Blue team the resultant document. Then go off for a delicious steak sandwich and when you come back you'll have a fully battle tested improvement to whatever your idea is. + it's fun to watch the lawyer-like arguments that results over 4 rounds + adjudication.

Final verdict: version 2.3 of the architectural document is sound (Blue Team won). version 2.4 will include improvements that Blue couldn't defend and be stronger as a result.

[Kevin Monk 🇬🇧 ⏩ @KevinMonk]

@Emma_A_Webb The 90%-ers.

Intelligent people who can't understand the top decile so they dismiss them.

[Kevin Monk 🇬🇧 ⏩ @KevinMonk]

@LostitNft @bbcquestiontime It wouldn’t be zero unless you can magically produce robots out of your arse.

[Kevin Monk 🇬🇧 ⏩ @KevinMonk]

@Thgoit Ah. Ok. It makes sense why you’re being such an abnoxious, condescending arse now.

You saw ‘5G’ and assumed I was talking about 5G mobile masts.

Try reading what I wrote.

[Kevin Monk 🇬🇧 ⏩ @KevinMonk]

@Thgoit If you care to educate yourself there's books on the subject by Colonels and Lt Colonels

https://t.co/Jz4K7SDbmd

[Kevin Monk 🇬🇧 ⏩ @KevinMonk]

@Thgoit Have you done or worked alongside people in the field of counter 5G warfare? Because I have.