Warren Pyke

Barrister since 1993. Practice in New Zealand and Cook Islands.

[Warren Pyke @PykeWarren]

LLM are painfully inconsistent, incapable of distinguishing fact from belief, frequently wrong, overconfident

This is not the AI we were promised | The Royal Society https://t.co/wx1ft4uRXS via @YouTube

[Warren Pyke @PykeWarren]

The Uncomfortable Truth About AI “Reasoning” | World Science Festival https://t.co/0KabXWtkHs via @YouTube

[Warren Pyke @PykeWarren]

“We are ruled by cretins and cowards.”

[Austen Ivereigh @austeni]

“The Vatican has replaced Silicon Valley as ground zero for disruptive thinking. The Catholic church … is becoming a beacon of light in a very dark world…. The pope has become a reassuring – and all too rare – voice of moral clarity.” https://t.co/Y85YTArice

[Warren Pyke @PykeWarren]

https://t.co/dE6DjOopIo

[Nisargadatta Maharaj @Nisargadatta_M]

Insanity is universal. Sanity is rare. Yet there is hope, because the moment we perceive our insanity, we are on the way to sanity. This is the function of the Guru — to make us see the madness of our daily living. Life makes you conscious, but the teacher makes you aware.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

Plans released for a $16 billion mile-long ship capable of carrying 80,000 people.

The 'Freedom Ship' would be home to about 50,000 people, with space for 10,000 tourists and 20,000 crew members.

"The Freedom Ship is envisioned as a permanently mobile city at sea designed for long-term residence rather than short-term travel," the company says.

The ship would be about 8 times the size of the current largest ship in the world, the Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas.

The plans include a 15,000-seat stadium, schools, colleges, shops, clubs, a water park, a music hall, museums, parks, and more.

The ship, which would run on nuclear, would be too large to dock and would remain in international waters.

Freedom Cruise International says it would go around the world every two to three years.

Insane.

[Warren Pyke @PykeWarren]

@JosephMooneyMP Of course he’s going to say this, he’s in it for profit. AI is already running into choppy waters-business can’t afford it, people are more efficient often and civil society isn’t going to tolerate yet another DotCom bust.

[Warren Pyke @PykeWarren]

@SimeonBrownMP Good idea for families

[Warren Pyke @PykeWarren]

International institutions are becoming silos of unreason, bereft of decency.

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

Iran has just been nominated to preside over the UN Committee for the protection of women's rights, human rights, and the prevention of terrorism.

YES, IRAN. And it was supported by the United Kingdom, Spain, and France.

This is not a joke. It's real.

- @isaacrrr7

[.stuff @vintagestuff4]

"The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology.
And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall."

- Edward O. Wilson

[Warren Pyke @PykeWarren]

A materialist was always going to buy into AI consciousness- because everything is a phenomena of matter, physical laws and random selection.

[Trevor Tomesh ☕ @realDrTT]

Indeed. I never thought I’d see the day when Dawkins is talking to ghosts and The Pope is saying it ain’t so.

[Jack @jackcoder0]

Two economists just published a mathematical proof that AI will destroy the economy.

Not might. Not could. Will — if nothing changes.

The paper is called "The AI Layoff Trap." Published March 2, 2026. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Boston University. Peer reviewed. Mathematically modeled.
The conclusion is one sentence.
"At the limit, firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand."

An economy that produces everything. And sells it to nobody.
Here is how you get there.
A company fires 500 workers and replaces them with AI. A competitor fires 700 to keep up. Another fires 1,000. Every company is behaving rationally. Every company is following the incentives correctly. And every company is building a trap for itself.

Because the workers who were fired were also customers.
When they lose their jobs faster than the economy can absorb them, they stop spending. Consumer demand falls. Companies respond by cutting costs — which means automating more workers — which means less spending — which means more falling demand — which means more automation.

The loop has no natural exit.
The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income. Capital income taxes. Worker equity participation. Upskilling programs. Corporate coordination agreements.
Every single one failed in the model.
The only intervention that worked: a Pigouvian automation tax — a per-task levy charged every time a company replaces a human with AI, forcing them to price in the demand they are destroying before they pull the trigger.

No government has implemented this. No major economy is seriously discussing it.
Meanwhile the numbers are already tracking the curve. 100,000 tech workers laid off in 2025. 92,000 more in the first months of 2026. Jack Dorsey fired half of Block's workforce and said publicly: "Within the next year, the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion."
Nobody is doing anything wrong. Companies are following their incentives perfectly. That is exactly the problem.

Rational behavior. At scale. Simultaneously. With no mechanism to stop it.
Two economists built the math. The math leads to one place.

Source: Falk & Tsoukalas · Wharton School + Boston University ·

[Trevor Tomesh ☕ @realDrTT]

Pope Leo is NOT on an anti-AI crusade.

He is on a pro-technology that serves humanity crusade.

[Warren Pyke @PykeWarren]

“Far from ushering in an ‘era of abundance’ as promised by Silicon Valley futurists, AI risks bringing a new age of mass poverty – and with it, a new kind of revolutionary politics.”
— John Gray, political philosopher and author https://t.co/MMI68ZqBH9

[Valerio Capraro @ValerioCapraro]

The Pope is making exactly our point. LLMs “may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand.”

This is the core epistemic fault line.

Most AI evaluation is still based on one assumption: if a system statistically approximates human behaviour, then it is close to human intelligence.

But approximation is not intelligence.
Simulation is not understanding.

LLMs can produce the right answer without knowing why it is right. They can simulate empathy without feeling. They can imitate judgment without responsibility. They can generate coherent explanations without having a world to which those explanations are accountable.

Stop confusing behavioural similarity with cognitive equivalence.

Human understanding is embodied, affective, relational, motivational, and normative. It is not just the production of plausible text.

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Full paper in the first reply

[Warren Pyke @PykeWarren]

AI will never know the joy of a puppy let alone replicate the power of the natural world or the touch of the wind, the sun and the ocean.

[Warren Pyke @PykeWarren]

@TomDavidsonX AI can describe the taste of the pear; but cannot taste the pear. It is cleverness produced by digital programming, not intelligence or consciousness.

[Warren Pyke @PykeWarren]

@haider1 ‘Super-cleverness’ won’t get the vote, and if its owners promulgate implementation of such dystopian methods governments will be bound to act to prevent tyranny, and uphold democracy and the rule of law. Power is with the people, not ‘HAL’ and it’s greedy owners.

[Warren Pyke @PykeWarren]

@mikepompeo The problem was that there was no strategy in place to address the obvious move on the strait of Hormuz and the threat to gulf states-what is the point of having such expensive armed forces if they can’t address such obvious tactics by a second rate power?