Mark O’Leary

Head of network access for Jisc, the UK NREN. As such, responsible for eduroam and govroam in the UK. This is my personal account. He/him/his.

[Mark O’Leary @markoleary]

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. The smart left some time ago...

[Mark O’Leary @markoleary]

@ma1ybe Sitting doesn’t cure nausea, and it isn’t visible. Traditionally standing for a pregnant woman exists because they suffer back pain and their balance is compromised. This is civil and the man should have done it. But for equality a woman should stand for eg an obese man.

[Mark O’Leary @markoleary]

You know that “I” is a pronoun, right? I’m just checking because you used it twice in a post about not using pronouns. Are you OK?

[Bay County Brian @SquidwardBrian]

@JeanHatchet @Serena_Partrick

[Mark O’Leary @markoleary]

Humanity’s epitaph

[Mark O’Leary @markoleary]

@goodperri @JohnJamesNI Please explain all of the following straightforwardly…

[Mark O’Leary @markoleary]

@robertwiblin @ESYudkowsky Given that this corpus of benevolent AI sci-fi has programmed *us*, what effect is it having as part of the training data for future ASI? Will it emulate it or stage a teenage rebellion against it?

[Mark O’Leary @markoleary]

@RachelK01840150 @HazelAppleyard_ You didn’t see where the poster said the guy in official uniform unlocked the door? Don’t let bias drop your reading comprehension…

[Mark O’Leary @markoleary]

@knhomeschoolmom @HazelAppleyard_ But that is exactly how they described it. Someone in official uniform *unlocked* the bathroom - ie it was single occupancy and locked. They clearly did want to enter and took 30s to leave, which is a long time for a mistake.

[Mark O’Leary @markoleary]

@HerTrisMagistus @Byron_Wan So might unprovoked punitive tariffs. Is this a path you really want to go down?

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

“It was an accident!! He’s autistic!!”

[Mark O’Leary @markoleary]

@MikeStuchbery_ Whether you think @elonmusk was referencing the Roman empire or 1930s America, you're missing the point. Dumb NeoNazis across your nation are thinking "There's our signal!" & getting to work. There'll be more lynchings & beatings from tonight...

[Mark O’Leary @markoleary]

Isn’t it called collusion when a group of companies get together to fix the price of something? $1M is clearly the price they’ve settled on for whatever it is they are buying… Time to dust off the Sherman act.

[Sam Altman @sama]

funny, they never sent me one of these for contributing to democrats...

[Mark O’Leary @markoleary]

Trump’s favour is for sale, so of course execs are going to buy it. If your president doesn’t have ethics, why would your CEO? /s

[AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ @AISafetyMemes]

Sam Altman in 2018: "The first thing AI ever really did was make Trump win the election."

"We are a frog in a pot of water not noticing it's boiling."

"The algorithms are already much more in control of us than we realize."

[Aleph @woke8yearold]

"Magic isn't real, magic isn't real!" I continue to cry as I use light to cut runes smaller than a human hair into melted sand in order to summon alien intelligences to do my homework

[Marc Perrone ✊🇺🇸🇨🇦 @Marc_Perrone]

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills:

Australia 0
Canada 0
Denmark 0
Finland 0
France 0
Germany 0
Iceland 0
Ireland 0
Italy 0
Japan 0
Netherlands 0
Norway 0
Portugal 0
Spain 0
Sweden 0
UK 0
United States 530,000

There is a lesson here.

[Mark O’Leary @markoleary]

Do my genes deserve to be signal-boosted? Looking at my health/intelligence/etc I’d say no. Also, I am not some brainless gonad pumping genes into the future; I’d want to know and raise any child of mine. Superguy, ask me if I want the best human I know of to have 1k kids instead

[Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️ @ESYudkowsky]

A shady-looking superbeing approaches you in a dark alley, and credibly promises that if you pay it a dollar, you will have 1000 children. You'll never know them, and they'll never know you, but they'll share half your genetic material. Do you accept?

[Nick Tyrone @NicholasTyrone]

They still don’t understand what Brexit means, do they.

[Mark O’Leary @markoleary]

@MrJamesMay If you’ve got £100 in the bank but it only makes a £5 per year in interest, can it really be worth £100? Well yes, it can if you decided to spend it. Just like that £3M in land, buildings and equipment is worth what you could sell it for.

[Humans Being Wholesome @UNIVERSE_FEEDS]

@nocontextmemes 😭😭

[Tsarathustra @tsarnick]

Eliezer Yudkowsky says it would cost less than the Persian Gulf War to deproliferate AI technology today but this is increasing and soon it will cost more like World War II, but "if everybody's going to die otherwise, you just do what it takes"

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

I can't figure out if vaccines work or not.

Tough one. I can see why RFK Jr is so concerned.

Need Sherlock Holmes on this one.