Josh Tulloch

yap yap and more yap

[Josh Tulloch @tfortulloch]

double shift this week!

last week saw an simply incredible gathering of ere-defining talent and ingenuity @DeepTechLdn by the infatigable @lachlan_xyz

twas an enormous pleasure to MC the main summit

and an even greater pleasure to shake my ass at the afterparty

[CZA + @czamaru]

Britain's greatest export might not be financial services.

It might be ambitious people.

The government's accepted brain drain as inevitable for far too long.

We refuse to accept that.

A new conversation is calling

& it's time we answer ↓

[Josh Tulloch @tfortulloch]

my first tweet in my founder twitter rebrand??

doing a thing! 👇

[The Bureau @thebureauhq]

$20,000 on the clock

every minute, the pot goes down

the quicker you build, the more money you win

not a hackathon

a recruitment exercise to face the greatest threat humanity has ever known

we're looking for the fastest minds alive.

https://t.co/rxR3M9sAju

@SuperteamUK

[🌞 Dan Brockwell @DanBrockwell]

normal people: i like hanging out with my friends

startup people: bullish on irl communities in the ai era

[Josh Tulloch @tfortulloch]

calling it now. raindance will be the song of summer 26.

LEAN WITH IT, ROCK WITH IT

[Róisín Lanigan @rosielanners]

amazing to think we likely won't see another simultaneous lent, chinese new year, ramadan and disgraced member of the british royal family being arrested in our lifetime

[Josh Tulloch @tfortulloch]

oluwahilary

[Josh Tulloch @tfortulloch]

Uncle Hilary

[Variety @Variety]

Hillary Clinton arrives to the Venice Film Festival. https://t.co/eGfbM8pqv2

[Josh Tulloch @tfortulloch]

The statute of limitations on Splitwise is 6 months. I don't make the rules sorry

[Dan Goss @DanGoss222]

🚨New research out!🚨

We ran the first ever segmentation analysis on public attitudes to inheritance tax

Turns out Brits have more complex views than headlines suggest. If politicians are bold they could save the £7bn of public funds that IHT brings

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https://t.co/P4jLbIOS62

[michael wave @michael___wave]

it rules how in about 18 months supermarkets turned loyalty card schemes into a food pricing extortion racket where they just make up entirely outrageous prices for things if you happen to walk into their shop as a non member, as though buying food is a private members club

[Josh Tulloch @tfortulloch]

The only acceptable nationalism is London Nationalism

[Josh Tulloch @tfortulloch]

Qualia mate

[AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ @AISafetyMemes]

How do people read this then just... go on with their day as usual?

“25 AI agents inhabit a digital Westworld, unaware that they are living in a simulation. They go to work, gossip, organize socials, make new friends, and even fall in love.”

Here’s a mindblowing example of how autonomous AIs are now, and how ridiculous it is to say that the AIs "only do things we tell them to do”:

POV: you tell the Westworld character “Isabella Rodriguez” to host an entire Valentine’s Day party in two days. This is a complex act, certainly something only humans, and not toasters, can do, right?

- Isabella proceeds to invite friends and customers when she sees them at Hobbs Cafe or elsewhere.
- Isabella then spends the afternoon of the 13th decorating the cafe for the party.
- Maria, a frequent customer and close friend of Isabella’s, arrives at the cafe. Isabella asks for Maria’s help in decorating for the party, and Maria agrees.
- That night, Maria invites Klaus, her secret crush, to join her at the party, and he gladly accepts.
- On Valentine’s Day, five agents, including Klaus and Maria, coordinate to show up for the party together at the right time (5pm), and they enjoy the festivities.

You told Isabella to host a party, but then she - and the other AIs - went and made a million other decisions entirely on their own - things you didn't explicitly tell them to do.

Autonomous AIs are here.

And -- tapping the sign -- this is another example where science fiction is becoming reality, and why “you watch too much sci-fi” is a stupid dunk.

This digital Westworld - “Smallville” - is now open source, meaning there will soon be thousands of these Westworlds, with thousands or millions of autonomous AIs populating them.

Makes you think, doesn’t it?

“Almost as interesting as the 7.8 billion inhabitants of Largeville, (almost) all unaware they are living in a simulation. Each has a unique personality and backstory.” - @Erikbryn

[Charlie @CharlieSosnick]

kind of dope that this might be the profound revelation in human history and i'm hearing it on the toilet and immediately scrolling past to look at something funnier

[Thankful Musgrave 🦃 @profmusgrave]

taking off my submarine expert cap, putting on my Kremlin expert cap

[Josh Tulloch @tfortulloch]

Either this is something or it is nothing!

[Dan Goss @DanGoss222]

Over £100bn is given each year in inheritance - only £6bn is taxed

& tax generally isn't charged on estates until they are worth £1m+

In a cost of living crisis, it's wrong to ask that wealth transfers over £1m pay some tax to help fund public services?

https://t.co/vOSr1dipMq

[Cllr Ben Goren @BanGaoRen]

There it is folks. Not only are better things regrettably not possible there will be no deviation from the path set down in 1979 or turning away from terrible anti-democratic legislation just introduced. A party that exists mostly just to manage voter expectations into the grave.

[Josh Tulloch @tfortulloch]

It's a disgraceful tax on privacy.

Set up a clubcard with false info and give them worthless data.