Chess Grandmaster & 3-time British champion. Author. This is now a chess account. For philosophy, Perspectiva etc, see my Substack, The Joyous Struggle 🙏
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If you’ve ever wondered what I’m working on, or what @Perspecteeva is responding to, you might like this half-hour mini-documentary called *Living in the Metacrisis* which is beautifully produced by Katie Teague.
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Are you relaxed, cautious, bemused or alarmed about AI existential risk?
P-doom scores are too simplistic.
A proper measure of how we feel about would be multidimensional, but considering it as 2 main variables -#alignment & #RSI - is a step forward, so I made this chart.
#AI
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"If we had ham, we could have ham and eggs; if we had eggs."
The claim of AI leaders that we could have superintelligence and that it might be good if we have alignment is doubly nebulous. We have neither.
I geek out on this here:
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Marie Bernard
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My first ever selfie on Twitter, but I trust you'll forgive me. #rsaclimate https://nitter.net/t.co/tJFRYMT50Z
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Bloomberg Opinion
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Inspired by #StAndrewsDay
“To define ‘nation’ is to commit a political act. The etymology relates to birth, and that permeates many of the attempts at definitions, though it also feels like the idea of nation gradually outgrows them all.”
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A good moment to pretend you are learning foreign languages as an excuse to watch the same goal over again.
🇧🇷 "Golazo!"
🇫🇷 "C'est incroyable!"
🇦🇷 "Gol! Gol! Gol! Gol!"
This is how the world reacted to that Scott McTominay goal!
📺 Watch more: scotfa.co/WorldComms
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Not too shabby at all.
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This would be good news for those who migrated from Twitter to Substack but kept their accounts here.
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I took Vishnu(9) & friend to a chess camp near Brompton Cemetery earlier today. I remembered that there is a famous chess player there - Johannes Zukertort (28.Qb4!!) - so we paid homage.
Kudos to @stuthefox for his work in 2012 that led to restoring the gravestone.
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“In a world that can seem shallow, chess meets a longing for depth. In a world that can feel lonely and confusing, chess offers the experience of shared meaning and mattering. In a world of shrill whataboutery, chess offers rule-bound intellectual clarity”
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Doing some tidying up.
I came upon this gift I received last year. The bubbly was a thank you for two impromptu analysis sessions to a crowd of fifty or so at The London Junior Chess Championship.
The note made me feel seen and appreciated and very glad to have gifted my time.
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Nearing the end of a holiday in St Ives, Cornwall, England. The chess set is mostly for Vishnu(9) but I confess it still makes me happy to look at it.
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I took Vishnu(9) for a junior session at The Mind Sports Centre in London and was pleasantly surprised by their selection of vintage books.
I may have bought a few…
Who could resist Larsen’s invitation?
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Important and widely relevant on the mass demonstrations in Serbia, from @Jonathan_Rowson : "What do all these people want? The real demand is terrifying for those in power: "Can you please ensure that our institutions work as they are supposed to?"
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