He started getting high off his own supply and thinking he could do climate science better than climate scientists back in 2012.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nate-silver-climate-change_b_1909482
"[A]cademic publisher Taylor & Francis, which owns Routledge, had sold access to its authors’ research as part of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) partnership with Microsoft—a deal worth almost £8m ($10m) in its first year."
"I love trash, baka!"
— Asuka the Grouch
Artificial Intelligence professor Toby Walsh
Asking for a professor of genuine intelligence is just too much.
That seems suspiciously soon, but my impression is based on nothing but vibes — a sense that companies are still buying in.
For example, in the case of physics one could imagine working through very high quality course materials together with Feynman
Women of the world: um, about that
Apparently the "startup ecosystem" matters more than the ecosystem of, you know, actual living things.
These people are just amazingly fucking evil.
There is an entire second Earth right here on Earth.
"... Mister Bond."
I have a whole series of rants about that cat, starting with how it doesn't illuminate anything about quantum theory specifically — as opposed to probabilistic or stochastic theories in general — and culminating in "Hey, maybe we should stop naming things after pedo creeps."
According to one story at least, Wigner eventually concluded that if you take some ideas that physicists widely hold about quantum mechanics as postulates and follow them through to their logical conclusion, then you must conclude that there is a special role for conscious observers. But he took that as a reason to question those assumptions.
(That story comes from Leslie Ballentine reporting a conversation with Wigner in the course of promoting an ensemble interpretation of QM.)
There are some interesting ideas in that general direction (wrapping Bell inequalities within different new types of thought experiment, etc.), but some of the people involved have done rather a lot of overselling, and now bringing in talk of "AI" just obscures the whole situation. Which was already obscure enough.
This is Virtuosity (1995) slander