In MD’s post about the mushroom compost his first comment was that it now comes in bags, whereas previously it was delivered loose. The way the post read was that that was the main driver for change.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
The UK is hosting a conference on AI and the future at Bletchley. The EU and the USA are both at the partyand both are actively considering lesgislation to manage AI. The UK hasn't even started, having only recently realised it might be a good idea to manage AI rather better than social media in their many and varied forms have been allowed to evolve unchecked.
The UK govt sees AI as being something n which the UK can lead the world, given its history of techy excellence and innovation. Maybe so but it no longer has a place at the EU decision making table and has little influence on what the USA will decide.
As for the advice and opinions Monty peddles on GW it is natural that beginners will take it as gospel until experience tells them otherwise so he and the editor/director need to be more careful about accuracy. More experience gardeners will be guided by heir own experiences and gardening situation.
My own garden is such that little of what goes on in Monty's much colder, wetter garden is relevant but I find plenty of interest in the gardens visited and what the other contributors are doing and saying.
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"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
The UK is hosting a conference on AI and the future at Bletchley. The
EU and the USA are both at the party and both are actively considering
lesgislation to manage AI. The UK hasn't even started
The Uk are always so far behind the curve with tech regulation, partly because they are terrified of regulation and partly because policy-makers, civil servants and politicans are clueless and switched off about tech. The fact that so much of the UK has had such dismal internet provision since day one, is evidence of this complete glaze they have with tech. No national drone policies, no tech in schools policies (they didn't see any of these coming as problems), even no united national recycling programmes, I think is evidence of tech dismissal.
Tech is expensive, complicated, fast-changing, diffused in governance, mostly privatised, the domain of young people (pretty much, in design, ambition, early adoption), older voters don't get the preoccupation with it and therefore tend to dismiss it. The desire to "leave it to the ghost in the machine. The markets will sort it" is the horrible approach they usually seem to take.
I would rather people in the public eye were a bit over the top when it comes to environment as it can give the ordinary public a kick up the arse to do a tiny bit more.
I strongly disagree with that approach. Overstating the case for anything is far more likely to put people off than to encourage them.
My attitude to MD and GW (or anything else) is to take one or two new, useful things, ideas, plants away from each episode. And I always pretty much get that. Yes MD does have to be careful with fact checking the stuff he says before he says it. But no, he is not god.
AI is learning from us - and not just the good things.
AI will evolve to learn from itself. We can't control its direction.
There is an excellent Storyville documentary called iHuman on iplayer. I would highly recommend it to anyone wanting some insight into the topic. One contributor says AI may come to regard us as we regard pets and other animals. It may be fond of us, but might not adapt its desires in our best interests. AI will need a lot of power. Maybe it will cover vast areas in solar panels, at the expense of crop growing areas, much as we have covered habitats with concrete and destroyed rain forests etc to fulfil our desires.
Monty's delivery of Council compost, his chosen mulch once he stopped using Mushroom compost.
As a confirmed Europhile, reading this thread helps me understand why we voted for BREXIT. People were sick to the back teeth of being told what to do, what they were doing wrong and that they were stupid. It was their chance to rebel.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Better than nothing, but not enough to pat themselves on the back and sit around in self-congratulatory smugness ... IMV.
Why on earth would anyone want to sit around in self-congratulationary smugness? That is not their aim. They are trying to make a dent. The UK is not
As I say, better than nothing ... but so far short of what is needed. Discussions on whether autonomous weapons should be allowed started back in about 2015 and no decision has been reached. Seriously, it needs very little thought to realise having AI solely in charge of deadly drones etc is not a good idea, but vested interests get in the way. And then the vacuum gets taken advantage of and civilians suffer.
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East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
The UK govt sees AI as being something n which the UK can lead the world, given its history of techy excellence and innovation. Maybe so but it no longer has a place at the EU decision making table and has little influence on what the USA will decide.
As for the advice and opinions Monty peddles on GW it is natural that beginners will take it as gospel until experience tells them otherwise so he and the editor/director need to be more careful about accuracy. More experience gardeners will be guided by heir own experiences and gardening situation.
My own garden is such that little of what goes on in Monty's much colder, wetter garden is relevant but I find plenty of interest in the gardens visited and what the other contributors are doing and saying.
Better than nothing, but not enough to pat themselves on the back and sit around in self-congratulatory smugness ... IMV.
There is an excellent Storyville documentary called iHuman on iplayer. I would highly recommend it to anyone wanting some insight into the topic. One contributor says AI may come to regard us as we regard pets and other animals. It may be fond of us, but might not adapt its desires in our best interests. AI will need a lot of power. Maybe it will cover vast areas in solar panels, at the expense of crop growing areas, much as we have covered habitats with concrete and destroyed rain forests etc to fulfil our desires.
Why on earth would anyone want to sit around in self-congratulationary smugness? That is not their aim. They are trying to make a dent. The UK is not
Monty's delivery of Council compost, his chosen mulch once he stopped using Mushroom compost.
As a confirmed Europhile, reading this thread helps me understand why we voted for BREXIT. People were sick to the back teeth of being told what to do, what they were doing wrong and that they were stupid. It was their chance to rebel.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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