Interesting Links for 20-11-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Is My Toddler a Stochastic Parrot?

(tags:ai learning humans )

2. Myth-busting the Van Halen brown M&M Story

(tags:bands music history myths )

3. No, "the Church" did not kill Joan of Arc

(tags:religion history Europe France uk )

4. Thread of wheelchair representation so far in televised Doctor Who

(tags:disability drwho TV )

Comments

[calimac]

And after all the things the Tory government has done, and then after they got roundly criticized for them said they hadn't meant to do it, or it was some flunky's fault, you're going to make an argument like that?

[andrewducker]

It seems obvious to me that there is a difference between "These people who were members of a giant sprawling organisation, and clearly hid their actions from the hierarchy, acting against its rules, with no evidence that they were encouraged to do so by the leadership" and "the organisation itself".

If they *had* been following the rules, or there was any evidence that they were being encouraged from the top then that would be different, of course.

[calimac]

It seems obvious to me that there is an enormous incentive on the part of an organisation that is doing B to pretend that they're doing A.