Love to wake up to "Your Government Are Embarrassingly Suggestible Rubes" news

[pikesley@mastodon.me.uk]

Love to wake up to "Your Government Are Embarrassingly Suggestible Rubes" news

> In her lecture, Reeves will promise to achieve "the fastest AI adoption in the G7" thanks in part to government investment in British tech. She will add that quantum computing is to create 100,000 UK jobs

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0k16zdr1r1o

[mawhrin@circumstances.run]

@pikesley its bad when one can't tell if they're that stupid or that corrupt.

[rgarner@mastodon.social]

@pikesley we need a Secretary of State for Sarcastic Business Scepticism can you get yourself elected

[pikesley@mastodon.me.uk]

> Quantum computing is considered much more powerful than regular computing because it can store many times more information, which is why some see it as the next big breakthrough in technology and key to economic growth

What the fuck are you talking about?

[tommorris@mastodon.social]

@pikesley I’m sure some busybody is banning ed25519 and ecdsa to protect the children.

[tommorris@mastodon.social]

@pikesley if a journalist can’t understand it, it must be the future

[pablomartini@climatejustice.social]

@pikesley

Its snake oil verbage!

Cons all sorts of politicians & old presidents!

[scmbradley@mathstodon.xyz]

@pikesley knowing about stuff is such a curse when that stuff is reported on by journalists.

[uastronomer@mastodon.monoceros.co.za]

@pikesley That's as funny as a nearby metro approving a new AI mega-datacenter because "The AI tools will help us to prioritize maintenance tasks by identifying potholes and leaking water pipes".

As if they don't already have that information, as if they can't already just buy that service from any service provider in any data center in the world, and as if that data center is being built especially for them and not merely on their land.

[pikesley@mastodon.me.uk]

"Quantum is an area within AI" is something I have just heard The Chancellor Of The Exchequer Of The United Kingdom say on the radio news

[kimsj@mastodon.social]

@pikesley
Translation: The real world is going to shit thanks to my ineptitude. I don’t have a scoobie how to fix it, so I’m going to retreat into fantasy.

[nicovel0@mastodon.social]

@mawhrin @pikesley our politicians are quantum, so they can be in both states at the same time

[dch@bsd.network]

@uastronomer @pikesley ... or .. hear me out ... crazy talk ... they could *just* fix the potholes and leaky pipes directly.

[jtonline@mastodon.me.uk]

@pikesley wait, what? Did they give Kwarteng his job back?!

[pikesley@mastodon.me.uk]

Their own Fiscal Rules compel them to believe Any Old Shit Told To Them By A Carnival Barker

[jtonline@mastodon.me.uk]

@Nicovel0 @mawhrin @pikesley I am clearly quantum as well:— I am laughing and crying at the same time

[pikesley@mastodon.me.uk]

Imagining a past iteration of me seething over his cornflakes as Harold Wilson was bollocking on about The White Heat Of Technology

[pikesley@mastodon.me.uk]

@jtonline isn't he shilling fucking Crypto now?

[pikesley@mastodon.me.uk]

I guess at least he was coming at it from The Left

[jtonline@mastodon.me.uk]

@pikesley really? Bit behind the times if he hasn't moved on to Quantum Large Language Crypto.