Living on the west coast. We should leave this place better than we found it. Pro-reality, anti-BS.
BC, Canada
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Wishing good luck to our American friends. Exercise your right to vote and be heard. 🇺🇸
#Midterms2026
Refusing AI today is like refusing email and internet in the 90s.
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The anti-AI crowd is digging its own grave.
AI is inevitable. You can refuse to use it today, but eventually you won’t have much of a choice.
And when that day comes, you’ll be starting from zero while everyone who embraced it years ago already knows how to use it to their advantage.
The gap between people who use AI and people who don’t is already enormous.
And it’s only going to get bigger.
The longer you resist, the further behind you fall.
You’re not stopping AI. You’re just making sure you’re the last person to benefit from it.
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Mt Baker on a warm sunny November 1st morning in British Columbia, Canada. I love my home. ❤️🇨🇦
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As a computer scientist in AI (and also a tech founder), I see it the other way around.
People who have no idea how AI works trying to draw relations and conclusions about its abilities telling me I don’t know what I’m talking about.
My stance shouldn’t be controversial, AI is a computer program, a mathematical model doing large matrix statistics, and it is impossible for it to give rise to feelings, desires, emotions, awareness, understanding, or consciousness, and comparing it to biological systems is foolish.
And before you start telling me about the people who are saying it who are experts… they have an agenda.
Even the “Godfather of AI” (more like “God Complex”) is selling books and fear sells, as does popularity, interviews, and making batshit crazy claims.
Most of the tooling that people use to build and inference models is open source. You can read it yourself (if you know how) or you can have agent do it and explain it to you. I can assure you, its design is to emulate and generalize on its training data, not be alive.
So I’m curious how many people who know very little about how AI works will argue with me saying how little I know about consciousness, biological processes, or that my stance is somehow influenced by me being a tech bro / CEO in AI…
Many will cheer on the decline of home prices. Will they still be cheering when everyone is losing their jobs?
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Controversial take, and certainly a contrarian one, but I think the Bank of Canada rate hike was the right move.
I say that despite the terrible September employment report, which showed the economy losing 68,000 jobs after another 42,000 were lost in August, with unemployment rising to 6.5%. That clearly argues for caution. But beneath the headline, September’s weakness was disproportionately public-sector driven, while private-sector employment actually increased.
Meanwhile, credit conditions remain strong and money supply continues to expand. M2 by itself isn't a reason to raise rates, but when money and credit are expanding alongside resilient private-sector activity and persistent inflationary pressures, the combination becomes harder to ignore. The Bank is essentially choosing between two risks: overtightening into a weakening labour market or allowing relatively loose financial conditions to reignite inflation. I think the latter is now the bigger risk. If you disagree, look at the Canadian bank stocks.
BC Conservatives chose the normie to be leader and it worked. Could the fed Cons do the same?
“Doerkson’s win takes a sledgehammer to one of the proof points for Poilievre and his loyalists for staying: that there is no one else who can step up to lead the party and win.” hilltimes.com/2026/10/28/why…
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I have been following the American polling carefully . I can disentangle the dross from the reliable. It's increasingly clear that Trump is going to suffer a major defeat. For me the question shifts from will he be decisively bounced to what sort of anti democratic chaos will ensue
I see comments like this where left voters think the NDP is too right wing. And I see moderate voters who think the NDP is too left wing and Cons too right wing. And I see right voters who say Cons are too left wing. Rather entertaining.
So your team didn't win and now it's somehow the end of the world?
Get some fresh air. We still have Canadians working for Canadians in this beautiful place.
#bcpoli
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Turns out appealing to a broad cross-section of voters with a likable leader and a campaign low on grievance but focused on the economy while rejecting Trump and MAGA-style culture war battles paid off for the BC Conservatives with one of biggest majorities in decades.
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I miss the 2017 BC election. None of the parties’ candidates openly embraced homophobia, antisemitism, or antagonism to First Nations. The carbon tax was supported by the 3 main parties; the Greens (at the time) weren’t proposing to run a chain of grocery stores. #bcpoli