James W. Phillips' Newsletter

September 2024

Letby trials #1 - Lucy Letby’s right to a fair trial must be defended

Some background on becoming involved in the trials of Lucy Letby

Sep 25, 2024 • 

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February 2024

Vignettes (HT5) - New blog series - Metascience, a new Society of Technological Advancement (SOTA), and silencing of biosafety

“Technol­ogies are always constructive and beneficial, directly or indirectly….yet their consequences tend to increase in­stability…....

Feb 12, 2024 • 

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December 2023

Rising political activism in prestige scientific journals and magazines

A preliminary look at the change in political content of some prestige scientific journals and magazines over time

Dec 10, 2023 • 

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November 2023

New applied metascience lab - Future House announced + some thoughts on UK applied metascience

Some very good news amidst the madness…….

Nov 1, 2023 • 

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August 2023

My Metascience 2022 talk on new scalable ‘technoscience’ laboratory designs, and potential upcoming ‘New National Purpose’ reports

New National Purpose #3 + my talk at Metascience 2022 on the need for a new kind of laboratory structure to unleash creative discovery and invention to…

Aug 1, 2023 • 

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July 2023

UCL Talk - Government, science, and the need for creative destruction

ARIA, Lovelace, UK Tech position, Government reform - my talk at UCL and the Research on Research Institute

Jul 30, 2023 • 

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June 2023

A New National Purpose: AI

Blair-Hague report #2

Jun 13, 2023 • 

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May 2023

S&T: 'A conversation with Sydney Brenner: How academia and publishing are destroying scientific innovation' - Elizabeth Dzeng's 2014…

One of my early heroes was Sydney Brenner.

May 16, 2023 • 

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S&T - Bret Victor, Realtalk and the ‘laboratory of the future’ vision

‘Communal computing and the 21st century laboratory’

May 14, 2023 • 

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April 2023

Neuroscience/AI - Can rats ‘think’? A paper by Chongxi Lai and colleagues on cognitive teleportation in rats [8 min read]

Chongxi Lai’s thesis work, Jedi rats, and brain-machine interfaces.

Apr 10, 2023 • 

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Responses to comments on our democratic control of AGI paper

On March 14th I published a co-written proposal on this blog on ‘Securing liberal democratic control of AGI through UK leadership’. In brief, it called…

Apr 1, 2023 • 

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