This is more easily executable with a three-wish genie, but it's good to be prepared for all circumstances.

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Not to go all Robert Gordon but the potential benefits as a % of GDP are also much smaller. Going from no internet to internet is a much bigger bang for your buck than going from internet to AI

This is a good blog post (which people should read) and I attach some random musings about how we got to this point in the thread below. Housing cost problem is a wholesale regulatory failure.

I decided to make a long blog post combining general sociological things I am aware of with personal observations of cultural and lifestyle differences between the UK and USA.

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OK, some more considered thoughts on the Industrial Strategy published on Monday and my comment on it.

The first, inescapable point to make about this thing is that it is *huge*. Not "Bidenomics" huge, which translated to £ would have meant £100bns. But in detail 1/

www.gov.uk/government/p...

The real AI arms race is between one another 🥰 nymag.com/intelligence...

In Venice. I know vaporettos are just water buses but why do they not *feel* like buses no matter how much you use them?

That’s what comes to mind when I read articles about AI soon replacing white collar jobs. We could jumpstart productivity and reduce errors by replacing outdated software with something reasonable. But leaders are swayed by promises of an AI-solution that doesn’t exist and isn’t in development.

The last fifteen years of social media have persuaded too many people that having opinions on everything is both necessary and rewarding.

Let me assure you it is absolutely neither of those things.

An important life skill to develop is the ability to not have an opinion on a thing.

This is because there are many things which it is not necessary for you to have an opinion on.

A related skill is recognizing that the list of things on which an opinion is required is different for everyone.

Same, tbh.

The damage that half-remembered Schumpeterian “creative destruction” has wrought on mental models of economic change is profound. It’s basically been forced backwards in people’s heads to “destructive creation”. You don’t need to break stuff to encourage progress.

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"Although most proposals for planning reform are aimed at reducing opportunities for judicial review, or removing grounds for objections to be made, at present the success rate for proposals is actually very high"

Always thought provoking

"How could you expect AI to 'be able to do whatever a human being might wish to do' when the vast majority of things human beings wish to do..only exist to the extent that they satisfy a desire—not to solve a problem, but simply to have an emotional experience?" www.the-hinternet.com/p/agi-is-imp...

I WANT TO BELIEVE IN ABUNDANCE

I wrote my review of the new book, what I liked, what political opportunities it presents, and where I was left unsatisfied.

Here are some sections, and you can read the whole thing here.

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JanGan at his best here on UK economic growth, which nobody with clout in Britain is actually willing to trade their pet project for.

"There is always another consideration that takes precedence, whether geopolitical, ecological, cultural or egalitarian."
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In economics, editors, referees, and authors often behave as if a published paper should reflect some kind of authoritative consensus.

As a result, valuable debate happens in secret, and the resulting paper is an opaque compromise with anonymous co-authors called referees.

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As many people here are pretty new here is another aspect of the pretty early Internet feel of Bluesky - that it's not doing much local compliance yet. This will change once it starts to make money.