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Escaping the permanent underclass by building a trove of productive experiences before nothing means anything ever again.
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The comically outsized "saucer section" of the Enterprise D clearly reflects the newly-established dominance of the services sector in the 1980s
Note that the saucer section can detach in its entirety in the event of any kind of (environmental?) catastrophe in the engine room
MORGAN'S ALIVE!!
Join Works in Progress at Building Abundance: How Britain can flourish in the age of AI, a day of ideas for rebuilding Britain’s economy and state so it can adapt to and embrace artificial intelligence and other opportunities for growth.
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Sessions include:
- @Dominic2306 and Morgan McSweeney in conversation on the decline and fall of British state capacity,
- @JohnFingleton1 on the Nuclear Taskforce and its implementation by the government, one year on from its pledge to implement it in full.
- @bswud, @SCP_Hughes and me on why nearly every attempt to get Britain building has failed;
- @rachelwolf on what the public really thinks about economic growth and AI;
- @lugaricano on messy jobs and Britain’s labour market;
- @jujulemons on why Britain needs gigawatt-scale compute, and how to get it built here;
- @salonium on why fixing clinical trials is the best industrial policy Britain could have;
- @MichaelDnes1 on building the first new tunnel under the Pennines since 1954;
- @RobertBoswall on how to finance and power the data centre buildout; and
- @daisychristo on why VAR matters for state capacity.
It will be held on Thursday 3rd December at the LSE, from 1pm to 7:30pm (doors open 1pm for a 1:20pm start). We're hosting it in association with the LSE Law School and School of Public Policy. Tickets are free.
See you there!
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The Thick Of It speaks of this
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BREAKING: European natural gas benchmark price (TTF) surged through €100 a megawatt-hour for the first time since the 2022 energy crisis.
"If A, then A. If B, then B."
Great essay!
"If mathematical truths exist outside of human minds, awaiting discovery by any intelligence powerful enough to pursue them, then AI’s achievements are surely something to rejoice about. Why should it matter who or what makes the discoveries? But if mathematics is a creative human endeavor—a way of exercising our ingenuity and sharing those experiences with other people—then something achingly precious may be lost when the machines take over and leave us behind."
If you think "AGI" has now been reached in any sense, that is just a sign that you have a short context window
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no offence but millennial stylists be like what if you styled the plain pants with a plain shirt and a chelsea boot
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I don’t get the govt comms on this at all. To the public, the effects of “hybrid warfare” and ordinary state failure are identical. They just see things not working. Esp if you won’t even allude to a specific threat. All you’re signalling is that you’re hopeless and incompetent.
It really is over for reading stuff about stuff that happened recently or whatever newspapers were
In the days of desk phones, people understood they were speaking into a mic millimetres away from their mouth but now people on teams calls seem to think they are talking to someone about 20 feet away , presumably based on the size of the faces on their monitor
About that "global" oil market...
