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Escaping the permanent underclass by building a trove of productive experiences before nothing means anything ever again.
"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...
The year is 2032. The only remaining job done by humans is Vending Machine Operative.
The three leading AI vending machine start-ups have an aggregate valuation of 150% of world GDP.
You see this again and again in British political life: the dream of "impartial" technocracy just leading to power vacuums and drift
Very easy to overstate care wage problem - vast majority of carers were British until recent 3rd world replacement program starting c. 2022. Historically this is a job that has paid a slight premium to e.g. supermarket work and would probably clear again if that was restored
If you think about the cost of immigrant workers in the care system in terms of wages plus long term welfare/benefits for them and family with ILR....it might be significantly more financially efficient for the state to top up care worker wages to the extent that our unemployed fancied it. No one's that into it for 20k. What about 50k? 75k?
The last pillars of the at ease with itself groovy baby 90s UK are crumbling before our eyes
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It is a relief that Britain seems to have avoided this by and large. Craft beer has settled into quite a nice niche here, generally quite tasteful brands like Cloudwater or Burning Sky sold in smart, independent shops, the preserve of sensitive, bearded types.
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POV: you're a slopulist who doesn't realise that both the Christian Democrats AND the Social Democrats have called for a renewed crackdown on illegal migration and commitment to social integration.
Winter wear has taken such a downgrade over the last 30 years. Population looks so drab now. North Face and its consequences.
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We have nationwide rent controls now.
This tribunal didn’t just stop a rent rise within a tenancy, it cut the rent to below what had been agreed between the landlord and the tenant at the start of the tenancy based on a judgement of what the property is worth.
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everyone stopped having three kids except the very rich
