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If you want to hit productivity, tell people that they will pay less tax if they worth 50 hours a week to earn their salary than if they can do it in 40 hours a week. It's a ridiculous idea.

I’m getting tired of “experts” like this misunderstanding what they’re looking at. LLMs are giant databases of stuff HUMAN BEINGS have done. They are the EXHAUST of humanity. Prompts are database queries into EXISTING DATA. It’s a fuzzy search engine, not intelligence.

If this is true, using the best public estimates we have of LLM resource use, solving this Erdos problem took 0.6–6.3 kWh of electricity and about 3–31 liters of water. So that is less than three almonds worth of water and the electricity equivalent of 2-20 miles of EV driving.

just quick napkin math on how long this took (unless i missed where they said): the published CoT summary is 111,145 tokens long. it's really hard to say how much they summarized, assume 3x-20x reduction in tokens? and i'm assuming this is gpt-5.6 pro, so taking Artifical Analysis' benchmark of 51ms tok/sec at 100k input for gpt 5.5. underestimate prob hard to say this seems a bit low so going to multiply all of this by 2x then this probably took anywhere between 5 hours to 32 hours. so like $120 - $1000 in gpt 5.5 pro tokens whole point is not that long for a result of this magnitude!

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When it comes to housing, multiple things can be (and often are true at once): - it is wrong that working adults on decent salaries are struggling to find homes they can afford to rent or buy. In London, and other places. - social housing has an important function in our society. - there are some people living in social housing who are not working who could / should be - and there is a conversation about how to support them that needs to be had - there are some (41 per cent on average) people living in social housing who are working and their communities are richer for them living there as a result of affordable housing - there are some people who cannot work, they are still important to their communities and may add value in other ways - that said, the designation “economically inactive” may cover people who are performing vital labour such a care work - we need to build more housing, research from multiple independent organisations suggests that a lot of it needs to be social housing and we may now need creative tenures to get people who cannot afford to buy at current prices but earn well into new homes (like shared ownership but less riddles with problems) - retired people - whether they are homeowners or social tenants - add value to their communities even after the stop working. This includes but is not limited to helping with childcare which means young parents can keep working. - but it is also true that some older people are living in homes that are too large for their needs and a younger family could benefit from the home being freed up This list could go on and on. Housing policy involves contradictions and difficult conversations. But, communities are richer if they are mixed and varied with people from across different ages, incomes and backgrounds. If you have a housing policy paper that you want me to cover, send it to me. Regardless of political affiliation or persuasion, I will always read and cover if the research has been conducted properly.

55% of working-age social renters in London are working, a further 10% are studying, 6% are unemployed and seeking work and 1% retired. That leaves 27% not working and not currently seeking work.