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James Lee
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Optimism. History. Politics. Epistemology. Popper. Deutsch. 🇬🇧
United Kingdom Katılım Ağustos 2021
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Hayek compares individualist & collectivist values:
“The virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now—independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness to back one’s own conviction against a majority, and the willingness to voluntary cooperation with one’s neighbors—are essentially those on which an individualist society rests.”
“Collectivism has nothing to put in their place, and in so far as it already has destroyed them it has left a void filled by nothing but the demand for obedience and the compulsion of the individual to what is collectively decided to be good.”
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Cynicism is easy. Mimicry is easy.
Optimistic contrarians are the rarest breed.
~Conjecture Institute Founding Donor @naval
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The nut zealotry of Ed Miliband
A new occasional series — No 3
Massive Silicon Valley company OpenAI has today paused its major Stargate UK data centre infrastructure project, citing high energy costs and the regulatory environment in the UK.
UK industrial energy costs are the highest in the world (thanks, Ed).
OpenAI and other AI giants are worried that Starmer’s desire (backed by Ed) to cosy up closer to the EU will mean AI in the UK coming under the Brussels’ regulatory regime, which is killing off AI projects in the EU.
Andrew Neil@afneil
The nut zealotry of Ed Miliband A new occasional series — No 2 At a time when global supply chains are vulnerable and we should be producing much more of our own food, E Miliband has today approved Springwell Solar Farm. It will cover seven square miles of prime Lincolnshire farmland. And the solar panels are likely to come from China (so much for green manufacturing jobs). Mili-Madness on stilts.
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The leveraging of international conflicts to appeal to sectarian voting by the Greens continues. Leaving aside the genocide lie being levelled against Israel.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 WATCH: Zack Polanski launches the Green Party’s local election campaign “We are calling on the Government to withdraw the UK-Israel trade agreement and end the genocide”
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“First we guess it…”
(Laughter)
“Well don’t laugh. It’s really true…”
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[Everyone is a Popperian in the areas where they excel].
Akshay@akshayvegesna
This is probably my favorite Feynman lecture -- Seeking New Laws, 1964. Basically him discussing how to develop the next great theory of physics. Really relevant today with everyone trying to create an automated Feynman for AI research
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Baroness @Fox_Claire asks: "Does the UK Need a US-Style First Amendment?"
"It is exciting to see this new initiative from The Adam Smith Institute: a proposed new rigorously drafted and legally sound Freedom of Speech Bill."
academyofideas.uk/p/does-the-uk-…
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People forget that in the 1990s, Britain was the fourth biggest manufacturing economy in the world.
Through the 1990s the number of jobs in manufacturing *increased*.
From 1993 to 1998, British manufacturing employment increased from 4.1 million to 4.3 million. Not unrelatedly, across the same timespan, electricity prices dropped by 22%.
Our manufacturing crisis today is above all an energy crisis.
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One of the best and simplest explanations of how juries keep politicians honest in this passage from Lord Judge (who was indeed a judge).
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There's not enough oil under the North Sea to affect oil prices...
...But there's enough to destroy the climate.
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ITVPolitics@ITVNewsPolitics
'Those people who say new exploration licenses will somehow create huge amounts of energy for us... I mean, they're just wrong' Ed Miliband told ITV News that drilling for oil in the North Sea wouldn't bring down Britain's energy bills
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We can choose to have cheap, abundant energy in Britain. Our current political class chooses not to.
Catherine McBride OBE@CeeMacBee
Here is my new paper for the Great British Business Council on the importance of oil, gas and coal to the UK economy. The UK’s industrial decline is not inevitable, but the result of decades of deliberate policy choices that have undermined domestic energy production and driven manufacturing offshore. Lowering UK employment and tax revenues, while increasing the UK trade deficit. The paper also includes a plan to reverse this. gbbc.uk/uk-deindustria…
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Why do they keep saying this??
Every member of this Cabinet comes from a middle-class profession: a lawyer or worked in politics, public affairs, or finance.
Not a single one has a working-class occupational background.
This is the *least* working-class Labour Cabinet ever.
The Labour Party@UKLabour
This Labour Government is the most working-class government in the history of the UK.
Faringdon, England 🇬🇧 English
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Partnering with the zero growth museum continent. For what?
Their cheap abundant energy?
Their dominant defence sector?
Their trillion dollar tech companies?
Oh wait.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer says he will form a new partnership with the EU in the coming weeks "As the world continues down this volatile path, our long-term national interest requires closer partnership with our allies in Europe and with the European Union"
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BREAKING:
Two British men, aged 19 and 20, and a 17-year-old boy with dual British and Pakistani nationality have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit arson with intent to endanger life following an attack on the four Jewish community ambulances, the Metropolitan Police said.
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Restore is a flash in the pan. Ethno-nationalism does not sit well the vast majority of the British population. It would cost them in an election.
Benedict Spence@BenedictSpence
For all the talk about Restore being a very loud, largely irrelevant online fringe, 4-5 percent is… not nothing. Enough to really hurt Reform in marginal seats, at any rate. Could easily evaporate come election time, though.
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The greatest, freest, and most prosperous civilisation in history so far.
Arthur MacWaters@ArthurMacwaters
Western civilization is awesome, actually
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