Jamie Heagerty

@jo3hill @harry_qp Absolutely right. Transformatively improving planning, procurement etc would boost our standing in the bond market for those reasons. The rub is that incremental improvement wouldn't cut it.

@harry_qp Surely that isn’t right? Markets don’t just factor new borrowing commitments into their pricing? They’re also considering future ability to pay (affected by growth rates), and whether the absence of a policy (or an unrealistic policy) might demand future unplanned borrowing.

Super useful piece: “A Land Value Tax requires no new borrowing. Nor does capital gains reform, or NHS procurement reform, or closing Companies House loopholes. There is nothing there for the bond market to price.”

Everyone assumes RSI would lead to an intelligence explosion. Is that really the case? We tried to clean up the logic after 8 months of building RSI at the harness layer. Not all RSI is equal. We split it into 4 levels: delegation, net positive, ignition, and inflection. (1/9)

@LoftusSteve @ShakeelHashim @whippletom I believe Article 4 directions also make AC install subject to full planning permission, so it's not just listed buildings

Less than 1% of all buildings in Greater London are listed. When we didn't have the stupid regulation and rules on new builds we still didn't install aircon, and we wouldn't now for the same reason in my post. Builders could not justify the cost for the 10 days a year we want it, and there's no retail advantage in having it.

Jesus this is such a simple point, so easily understood. Why is everyone mad?

@matthewclifford @scrollprize Ahh, was following this. Just incredible - the greatest kaggle. Was always on the look out for problems in govt you could make a challenge like this

Extraordinary - what an amazing triumph of open science and collaboration by @scrollprize 👏

+ am in no doubt I have missed other incredible work the team have done. Even more excited to see what comes next!

tl;dr: great things will come of this. This lot have been building the future! Talent + exploratory research are so valuable for the UK. Credit to @UKRI_News @EPSRC and @SciTechgovuk

BOLD is brilliant from @KanishkaNarayan - just look at some of the things the founders have done 🧵

Very cool work with @GoogleDeepMind, @mhclg and @faculty_ai to help improve the planning system: deepmind.google/blog/unlocking…

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@rowlsmanthorpe If you form and bet on a team aiming for SOTA, you're ngmi. If you bet on someone w an all consuming obsession for AGI / aligned super-intelligence / open-endedness / etc...

Finally read this and it's as good as everyone says. The reason I'm not persuaded is because the question "What if a country REALLY tried to make a non-US frontier model?" isn't a hypothetical Someone did: the UEA If a place with bottomless sovereign wealth, the cheapest energy on earth and no elections can't manage it what chance do you give Europe?