@SamoBurja Yes. For 99% of things the hard bit isn't the code, it's figuring out what code to write. Models will get better at that bit but it's a way off (context: I spend £x00s a month on LLMs for building software)
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it's gonna get real Hobbesian, real quick around here
England Katılım Kasım 2022
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If it is the frontier models themselves that are writing most code in the near future:
Is there any reason we don't expect frontier AI models to simply obliterate the application layer altogether?
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What are the people who believe the source of all morality is European legislation gonna do when we leave the ECHR? Where are they gonna turn for guidance??
BBC Newsnight@BBCNewsnight
“I want zero illegal migrants." “You do not speak for the British people." Sir Jacob Rees Mogg, Conservative peer, and Rachel Blake, Labour MP, clash over their views about small boat crossings. #Newsnight
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Is there a small silver lining watching the just stop oil people understanding what happens if you do indeed just stop oil.
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@BernoulliDefect @s8mb @surplustakes Symptom perhaps of the fact that lots on the unrestricted migration side care more about being seen to be nice/friendly/progressive rather than the holistic impact of the policies they advocate for?
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@s8mb @surplustakes It’s counter intuitive but the most restrictive (and lowest utility) option of just never issuing the low wage visa is seen as the least ‘mean’ while the most generous (multiple residency years, welfare for any children, etc) followed by a visa non-renewal is seen as meanest
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Many problems with the immigration system would be solved if we required immigrants to be net fiscal contributors, giving visas on that basis, and sending home people who were not. "Half of all migrant children currently live in poverty" is a terrible indictment of who the system is selecting and allowing to remain here.
Emily Thornberry@EmilyThornberry
Half of all migrant children currently live in poverty - an already shameful statistic. But the Earned Settlement model will see that poverty prolonged for 90,000 children in working migrant families. That's why my community says the Government must think again.
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The Left simultaneously argues:
- all immigration is economically beneficial and culturally enriching
- immigrants are poverty stricken and we’re morally rotten if we don’t spend a fortune on them
Their deliberately dishonest thinking will bankrupt us.
Emily Thornberry@EmilyThornberry
Half of all migrant children currently live in poverty - an already shameful statistic. But the Earned Settlement model will see that poverty prolonged for 90,000 children in working migrant families. That's why my community says the Government must think again.
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This man is genuinely, staggeringly stupid.
Imagine having the chutzpah to consider yourself an intelligent, informed commentator on ANYTHING - especially economics - while making bald-faced assertion like "London has no rent control".
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We don't realise just how poor we are in Britain compared to America.
Sam@Discoplomacy
Early OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla proposes income tax be removed for Americans earning less than $100,000. In the UK context, that’s about £75,000. 93% of the UK’s working population earns less than that a year, based on Govt figures.
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We analysed every property resale across London in 2025 using HM Land Registry data.
Overall loss rate: 12.9%
But some areas are 2-3x higher:
E14 (Canary Wharf): 34.3%
NW9 (Colindale): 30.6%
E16 (Royal Docks): 28.9%
SE10 (Greenwich): 28.7%
W14 (West Kensington): 24.7%
Which area do you want us to look at next?
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“In engineering, you are peer reviewed by reality”. From Rory Sutherland, in this week’s Spectator.
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One of the things I am most pleased Pimlico Journal has done is popularise the stat that 47.6% of social housing in London is occupied by a household with a foreign born household head. This stat is watertight, comes from impeccable data, and is obscene.
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Another example: 93% of the cars bought by the government subsidised Motability scheme are manufactured outside of the UK
What this means is that we’ve spent a Crossrail amount of money (£16B over a decade!) on juicing demand for foreign manufacturing (automation heavy, high tech) and domestic low productivity growth industries like car dealerships, vehicle maintenance (low automation, low value), and insurance.
If the £~3.5B/year spigot of government money going to Motabilty was turned off, all of the jobs in dealerships and insurance it ‘created’ would fade, and its car fleet would age and depreciate. Despite spending a biblical amount of cash, I doubt any sustainable industries have been created, and it’s long term impact pales in comparison to other spending options that will exist in decades to come, like Crossrail or Manchester’s tram network.
bernoulli_defect@BernoulliDefect
Idea: we are poor because we embarked on an extremely expensive low income demand subsidy regime that either went out the door via imports, or was spent on low productivity growth industries.
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I'm midway through Fischer's Albion's Seed (cracking book) and it's very sad to think that for the median Brit, neverending grievance grift like this has completely replaced learning about the genuinely incredible histories of our ancestors.
Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️⚧️@LeftieStats
‼️POLL | Should UK pay reparations to countries affected by transatlantic slave trade? (by ethnicity) -- White -- ✅ Should: 19% ❌ Should not: 66% -- Black -- ✅ Should: 71% ❌ Should not: 15% Poll: @YouGov, 11-17 April 2025
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British history seems to consist in large part of us making the world objectively better for everybody, getting no credit for it, and then once our empire was exhausted the same people we helped cynically lying about our history in order to get money from us.
Robbie@Robbie_Reasons
As Ghana calls for reparations and the left wing media rush to reinforce the white guilt some may feel, it is notable that none use this photo of a British Sailor removing the chains from a freed slave. Great Britain ended the slave trade and paid in blood and coin. No charge.
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Countries that unambiguously are trying to destroy Britain should face the consequences: absolute hostility from every organ of the state, suspension of all aid, suspension of all visas for any reason. We should not be pretending this is acceptable or normal.
BBC News (World)@BBCWorld
Ghana demands compensation for slavery in landmark UN vote bbc.in/4rRUjny
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The moment you finally realise you’re leading the most authoritarian government in our country’s history:
1️⃣ Introducing an official definition of “anti-Muslim hostility” that silences legitimate criticism of religion — 18 years after Parliament abolished such laws.
2️⃣ Removing the right of most defendants to have a jury trial, in the biggest assault on English liberty in over 800 years.
3️⃣ Requiring pub landlords to monitor customers’ private conversations to protect staff from remarks, comments, or jokes they may find “offensive”.
4️⃣ Clamping down on lawful social media posts, arresting an Irish comedian for gender-critical tweets and even threatening to ban access to X in the UK.
It’s not a great look, is it, Prime Minister…
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15 years later, the FT has finally disabled my free login from university. Cruel and unfair.
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