John Myers

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John Myers

John Myers

@johnrmyers

Director @yimbyalliance. Also bsky: https://t.co/JU59hIdzV7. Housing: https://t.co/E7dafl5Evt

London, England Katılım Mart 2009
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John Myers
John Myers@johnrmyers·
These slides from the excellent @lugaricano are a must read for any European policymaker who seriously wants their country to thrive as AI advances. We urgently need to ensure that our economy is ready to take advantage of AI or we will be left behind. In a rapidly changing and uncertain world, the only way to ensure security is to ensure that we have the means to pay for it. imfs-frankfurt.de/fileadmin/even… I would add one point: if AI develops to a point where it is a ‘gross substitute’ for human labour (elasticity of substitution > 1), the human labour share of GDP may shrink. At that point there is no reason to assume that GDPs per capita in developed countries will cluster as they have. Being left behind could mean being left very far behind indeed.
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Lukas Freund@_LukasFreund_

@lugaricano argues: If AI raises global interest rates by boosting productivity, but Europe fails to adopt AI, Europe imports higher r without higher g -- a path to fiscal crisis.

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Michael Dnes
Michael Dnes@MichaelDnes1·
This week government tried to put HS2 back on track. Unsurprisingly they want to look ahead. But if we want to save the future of British infrastructure, we need to look back. We now have a lot of people saying that the reason HS2 went wrong was that bad politicians led it astray. Terrible decisions were indeed made; but to just blame that is to let one very obvious, very guilty-looking group of people off the hook. And thanks to what has been released as part of the reset, we now know more about what they did. Why has it taken nearly twenty years of effort to make high speed trains in Britain seemingly impossible? limbostructure.substack.com/p/the-biggest-…
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John Myers@johnrmyers·
HMG spends vast amounts defending judicial reviews which then fail. That raises bills and makes infrastructure unaffordable. This should mean we can spend those sums on improving the proposals to benefit the environment, and to deliver for working people: gov.uk/government/new…
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David Lawrence
David Lawrence@dc_lawrence·
What is the climate impact of data centres? The answer depends on where you are. In a new report, @freddieposer & I find that Britain is one of the greenest places in the world to build data centres. Why is this? Because the UK has made greater strides towards decarbonising the grid than the vast majority of advanced economies. This matters, because global data centre demand is highly mobile and inelastic. If a data centre isn't built here, it is likely to be built in Germany, the US or Ireland – which would all counterfactually produce more emissions.
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David Lawrence
David Lawrence@dc_lawrence·
This is a worrying decision from the ICO which raises some big questions about where power sits in our democracy. Ministers & civil servants should be allowed – indeed, encouraged! – to use AI tools to test ideas and ask questions without fear of being FOI-ed. Instead, this will have a chilling effect, and stop public servants from using the best technology out there. Yet again, ALBs that were designed to protect democracy are instead preventing the state from delivering for ordinary people.
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Julia Willemyns
Julia Willemyns@jujulemons·
Every time I ask an AI researcher if they are bullish on British talent, they say that – despite all the headlines about new offices and expansions – all the best researchers they know are leaving the country (unless they have families here). I genuinely don't know if this is leaky X vibes or something the data would bear out. Sadly we have few good ways to track top-talent migration in or out of the country.
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James Howat
James Howat@1jamesHowat·
@johnrmyers @timleunig Do we also need to believe covered interest parity no longer holds? Theory suggests markets expect sterling to weaken given the interest rate differential, which will make those eur bonds pricier to pay off in £ terms
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John Myers@johnrmyers·
I enjoyed this as ever @timleunig but I would worry about whether we will realistically hold the line at 10% and whether this could risk a slide into ‘original sin’ of issuing entirely in EUR because it looks cheaper in the short run? ft.com/content/e709d8…
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Tim Leunig
Tim Leunig@timleunig·
I don't think we would ever do that - there are some buyers who want sterling assets, so sterling gilt prices would fall if we issued less, making further moved to Eur debt pointless.
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I enjoyed this as ever @timleunig but I would worry about whether we will realistically hold the line at 10% and whether this could risk a slide into ‘original sin’ of issuing entirely in EUR because it looks cheaper in the short run? ft.com/content/e709d8…

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John Myers@johnrmyers·
@timleunig Yes I agree - but we might move a large fraction into EUR, or USD if USD rates are lower
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John Myers@johnrmyers·
(or indeed just mainly in EUR)
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Julia Willemyns
Julia Willemyns@jujulemons·
I am looking for someone who is excellent on clinical trials and understands the British system to do some work with us scoping how to get clinical trial abundance in 🇬🇧 Hoping the X network helps me here!
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Matt Clifford
Matt Clifford@matthewclifford·
The idea that ministers' LLM usage is FOI-able is insane. Government should have contested this way more strongly. Clearly should have fallen under the policy development exemption, otherwise we more or less guarantee no minister will use AI at a time that adoption is key!
Matt Clifford@matthewclifford

@JuliaLopezMP Unfortunately, in one of the most absurd rulings I can remember, ministers' ChatGPT usage is deemed to be FOI-able. This is obviously hugely corrosive and more or less guarantees that no minister will (say they) use AI. See e.g. gov.uk/government/pub…

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Anya Martin
Anya Martin@AnyaM8_·
Some exciting personal news - I’ve joined @yimbyalliance as Policy Lead. After a few years out of housing I am BACK in the game! Very excited to be getting involved again in the fight for better, more affordable housing 🏘️
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Michael Wiebe
Michael Wiebe@michael_wiebe·
When we upzone one parcel from house- to apartment-zoning, there are two effects: 1) own-parcel: the upzoned parcel increases in value from P1H to P2A. 2) cross-parcel: increasing the stock of apartment-zoned land reduces its price from P1A to P2A. 1/
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JP Spencer
JP Spencer@JP_Spencer_·
Street Votes are a really interesting idea that could both give more power to local communities and promote better development of housing. 👇
Centre for British Progress@BritishProgress

What if the residents of a street could collectively decide to build more homes on it - and share directly in the benefits? That's street votes. In our new paper with @LabourTogether we set out how community-led street votes could help @SteveReedMP build 1.5 million new homes. labourtogether.uk/all-reports/st… Street votes let neighbours come together, work with an architect, agree a new plan for their street, and vote. If they say yes, building happens with their consent, on their terms, with benefits flowing to the people who already live there. Building in towns and cities is vital - it adds much-needed homes where people want to live, it’s more sustainable and it grows a more resilient local economy. But building in cities and towns is difficult. Under street votes, instead of builders, councils, and residents fighting each other, the community can push for more homes themselves. And because ordinary people are driving the change on small sites, new homes can be built faster than the big schemes relying on big developers. Street votes learn from international schemes that have delivered tens of thousands of homes a year in cities like Seoul and Tel Aviv. Applied here, the evidence suggests up to 30,000 new homes a year in the places we need them most - with the first homes delivered before the end of this Parliament. Much of the work has already been done to put communities in the driver’s seat with street votes. MHCLG just needs to implement the rules. In this paper, @1jamesHowat, @KaneEmerson & @dc_lawrence set out the final steps that the Government should take to build thousands of new homes with popular support.

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Matt Clifford
Matt Clifford@matthewclifford·
This is excellent!
Centre for British Progress@BritishProgress

What if the residents of a street could collectively decide to build more homes on it - and share directly in the benefits? That's street votes. In our new paper with @LabourTogether we set out how community-led street votes could help @SteveReedMP build 1.5 million new homes. labourtogether.uk/all-reports/st… Street votes let neighbours come together, work with an architect, agree a new plan for their street, and vote. If they say yes, building happens with their consent, on their terms, with benefits flowing to the people who already live there. Building in towns and cities is vital - it adds much-needed homes where people want to live, it’s more sustainable and it grows a more resilient local economy. But building in cities and towns is difficult. Under street votes, instead of builders, councils, and residents fighting each other, the community can push for more homes themselves. And because ordinary people are driving the change on small sites, new homes can be built faster than the big schemes relying on big developers. Street votes learn from international schemes that have delivered tens of thousands of homes a year in cities like Seoul and Tel Aviv. Applied here, the evidence suggests up to 30,000 new homes a year in the places we need them most - with the first homes delivered before the end of this Parliament. Much of the work has already been done to put communities in the driver’s seat with street votes. MHCLG just needs to implement the rules. In this paper, @1jamesHowat, @KaneEmerson & @dc_lawrence set out the final steps that the Government should take to build thousands of new homes with popular support.

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Labour YIMBY
Labour YIMBY@yimbylabour·
Want more homes built? Let local people win from them Street votes let neighbours say yes to more homes and share in the upside. Watch opposition melt This new paper shows how it can unlock 30k homes a year and help @SteveReedMP get to 1.5m @mhclg just needs to get on with it
Centre for British Progress@BritishProgress

What if the residents of a street could collectively decide to build more homes on it - and share directly in the benefits? That's street votes. In our new paper with @LabourTogether we set out how community-led street votes could help @SteveReedMP build 1.5 million new homes. labourtogether.uk/all-reports/st… Street votes let neighbours come together, work with an architect, agree a new plan for their street, and vote. If they say yes, building happens with their consent, on their terms, with benefits flowing to the people who already live there. Building in towns and cities is vital - it adds much-needed homes where people want to live, it’s more sustainable and it grows a more resilient local economy. But building in cities and towns is difficult. Under street votes, instead of builders, councils, and residents fighting each other, the community can push for more homes themselves. And because ordinary people are driving the change on small sites, new homes can be built faster than the big schemes relying on big developers. Street votes learn from international schemes that have delivered tens of thousands of homes a year in cities like Seoul and Tel Aviv. Applied here, the evidence suggests up to 30,000 new homes a year in the places we need them most - with the first homes delivered before the end of this Parliament. Much of the work has already been done to put communities in the driver’s seat with street votes. MHCLG just needs to implement the rules. In this paper, @1jamesHowat, @KaneEmerson & @dc_lawrence set out the final steps that the Government should take to build thousands of new homes with popular support.

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