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18 Policy Pointers for the new UK Government

The new UK government has just laid out its policies for government with an emphasis on economic growth. Leaving aside

 

Robert Reich is right about the Right, but AI could help fight back

Summary of: Four ways the mainstream media is quietly helping Trump and his Republican allies by Robert Reich 27 Nov

 

Global meat production is going in the wrong direction

I have been contemplating the link between food and health and how tragic it is on so many levels that

 

The (AI) Axeman Cometh

The following Guardian article makes some of the salient points that I think we should be taking notice of: The

 

What is the difference between normative and prescriptive?

I felt I had to share this AI explanation of a very important concept, namely ‘normative’. It is also another

 

Is an Epistemological Crisis Looming with the Advancement of ChatGPT and Language Model AI?

The impact of AI on knowledge has suddenly been thrust into the spotlight and it has the potential both to contaminate and improve truth and facts.

 

Why is the right so against altruism but in favour of philanthropy?

For many reasons I often think about helping people and I find it very frustrating that I am no longer

 

Why do large corporations behave so badly, when smaller companies often do not?

If it is true that many small companies try to behave reasonably well and decently and fairly, why does scaling

 

Two Minute Papers on further uses of ChatGPT

Discussing uses of ChatGPT, including browser extensions and creating visual images through code, but warning of its inability to perform basic arithmetic.

 

Adventures with ChatGPT and generative LLMs

i hope the following may be instructive. it moves my knowledge of how to use ChatGPT forwards, so i thought

 

Radical Redistribution – From The Right?

When I first read the following article by Charles Moore, I could hardly believe it was written by the Eton-educated,

 

Another crack in the (energy) wall

Oilprice.com is reporting that that the US shale boom is over and that OPEC is once again the world’s swing

 

Broken Britain

I was asked to obtain a copy of the Sunday Times recently. On the front page of Business and Finance

 

A Diary Of Despair

This is my attempt to express an overwhelming sense of hopelessness at what is unfolding both in Britain and much

 

Daily Notes 22 June 2022

For a new project on natural gas I am reading Vaclav Smil’s Natural Gas (2015). It is thorough, well researched

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