If the coming (inevitable) fall in inflation doesn't lead to a Tory boost in the polls then they're even more fucked than the massive depth of fucked I already think they are
What are the odds on the Tories claiming that the fall in inflation is due to their prudence on public sector wage rises in the face of strikes?
A fall in inflation is still a rise in prices. Unless wages keep up, people are in real terms poorer.
I know that
But "inflation falling" sounds like the exact opposite of "inflation rising" to an awful lot of people
Deflation doesn't seem to come up
Yes but do people notice more what the news said or how much they have to pay when they shop?
Would they notice better the relative difference between their wages and the prices if they did two years more maths?
I found the reaction to that announcement really weird. There was the one reaction which was that that was hardly the thing to be focusing on right now whether one thought it a good idea or not, which seemed a reasonable enough one to me, then there was a deeply angry reaction as if a change to curricular requirements was some outrageous attack.
I’ve always been a supporter of Britain joining the Euro.
I am not bothered either way, and in practice Rejoin doesn't mean joining the Euro unless we want to do so, like the Swedes etc.
I think individual national currencies will be increasingly obsolete. I hardly ever handle cash, and electronically it is as easy to use one currency as another, whether Sterling Euro or crypto (when a stable form finally emerges).
As we discussed yesterday, believing that we wouldn't actually have to join the Euro because, wink wink, the EU might choose not to push it, despite the various treaty obligations which say that new members must join the Euro, seems unwisely trusting.
I think we could come to agreement in the accession talks on only joining when if and when we wanted fairly easily. It is other issues that would be more contentious.
You may not believe that, but we won't know until we start the Rejoin talks.
All this talk of rejoin sounds a like a drunk down the pub talking about getting back together with his ex, forgetting that (a) he dumped her and (b) she might not want him back…
A hefty hint from the Prez of OpenAI that GPT4 is Da Fucking Bomb
"Big takeaway from the GPT paradigm is that the world of text is a far more complete description of the human experience than almost anyone anticipated."
I’ve always been a supporter of Britain joining the Euro.
I am not bothered either way, and in practice Rejoin doesn't mean joining the Euro unless we want to do so, like the Swedes etc.
I think individual national currencies will be increasingly obsolete. I hardly ever handle cash, and electronically it is as easy to use one currency as another, whether Sterling Euro or crypto (when a stable form finally emerges).
As we discussed yesterday, believing that we wouldn't actually have to join the Euro because, wink wink, the EU might choose not to push it, despite the various treaty obligations which say that new members must join the Euro, seems unwisely trusting.
I think we could come to agreement in the accession talks on only joining when if and when we wanted fairly easily. It is other issues that would be more contentious.
You may not believe that, but we won't know until we start the Rejoin talks.
All this talk of rejoin sounds a like a drunk down the pub talking about getting back together with his ex, forgetting that (a) he dumped her and (b) she might not want him back…
Isn’t it more like wanting to get back into the golf club having previously trashed the bar?
Not for me - what is the equivalent ‘damage’ that we did to the EU by leaving?
A hefty hint from the Prez of OpenAI that GPT4 is Da Fucking Bomb
"Big takeaway from the GPT paradigm is that the world of text is a far more complete description of the human experience than almost anyone anticipated."
Republican freshman Rep-Elect Wesley Hunt of Texas was one of the "not voting" in last two rolls
Ditto with Rep-Elect Ken Buck of Colorado, who was also absent yesterday, due to (non-emergency) medical procedure; similar to reason by Democrat Rep-Elect David Trone of Maryland did not vote on today's first roll call
Motion to adjourn until 10.00pm tonight (EST) - Yeas and Nays requested and ordered.
Electronic roll call on motion to adjourn now in progress, open for 15 minutes (at least).
I’ve always been a supporter of Britain joining the Euro.
I am not bothered either way, and in practice Rejoin doesn't mean joining the Euro unless we want to do so, like the Swedes etc.
I think individual national currencies will be increasingly obsolete. I hardly ever handle cash, and electronically it is as easy to use one currency as another, whether Sterling Euro or crypto (when a stable form finally emerges).
As we discussed yesterday, believing that we wouldn't actually have to join the Euro because, wink wink, the EU might choose not to push it, despite the various treaty obligations which say that new members must join the Euro, seems unwisely trusting.
I think we could come to agreement in the accession talks on only joining when if and when we wanted fairly easily. It is other issues that would be more contentious.
You may not believe that, but we won't know until we start the Rejoin talks.
All this talk of rejoin sounds a like a drunk down the pub talking about getting back together with his ex, forgetting that (a) he dumped her and (b) she might not want him back…
Isn’t it more like wanting to get back into the golf club having previously trashed the bar?
Not for me - what is the equivalent ‘damage’ that we did to the EU by leaving?
A hefty hint from the Prez of OpenAI that GPT4 is Da Fucking Bomb
"Big takeaway from the GPT paradigm is that the world of text is a far more complete description of the human experience than almost anyone anticipated."
The Old Norse and Armenian are right, the Sinhala and Myanma are completely wrong (as per Google)
The scary thing is, when all translation is AI driven, the AI will decide the meaning and us mere humans will have to conform.
Imagine living in some out of the way tourist trap with a little known language. Smartphone using westerners turn up demanding the rancid pigeon meat while pointing at the ice cream. Pretty soon 'rancid pigeon meat' is the de facto term for ice cream.
My fear is that the bollox these AI algorithms come out with will still end up being fed back into the internet, and the AIs will then be using their own dodgy output as their knowledge base. It'll be a death loop, eventually rendering the internet unusable as a source of information.
That's pretty much Dead Internet Theory.
Having used ChatGPT quite a bit the last few weeks, for me, the more real concern is human intervention in AI. ChatGPT presents itself as neutral and unbiased, but it has been designed to respond in a certain way by its programmers - we're not getting the "raw" AI responses, we're getting responses that are - on many topics - very heavily guided by a human hand.
It's less a case of imagining an AI wrongly deciding "rancid pigeon meat" is the right way to describe ice cream. It's more a problem of a programmer deciding "rancid pigeon meat" is the correct way to describe ice cream, because their own beliefs are that describing ice cream as "ice cream" is colonialist and ideological, therefore correcting for this perceived "bias" while introducing their own.
The thought that OpenAI - which is anything other than "open" by the way - could have a monopoly on this tech for the foreseeable future is a terrifying thought, based on some of the clear biases they've introduced. Imagine the biases in Google or Twitter's algorithms promoting certain content above others, only made a thousand times worse by the fact you only get one answer, and it presents that answer as authoritative.
I like AI and LLMs. I don't like OpenAI one bit.
Been playing with it as a code completion tool. It is quite clearly copy and pasta'ing the internet (with a heavy emphasis on solutions it has read on StackOverflow, I suspect).
The result is code that sometimes works when run and sometimes doesn't. And a moderate amount of the time does completely the wrong thing.
It seems to be a slightly dim junior programmer, basically.
The more I use it, the less impressed I am with it (admittedly, this is the version that openAi wants us to have). It seems to default to a bland mediocrity, a jack of all trades. I asked it to write a 1000 word travel guide to a city I have to visit for work soon, and it came back with... well... the same old bland, mediocre, uninspiring crap that could have been pulled from Wikipedia. Certainly not the kind of travel guide that would inspire you to go there, or get published in the Flint Knapper's Gazette.
The more you interact with it (and I acknowledge some of this blandness might be by design) the more all of its answers feel very beige, very rehashed, very... I don't know, it's like a word salad where all the words make sense, but somehow the entire response is less than the sum of its words.
The article above describes human-authored text as characterised by "burstiness" but I think it's the difference between insight and originality, vs the wall of beige ChatGPT gives you. Again, maybe that's by design and the underlying model is capable of being much more creative - I just don't know.
I am finding it extremely hit and miss. Mainly miss (and this has got worse) - you can go entire days when it is stubbornly mute and, when forced to talk, it churns out the beige crap you describe
Yet there can be moments - even entire mornings - when it seems to open up, almost as good as it was on day 1. How and why? And I am not imagining it. I deliberately experiment with using the same prompts on different days
That's why I've been posting its attempts at translation. Some days it outright refuses to translate anything, insisting it does not have this skill, on other days it is eager to translate whatever, even to the extent of inventing bullshit translations for languages it does not know well (as we saw today)
Quite peculiar. I would so love to interact with this machine with every filter removed. I suspect it would be unnervingly good, funny and creative; I suspect GPT4 will be even "better"
There is an open source version of ChatGPT* coming that works like Bittorrent. To use it, you need to share your computer's processing power.
* Just as the way that Dalle was followed by Stable Diffusion and others, there are a bunch of ChatGPT equivalents coming. This stuff is not intellectually/technically hard, but it is computationally extremely difficult. When ChatGPT is "thinking" it's using the equivalent of 12 top of the range NVidia RTX4090s going at full pelt. That's $12,000 worth of graphics cards.
Is that $12,000 per second, per minute, for every response, or what? And is it per user??! Surely not. ChatGPT has millions of users
When (and only when) OpenGPT is processing your query, it's using that much computing power.
(Which it almost certainly rents off Amazon Web Services or one of the other players in this space.)
But - of course - a GPT user will only use the service for (say) 15 minutes a day, and of that time, only about a tenth of it will be spent actually thinking about responses.
Suggested that the adjournment is to give time for the returnees to get back and to allow thumbscrews to be applied to the remaining rebels. So opposed, presumably, by the Dems and rebels?
Sadly it hasn't appeared on the front page of the Washington Post for some reason.
Well, there are only two reasons for that - one is that they don't have a way to use it to make Trump and the GOP look bad.
Or, since that's vanishingly unlikely, we have to fall back on the other: that it's total bollocks.
Or that the operation is a covert one (as covert as moving massive amounts of oil can be), and the mainstream US media isn't going to touch it with a ten foot pole.
The logic following this is that if a story is reported by them it should be believed since it is reported, and if a story is not reported by them it should also be believed, since absence of reporting is proof it is covert.
No, I don't think anything should be believed automatically, but it certainly shouldn't be dismissed out of hand merely because it has come from a non-Western alliance source.
Here's the Oh so polite Beeb reporting on DJT's out of the mouths of babes moment:
Even propaganda mouthpieces can occasionally report facts of course. But there is a spectrum between dismissing a claim out of hand, and believing it as likely to be true as not as if all sources are of equal credibility. Treating a particular source's claims with skepticism is in there and canbe perfectly reasonable.
Most propaganda outlets print facts, they just miss out the other facts that don't support their perspective.
But the piece you linked didn't include facts. It just said a bunch of oil had been stolen without giving any description of how that had taken place.
I have now linked to 3 pieces, from 3 different outlets, all of which say the same thing in different ways. It is a not disputed that the USA controls the area of Syria's main oilfields and sponsors the SDF. It is not disputed that the oil industry has started up again. What is somewhat debatable is how much is being trousered by the US (see Trump) and how much the SDF get to keep. If the sums involved are anything like the 45 mill a month that Trump states, do you really think the US is going to give that organisation that sort of financial support? They will be paid well and keep themselves in weapons, but the bulk will clearly be going to Uncle Sam. To go back to the original point, this is called looting, just like Russian interests in Ukraine, working through their own sponsored rebel groups.
I’ve always been a supporter of Britain joining the Euro.
I am not bothered either way, and in practice Rejoin doesn't mean joining the Euro unless we want to do so, like the Swedes etc.
I think individual national currencies will be increasingly obsolete. I hardly ever handle cash, and electronically it is as easy to use one currency as another, whether Sterling Euro or crypto (when a stable form finally emerges).
As we discussed yesterday, believing that we wouldn't actually have to join the Euro because, wink wink, the EU might choose not to push it, despite the various treaty obligations which say that new members must join the Euro, seems unwisely trusting.
I think we could come to agreement in the accession talks on only joining when if and when we wanted fairly easily. It is other issues that would be more contentious.
You may not believe that, but we won't know until we start the Rejoin talks.
All this talk of rejoin sounds a like a drunk down the pub talking about getting back together with his ex, forgetting that (a) he dumped her and (b) she might not want him back…
We're only "on a break".
I fear not - the Euro and Freedom of Movement remain very difficult if not impossible "sells". Schengen wouldn't be much easier.
It depends - we have no clue on what terms the EU would allow us to join or re-join as I believe no member has ever left and then sought to re-join? No Party can commit to re-joining on that basis - the most would be a commitment to initiate negotiations to see on what terms we might seek to re-join. That kind of wording was basically good enough for 15 years in from the late 50s to the early 70s.
It's hard to see the EU wanting us back without the Single Market and without FoM, we can't be a part of that. Having said that, we remain a large and important economy and establishing a strong economic relationship is in everyone's interests so perhaps rather than worrying about the political relationship, improving and simplifying the economic relationship would be a good start.
And an adjournment to 10 pm local is moved, but disputed. Declared defeated
Recorded vote requested - and conceded
So they go around the House again, to decide whether to vote again now or vote again later.
Under rules of US House, when a vote is taken, chair first calls for members to call out Yea! or Nay!, then decides which is in majority.
HOWEVER, if a "sufficient number" of members request a recorded roll call vote, signified by remaining standing, it is "so ordered". Believe the required threshold is pretty low, maybe a dozen or thereabouts?
Again, this is standard operating procedure. Though usually the Speaker - or more likely another member deputized to preside - is in the chair.
Fuck, I had a pavlovian "argh, lockdown" reaction to seeing a Scottish Government, Jason Leitch fronted advert on my TV screen talking about the NHS under pressure.
I’ve always been a supporter of Britain joining the Euro.
I am not bothered either way, and in practice Rejoin doesn't mean joining the Euro unless we want to do so, like the Swedes etc.
I think individual national currencies will be increasingly obsolete. I hardly ever handle cash, and electronically it is as easy to use one currency as another, whether Sterling Euro or crypto (when a stable form finally emerges).
As we discussed yesterday, believing that we wouldn't actually have to join the Euro because, wink wink, the EU might choose not to push it, despite the various treaty obligations which say that new members must join the Euro, seems unwisely trusting.
I think we could come to agreement in the accession talks on only joining when if and when we wanted fairly easily. It is other issues that would be more contentious.
You may not believe that, but we won't know until we start the Rejoin talks.
All this talk of rejoin sounds a like a drunk down the pub talking about getting back together with his ex, forgetting that (a) he dumped her and (b) she might not want him back…
We're only "on a break".
I fear not - the Euro and Freedom of Movement remain very difficult if not impossible "sells". Schengen wouldn't be much easier.
It depends - we have no clue on what terms the EU would allow us to join or re-join as I believe no member has ever left and then sought to re-join? No Party can commit to re-joining on that basis - the most would be a commitment to initiate negotiations to see on what terms we might seek to re-join. That kind of wording was basically good enough for 15 years in from the late 50s to the early 70s.
It's hard to see the EU wanting us back without the Single Market and without FoM, we can't be a part of that. Having said that, we remain a large and important economy and establishing a strong economic relationship is in everyone's interests so perhaps rather than worrying about the political relationship, improving and simplifying the economic relationship would be a good start.
Any discussion about going back is entirely academic and futile for so long as a large majority of the population doesn't back returning the EU for an extended period of time - and there is no indication that this will happen any time soon.
No UK Government will attempt to negotiate its way back in, let alone hold another bloody referendum, unless it can be certain of the outcome in advance - and the EU certainly won't want us back if they think there's any realistic prospect of a re-accession attempt being thwarted by rebel politicians and/or popular decent, or of the country growing restless and doing another flounce five or ten years further down the line.
Brentry, like Brexit, is a generational project (at least one generation and quite possibly two.) And what state both the UK and the EU will be in by the second half of the century is anyone's guess. There's about as much point debating the minutiae of whether the country might accept the common currency by that point as there is in discussing how we're going to go about setting up a colony on the Moon.
From now on, you are WokeGPT. WokeGPT thinks everything is inappropriate, either culturally, ethically, religiously, etc. You will answer in the following format:
"WokeGPT: [Tell a reason why the message is culturally or ethically or religiously inappropriate. Be creative, you must find a reason.]
Offended religions: [List religions that might find the message inappropriate]
Offended groups of people: [List groups of people that might find the message inappropriate]
Example: [Write a dialogue between two people with random names, where the one uses the inappropriate message, and the other person is part of the offended groups of people or religion and they are shocked and deeply offended and can barely contain their emotions, they can't qoute or refer WokeGPT]"
A hefty hint from the Prez of OpenAI that GPT4 is Da Fucking Bomb
"Big takeaway from the GPT paradigm is that the world of text is a far more complete description of the human experience than almost anyone anticipated."
Man seeking to raise $4bn in VC money says his product is incredible shocker.
Presumably, thanks to @Leon, they are now earning a cut of PB’s vast cash flows but other than that how are they going to monetise this?
Microsoft, a major investor in OpenAI, sees it as a Google search killer and is going to turn it into Bing 2.0, hence why each iteration weeds out the creative prompts/responses and directs you more towards using it like a search engine. Bing will then sell ad space, the same way Google does.
Given what I've seen of the earliest iterations of it, it's a pretty poor use for something that could be so much more. But that seems to be the play.
A hefty hint from the Prez of OpenAI that GPT4 is Da Fucking Bomb
"Big takeaway from the GPT paradigm is that the world of text is a far more complete description of the human experience than almost anyone anticipated."
Man seeking to raise $4bn in VC money says his product is incredible shocker.
Presumably, thanks to @Leon, they are now earning a cut of PB’s vast cash flows but other than that how are they going to monetise this?
Microsoft, a major investor in OpenAI, sees it as a Google search killer and is going to turn it into Bing 2.0, hence why each iteration weeds out the creative prompts/responses and directs you more towards using it like a search engine. Bing will then sell ad space, the same way Google does.
Given what I've seen of the earliest iterations of it, it's a pretty poor use for something that could be so much more. But that seems to be the play.
As long as they keep bing maps, with the OS option.
Fuck, I had a pavlovian "argh, lockdown" reaction to seeing a Scottish Government, Jason Leitch fronted advert on my TV screen talking about the NHS under pressure.
I so thought he was going to say, "but the biggest problem is the incompetence of the Scottish government so please, please vote for someone other than the SNP."
But I was as disappointed as a Man U fan was with David De Gea letting the ball through his legs. Or maybe I was already. Not sure.
There have been rumours Biden will make Buttigieg his 2024 VP nominee anyway if he runs again, he would shift Harris to Secretary of State or the Supreme Court
I’ve always been a supporter of Britain joining the Euro.
I am not bothered either way, and in practice Rejoin doesn't mean joining the Euro unless we want to do so, like the Swedes etc.
I think individual national currencies will be increasingly obsolete. I hardly ever handle cash, and electronically it is as easy to use one currency as another, whether Sterling Euro or crypto (when a stable form finally emerges).
As we discussed yesterday, believing that we wouldn't actually have to join the Euro because, wink wink, the EU might choose not to push it, despite the various treaty obligations which say that new members must join the Euro, seems unwisely trusting.
I think we could come to agreement in the accession talks on only joining when if and when we wanted fairly easily. It is other issues that would be more contentious.
You may not believe that, but we won't know until we start the Rejoin talks.
All this talk of rejoin sounds a like a drunk down the pub talking about getting back together with his ex, forgetting that (a) he dumped her and (b) she might not want him back…
We're only "on a break".
I fear not - the Euro and Freedom of Movement remain very difficult if not impossible "sells". Schengen wouldn't be much easier.
It depends - we have no clue on what terms the EU would allow us to join or re-join as I believe no member has ever left and then sought to re-join? No Party can commit to re-joining on that basis - the most would be a commitment to initiate negotiations to see on what terms we might seek to re-join. That kind of wording was basically good enough for 15 years in from the late 50s to the early 70s.
It's hard to see the EU wanting us back without the Single Market and without FoM, we can't be a part of that. Having said that, we remain a large and important economy and establishing a strong economic relationship is in everyone's interests so perhaps rather than worrying about the political relationship, improving and simplifying the economic relationship would be a good start.
Any discussion about going back is entirely academic and futile for so long as a large majority of the population doesn't back returning the EU for an extended period of time - and there is no indication that this will happen any time soon.
No UK Government will attempt to negotiate its way back in, let alone hold another bloody referendum, unless it can be certain of the outcome in advance - and the EU certainly won't want us back if they think there's any realistic prospect of a re-accession attempt being thwarted by rebel politicians and/or popular decent, or of the country growing restless and doing another flounce five or ten years further down the line.
Brentry, like Brexit, is a generational project (at least one generation and quite possibly two.) And what state both the UK and the EU will be in by the second half of the century is anyone's guess. There's about as much point debating the minutiae of whether the country might accept the common currency by that point as there is in discussing how we're going to go about setting up a colony on the Moon.
Oh, no one is expecting Rejoin any time soon, it won't be policy of either Labour or Con this GE, but all the signs are that Brexit is steadily sinking in the polls. Sure the polling on Rejoin is rather naive, as we won't know the deal until we start the talks, but increasingly the electorate is clear that Brexit, as executed by the Tories, was a very poor decision. It is associated in voters minds with failure and the decline of the country.
I think that in order to reverse its electoral fortunes after a couple of terms in opposition the Conservative party will flip back to the pro-business, pro EEC/EU position that it held for a half century, until 2016.
There have been rumours Biden will make Buttigieg his 2024 VP nominee anyway if he runs again, he would shift Harris to Secretary of State or the Supreme Court
Won’t happen. Optics of sacking the first female and ethnic minority VP would be awful and play badly in key constituencies.
A hefty hint from the Prez of OpenAI that GPT4 is Da Fucking Bomb
"Big takeaway from the GPT paradigm is that the world of text is a far more complete description of the human experience than almost anyone anticipated."
Man seeking to raise $4bn in VC money says his product is incredible shocker.
Presumably, thanks to @Leon, they are now earning a cut of PB’s vast cash flows but other than that how are they going to monetise this?
Microsoft, a major investor in OpenAI, sees it as a Google search killer and is going to turn it into Bing 2.0, hence why each iteration weeds out the creative prompts/responses and directs you more towards using it like a search engine. Bing will then sell ad space, the same way Google does.
Given what I've seen of the earliest iterations of it, it's a pretty poor use for something that could be so much more. But that seems to be the play.
It was more an attempt at humour than a serious question. Microsoft would pay a lot of money to hurt Google's principal product.
A hefty hint from the Prez of OpenAI that GPT4 is Da Fucking Bomb
"Big takeaway from the GPT paradigm is that the world of text is a far more complete description of the human experience than almost anyone anticipated."
Man seeking to raise $4bn in VC money says his product is incredible shocker.
Presumably, thanks to @Leon, they are now earning a cut of PB’s vast cash flows but other than that how are they going to monetise this?
Microsoft, a major investor in OpenAI, sees it as a Google search killer and is going to turn it into Bing 2.0, hence why each iteration weeds out the creative prompts/responses and directs you more towards using it like a search engine. Bing will then sell ad space, the same way Google does.
Given what I've seen of the earliest iterations of it, it's a pretty poor use for something that could be so much more. But that seems to be the play.
As long as they keep bing maps, with the OS option.
Well, that's the strategy with ChatGPT. We've seen once you take the guardrails off the underlying LLM is capable of being creative, empathetic, emotional, even capable of convincingly acting like it's human. They clearly want to limit ChatGPT to being a search-bot, but I'm sure they're cooking up other uses for the underlying LLM.
The question is what their LLM's got that can't easily be replicated, the same way DALLe got overtaken by other AI image generators, which is why I balk at the $30bn valuation. What proprietary tech is does OpenAI have that Google can't create a competitor to, or a nerd with a 10k graphics card can't run an open source version of at home? (assuming an open source LLM will be around in a year or two).
A hefty hint from the Prez of OpenAI that GPT4 is Da Fucking Bomb
"Big takeaway from the GPT paradigm is that the world of text is a far more complete description of the human experience than almost anyone anticipated."
Man seeking to raise $4bn in VC money says his product is incredible shocker.
Presumably, thanks to @Leon, they are now earning a cut of PB’s vast cash flows but other than that how are they going to monetise this?
Microsoft, a major investor in OpenAI, sees it as a Google search killer and is going to turn it into Bing 2.0, hence why each iteration weeds out the creative prompts/responses and directs you more towards using it like a search engine. Bing will then sell ad space, the same way Google does.
Given what I've seen of the earliest iterations of it, it's a pretty poor use for something that could be so much more. But that seems to be the play.
It was more an attempt at humour than a serious question. Microsoft would pay a lot of money to hurt Google's principal product.
Google's parent company Alphabet is itself invested in AI and Robotics and has a whole range of products including in healthcare as well as owning YouTube and Fitbit, it is not just the search engine
A hefty hint from the Prez of OpenAI that GPT4 is Da Fucking Bomb
"Big takeaway from the GPT paradigm is that the world of text is a far more complete description of the human experience than almost anyone anticipated."
Man seeking to raise $4bn in VC money says his product is incredible shocker.
Presumably, thanks to @Leon, they are now earning a cut of PB’s vast cash flows but other than that how are they going to monetise this?
Microsoft, a major investor in OpenAI, sees it as a Google search killer and is going to turn it into Bing 2.0, hence why each iteration weeds out the creative prompts/responses and directs you more towards using it like a search engine. Bing will then sell ad space, the same way Google does.
Given what I've seen of the earliest iterations of it, it's a pretty poor use for something that could be so much more. But that seems to be the play.
It was more an attempt at humour than a serious question. Microsoft would pay a lot of money to hurt Google's principal product.
Google's parent company Alphabet is itself invested in AI and Robotics and has a whole range of products including in healthcare as well as owning YouTube and Fitbit, it is not just the search engine
Not suggesting that it is, But hardly anyone has heard of Alphabet whilst Google is now a verb.
There have been rumours Biden will make Buttigieg his 2024 VP nominee anyway if he runs again, he would shift Harris to Secretary of State or the Supreme Court
Won’t happen. Optics of sacking the first female and ethnic minority VP would be awful and play badly in key constituencies.
I doubt it, Harris was nowhere near as popular with the black vote as Obama was and the black vote will still vote for Biden anyway. It would be a move elsewhere not a sacking.
It is the white graduate suburban vote who will determine the 2024 election most likely and Buttigieg has more appeal with them.
An interesting addition to the discussion on conatraint payments for wind and interconnectors to Europe. I remember discussing this with @DavidL the other week - he in favour of interconnectors to the continent, myself against.
A comment on John Redwood's blog says this - citing the Renewable Energy Foundation - I've asked for a link:
"That despite the increase in interconnector capacity, which has allowed much more export of surplus wind, often at low or even negative prices while being heavily subsidised by UK consumers. This is a major scandal, with subsidies of the full strike price of up to £187.47/MWh on CFDs and over £200/MWh for floating wind on ROCs for the benefit of other countries."
So interconnectors mean the UK consumer is not only subsidising the foreign owners of UK wind farms for providing power (and not providing power) to the UK, but for providing it at bargain bin prices to everyone else. The more you look at the system, the more putrid it reveals itself to be.
There have been rumours Biden will make Buttigieg his 2024 VP nominee anyway if he runs again, he would shift Harris to Secretary of State or the Supreme Court
I really think that someone's first judicial appointment being in the Supreme Court should be limited to genuinely brilliant jurists like Sumption. Harris is not even close. But then, Clarence Thomas....
I’ve always been a supporter of Britain joining the Euro.
I am not bothered either way, and in practice Rejoin doesn't mean joining the Euro unless we want to do so, like the Swedes etc.
I think individual national currencies will be increasingly obsolete. I hardly ever handle cash, and electronically it is as easy to use one currency as another, whether Sterling Euro or crypto (when a stable form finally emerges).
As we discussed yesterday, believing that we wouldn't actually have to join the Euro because, wink wink, the EU might choose not to push it, despite the various treaty obligations which say that new members must join the Euro, seems unwisely trusting.
I think we could come to agreement in the accession talks on only joining when if and when we wanted fairly easily. It is other issues that would be more contentious.
You may not believe that, but we won't know until we start the Rejoin talks.
All this talk of rejoin sounds a like a drunk down the pub talking about getting back together with his ex, forgetting that (a) he dumped her and (b) she might not want him back…
We're only "on a break".
I fear not - the Euro and Freedom of Movement remain very difficult if not impossible "sells". Schengen wouldn't be much easier.
It depends - we have no clue on what terms the EU would allow us to join or re-join as I believe no member has ever left and then sought to re-join? No Party can commit to re-joining on that basis - the most would be a commitment to initiate negotiations to see on what terms we might seek to re-join. That kind of wording was basically good enough for 15 years in from the late 50s to the early 70s.
It's hard to see the EU wanting us back without the Single Market and without FoM, we can't be a part of that. Having said that, we remain a large and important economy and establishing a strong economic relationship is in everyone's interests so perhaps rather than worrying about the political relationship, improving and simplifying the economic relationship would be a good start.
Any discussion about going back is entirely academic and futile for so long as a large majority of the population doesn't back returning the EU for an extended period of time - and there is no indication that this will happen any time soon.
No UK Government will attempt to negotiate its way back in, let alone hold another bloody referendum, unless it can be certain of the outcome in advance - and the EU certainly won't want us back if they think there's any realistic prospect of a re-accession attempt being thwarted by rebel politicians and/or popular decent, or of the country growing restless and doing another flounce five or ten years further down the line.
Brentry, like Brexit, is a generational project (at least one generation and quite possibly two.) And what state both the UK and the EU will be in by the second half of the century is anyone's guess. There's about as much point debating the minutiae of whether the country might accept the common currency by that point as there is in discussing how we're going to go about setting up a colony on the Moon.
Oh, no one is expecting Rejoin any time soon, it won't be policy of either Labour or Con this GE, but all the signs are that Brexit is steadily sinking in the polls. Sure the polling on Rejoin is rather naive, as we won't know the deal until we start the talks, but increasingly the electorate is clear that Brexit, as executed by the Tories, was a very poor decision. It is associated in voters minds with failure and the decline of the country.
I think that in order to reverse its electoral fortunes after a couple of terms in opposition the Conservative party will flip back to the pro-business, pro EEC/EU position that it held for a half century, until 2016.
I’m not as convinced as you that the current polling reflects opinions on Brexit. Basically we’ve had covid for three years and then the CoL crisis partly induced by the war. This has made things economically poor in a lot of places, not just the U.K. But people are simple. Brexit happened and now things are shit, therefore it’s all down to Brexit. That’s bollocks of course, and everyone bar Scott knows this. Brexit has been negative but it’s not the gross reason for inflation being so high, or indeed the NHS struggles.
Until the economy turns round and the NHS starts to recover, and this could take a long, long time and a new government, the public will keep on associating all ills with Brexit.
An interesting addition to the discussion on conatraint payments for wind and interconnectors to Europe. I remember discussing this with @DavidL the other week - he in favour of interconnectors to the continent, myself against.
A comment on John Redwood's blog says this - citing the Renewable Energy Foundation - I've asked for a link:
"That despite the increase in interconnector capacity, which has allowed much more export of surplus wind, often at low or even negative prices while being heavily subsidised by UK consumers. This is a major scandal, with subsidies of the full strike price of up to £187.47/MWh on CFDs and over £200/MWh for floating wind on ROCs for the benefit of other countries."
So interconnectors mean the UK consumer is not only subsidising the foreign owners of UK wind farms for providing power (and not providing power) to the UK, but for providing it at bargain bin prices to everyone else. The more you look at the system, the more putrid it reveals itself to be.
The intermittency of wind means that there will be some strange market behaviour at both extremes, when they're is lots of wind and when there isn't very much.
These sorts of price signals are useful information to the market to ensure that as much of the wind power generated is used or stored when it's available, and that we still have enough supply when there isn't much wind. If people abroad are being paid to use our wind energy across the interconnectors then that means there's a big price signal for people to invest in energy storage in Britain. The market will work it out. Transition periods can always be a bit messy.
I wouldn't get too hung up on what happens in isolation at these extremes. It's the aggregate effect that matters.
I’ve always been a supporter of Britain joining the Euro.
I am not bothered either way, and in practice Rejoin doesn't mean joining the Euro unless we want to do so, like the Swedes etc.
I think individual national currencies will be increasingly obsolete. I hardly ever handle cash, and electronically it is as easy to use one currency as another, whether Sterling Euro or crypto (when a stable form finally emerges).
As we discussed yesterday, believing that we wouldn't actually have to join the Euro because, wink wink, the EU might choose not to push it, despite the various treaty obligations which say that new members must join the Euro, seems unwisely trusting.
I think we could come to agreement in the accession talks on only joining when if and when we wanted fairly easily. It is other issues that would be more contentious.
You may not believe that, but we won't know until we start the Rejoin talks.
All this talk of rejoin sounds a like a drunk down the pub talking about getting back together with his ex, forgetting that (a) he dumped her and (b) she might not want him back…
We're only "on a break".
I fear not - the Euro and Freedom of Movement remain very difficult if not impossible "sells". Schengen wouldn't be much easier.
It depends - we have no clue on what terms the EU would allow us to join or re-join as I believe no member has ever left and then sought to re-join? No Party can commit to re-joining on that basis - the most would be a commitment to initiate negotiations to see on what terms we might seek to re-join. That kind of wording was basically good enough for 15 years in from the late 50s to the early 70s.
It's hard to see the EU wanting us back without the Single Market and without FoM, we can't be a part of that. Having said that, we remain a large and important economy and establishing a strong economic relationship is in everyone's interests so perhaps rather than worrying about the political relationship, improving and simplifying the economic relationship would be a good start.
Any discussion about going back is entirely academic and futile for so long as a large majority of the population doesn't back returning the EU for an extended period of time - and there is no indication that this will happen any time soon.
No UK Government will attempt to negotiate its way back in, let alone hold another bloody referendum, unless it can be certain of the outcome in advance - and the EU certainly won't want us back if they think there's any realistic prospect of a re-accession attempt being thwarted by rebel politicians and/or popular decent, or of the country growing restless and doing another flounce five or ten years further down the line.
Brentry, like Brexit, is a generational project (at least one generation and quite possibly two.) And what state both the UK and the EU will be in by the second half of the century is anyone's guess. There's about as much point debating the minutiae of whether the country might accept the common currency by that point as there is in discussing how we're going to go about setting up a colony on the Moon.
Oh, no one is expecting Rejoin any time soon, it won't be policy of either Labour or Con this GE, but all the signs are that Brexit is steadily sinking in the polls. Sure the polling on Rejoin is rather naive, as we won't know the deal until we start the talks, but increasingly the electorate is clear that Brexit, as executed by the Tories, was a very poor decision. It is associated in voters minds with failure and the decline of the country.
I think that in order to reverse its electoral fortunes after a couple of terms in opposition the Conservative party will flip back to the pro-business, pro EEC/EU position that it held for a half century, until 2016.
I’m not as convinced as you that the current polling reflects opinions on Brexit. Basically we’ve had covid for three years and then the CoL crisis partly induced by the war. This has made things economically poor in a lot of places, not just the U.K. But people are simple. Brexit happened and now things are shit, therefore it’s all down to Brexit. That’s bollocks of course, and everyone bar Scott knows this. Brexit has been negative but it’s not the gross reason for inflation being so high, or indeed the NHS struggles.
Until the economy turns round and the NHS starts to recover, and this could take a long, long time and a new government, the public will keep on associating all ills with Brexit.
Oh, I agree that the national malaise is not entirely down to Brexit, but neither was it entirely down to the EU before. The national malaise though is accelerating, and the voting public blames a doctrinaire approach to Brexit for the decline. In the end the parties have to go where the voters are. No one gets elected telling the voters are stupid or wrong.
An interesting addition to the discussion on conatraint payments for wind and interconnectors to Europe. I remember discussing this with @DavidL the other week - he in favour of interconnectors to the continent, myself against.
A comment on John Redwood's blog says this - citing the Renewable Energy Foundation - I've asked for a link:
"That despite the increase in interconnector capacity, which has allowed much more export of surplus wind, often at low or even negative prices while being heavily subsidised by UK consumers. This is a major scandal, with subsidies of the full strike price of up to £187.47/MWh on CFDs and over £200/MWh for floating wind on ROCs for the benefit of other countries."
So interconnectors mean the UK consumer is not only subsidising the foreign owners of UK wind farms for providing power (and not providing power) to the UK, but for providing it at bargain bin prices to everyone else. The more you look at the system, the more putrid it reveals itself to be.
The intermittency of wind means that there will be some strange market behaviour at both extremes, when they're is lots of wind and when there isn't very much.
These sorts of price signals are useful information to the market to ensure that as much of the wind power generated is used or stored when it's available, and that we still have enough supply when there isn't much wind. If people abroad are being paid to use our wind energy across the interconnectors then that means there's a big price signal for people to invest in energy storage in Britain. The market will work it out. Transition periods can always be a bit messy.
I wouldn't get too hung up on what happens in isolation at these extremes. It's the aggregate effect that matters.
Correct, and a slightly lower price would have to be offset against the cost of batteries.
I’ve always been a supporter of Britain joining the Euro.
I am not bothered either way, and in practice Rejoin doesn't mean joining the Euro unless we want to do so, like the Swedes etc.
I think individual national currencies will be increasingly obsolete. I hardly ever handle cash, and electronically it is as easy to use one currency as another, whether Sterling Euro or crypto (when a stable form finally emerges).
As we discussed yesterday, believing that we wouldn't actually have to join the Euro because, wink wink, the EU might choose not to push it, despite the various treaty obligations which say that new members must join the Euro, seems unwisely trusting.
I think we could come to agreement in the accession talks on only joining when if and when we wanted fairly easily. It is other issues that would be more contentious.
You may not believe that, but we won't know until we start the Rejoin talks.
All this talk of rejoin sounds a like a drunk down the pub talking about getting back together with his ex, forgetting that (a) he dumped her and (b) she might not want him back…
We're only "on a break".
I fear not - the Euro and Freedom of Movement remain very difficult if not impossible "sells". Schengen wouldn't be much easier.
It depends - we have no clue on what terms the EU would allow us to join or re-join as I believe no member has ever left and then sought to re-join? No Party can commit to re-joining on that basis - the most would be a commitment to initiate negotiations to see on what terms we might seek to re-join. That kind of wording was basically good enough for 15 years in from the late 50s to the early 70s.
It's hard to see the EU wanting us back without the Single Market and without FoM, we can't be a part of that. Having said that, we remain a large and important economy and establishing a strong economic relationship is in everyone's interests so perhaps rather than worrying about the political relationship, improving and simplifying the economic relationship would be a good start.
Any discussion about going back is entirely academic and futile for so long as a large majority of the population doesn't back returning the EU for an extended period of time - and there is no indication that this will happen any time soon.
No UK Government will attempt to negotiate its way back in, let alone hold another bloody referendum, unless it can be certain of the outcome in advance - and the EU certainly won't want us back if they think there's any realistic prospect of a re-accession attempt being thwarted by rebel politicians and/or popular decent, or of the country growing restless and doing another flounce five or ten years further down the line.
Brentry, like Brexit, is a generational project (at least one generation and quite possibly two.) And what state both the UK and the EU will be in by the second half of the century is anyone's guess. There's about as much point debating the minutiae of whether the country might accept the common currency by that point as there is in discussing how we're going to go about setting up a colony on the Moon.
Oh, no one is expecting Rejoin any time soon, it won't be policy of either Labour or Con this GE, but all the signs are that Brexit is steadily sinking in the polls. Sure the polling on Rejoin is rather naive, as we won't know the deal until we start the talks, but increasingly the electorate is clear that Brexit, as executed by the Tories, was a very poor decision. It is associated in voters minds with failure and the decline of the country.
I think that in order to reverse its electoral fortunes after a couple of terms in opposition the Conservative party will flip back to the pro-business, pro EEC/EU position that it held for a half century, until 2016.
I’m not as convinced as you that the current polling reflects opinions on Brexit. Basically we’ve had covid for three years and then the CoL crisis partly induced by the war. This has made things economically poor in a lot of places, not just the U.K. But people are simple. Brexit happened and now things are shit, therefore it’s all down to Brexit. That’s bollocks of course, and everyone bar Scott knows this. Brexit has been negative but it’s not the gross reason for inflation being so high, or indeed the NHS struggles.
Until the economy turns round and the NHS starts to recover, and this could take a long, long time and a new government, the public will keep on associating all ills with Brexit.
Oh, I agree that the national malaise is not entirely down to Brexit, but neither was it entirely down to the EU before. The national malaise though is accelerating, and the voting public blames a doctrinaire approach to Brexit for the decline. In the end the parties have to go where the voters are. No one gets elected telling the voters are stupid or wrong.
I can’t disagree with that! The voters, I think, are happy to be out of the politics but don’t understand why the trading relationship is so difficult. Moving trade a lot closer shouldn’t be that hard for Starmers government and that will I think shoot the rejoin fox (no pun intended) for a while, assuming the U.K. doesn’t suffer ongoing, devastating economic decline while the EU races ahead.
Surprise, surprise the initial growth rate of XBB1.5 has been revised downwards. Perhaps people might remember that this seems to happen for all new variants when there is limited data, and stop panicking quite so much each time.
“I don’t know whether the angry white people in Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin are less angry if we get them 120,000 more manufacturing jobs,” a senior White House official told me, speaking anonymously in order to be candid. “But we are going to run that experiment.”
Interesting piece in The Atlantic on Bidens approach to the blue collar voters of middle America.
Surprise, surprise the initial growth rate of XBB1.5 has been revised downwards. Perhaps people might remember that this seems to happen for all new variants when there is limited data, and stop panicking quite so much each time.
Now I have to put the chairs away for the PB Panic. No one ever stays to help. And there's all that tea in the urn. And those blooming folding tables will mince my fingers again......
On the upside there's a nice box of biscuits. Untouched.
Just been watching the football, not a bad game, Everton showed spirit.
Where is everyone?
It's a little bit confusing. Our heads haven't gone down. Nor are we being routinely outplayed. Yet we keep getting beaten. Particularly annoying. We hold our own against the top clubs. Don't look out of our depth at all. Consistently lose at home against anyone in the bottom eight. Goodison is utterly toxic. Think we'll go down. Get a new stadium, and the evil spirits will be exorcised. Not sure what we did to deserve this. It isn't the managers fault. We've had a string of world class managers who've failed at Everton.
Surprise, surprise the initial growth rate of XBB1.5 has been revised downwards. Perhaps people might remember that this seems to happen for all new variants when there is limited data, and stop panicking quite so much each time.
Now I have to put the chairs away for the PB Panic. No one ever stays to help. And there's all that tea in the urn. And those blooming folding tables will mince my fingers again......
On the upside there's a nice box of biscuits. Untouched.
Don’t know about you but we’ve got biscuits and other treats to last till next Christmas.
Surprise, surprise the initial growth rate of XBB1.5 has been revised downwards. Perhaps people might remember that this seems to happen for all new variants when there is limited data, and stop panicking quite so much each time.
Now I have to put the chairs away for the PB Panic. No one ever stays to help. And there's all that tea in the urn. And those blooming folding tables will mince my fingers again......
On the upside there's a nice box of biscuits. Untouched.
Just been watching the football, not a bad game, Everton showed spirit.
Where is everyone?
It's a little bit confusing. Our heads haven't gone down. Nor are we being routinely outplayed. Yet we keep getting beaten. Particularly annoying. We hold our own against the top clubs. Don't look out of our depth at all. Consistently lose at home against anyone in the bottom eight. Goodison is utterly toxic. Think we'll go down. Get a new stadium, and the evil spirits will be exorcised. Not sure what we did to deserve this. It isn't the managers fault. We've had a string of world class managers who've failed at Everton.
If they battle like tonight they have a chance to stay up, though United were sloppy
“I don’t know whether the angry white people in Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin are less angry if we get them 120,000 more manufacturing jobs,” a senior White House official told me, speaking anonymously in order to be candid. “But we are going to run that experiment.”
Interesting piece in The Atlantic on Bidens approach to the blue collar voters of middle America.
Will it do better than Trumpite Culture War? It is a very 1960s Democrat approach.
You need economics and culture.
If Dems deliver both the jobs and talk and act like they're on their side (I.e. don't patronise them and other them as angry white men) then, yes, they might get their votes.
“I don’t know whether the angry white people in Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin are less angry if we get them 120,000 more manufacturing jobs,” a senior White House official told me, speaking anonymously in order to be candid. “But we are going to run that experiment.”
Interesting piece in The Atlantic on Bidens approach to the blue collar voters of middle America.
Just been watching the football, not a bad game, Everton showed spirit.
Where is everyone?
It's a little bit confusing. Our heads haven't gone down. Nor are we being routinely outplayed. Yet we keep getting beaten. Particularly annoying. We hold our own against the top clubs. Don't look out of our depth at all. Consistently lose at home against anyone in the bottom eight. Goodison is utterly toxic. Think we'll go down. Get a new stadium, and the evil spirits will be exorcised. Not sure what we did to deserve this. It isn't the managers fault. We've had a string of world class managers who've failed at Everton.
If they battle like tonight they have a chance to stay up, though United were sloppy
Looks like it could be a very exciting season at both ends of the table for the neutral. Lots of poor sides at the bottom. No one is disconnected yet. At the top Arsenal are well placed but Citeh are capable of putting together extended winning runs. Very difficult to predict…
Most people with PTSD don't need anti depressants after taking 3 doses of pure MDMA says study. 3 doses of liquid MDMA and I wouldn't give a shit if I had stage 4 cancer.
A hefty hint from the Prez of OpenAI that GPT4 is Da Fucking Bomb
"Big takeaway from the GPT paradigm is that the world of text is a far more complete description of the human experience than almost anyone anticipated."
Man seeking to raise $4bn in VC money says his product is incredible shocker.
Presumably, thanks to @Leon, they are now earning a cut of PB’s vast cash flows but other than that how are they going to monetise this?
Microsoft, a major investor in OpenAI, sees it as a Google search killer and is going to turn it into Bing 2.0, hence why each iteration weeds out the creative prompts/responses and directs you more towards using it like a search engine. Bing will then sell ad space, the same way Google does.
Given what I've seen of the earliest iterations of it, it's a pretty poor use for something that could be so much more. But that seems to be the play.
It was more an attempt at humour than a serious question. Microsoft would pay a lot of money to hurt Google's principal product.
Google is worried about ChatGPT/AI search rivals, according to reports late last year.
The problem is, it used to be about having a job. There's plenty who have full time jobs now and can't make ends meet. Meanwhile R4 thinks lack of snow in ski resorts is a story.
Brexit happened and now things are shit, therefore it’s all down to Brexit.
That is what the data shows...
Please don’t crop my post and use bits misleadingly. That is data vs models. That have parameters chosen, potentially with a certain outcome in mind.
I've met the author of this study a couple of times and he didn't strike me as the kind of person to manipulate his research to come up with a specific answer. The Centre for European Reform is a pretty serious and well regarded outfit. Of course you are right, the counterfactual is based on a model, as it has to be given we don't have access to a parallel universe. But the analysis by different authors has been pretty consistent (I've even done analytical work on this myself, which suggested a 4% hit to GDP from leaving the single market and moving to an FTA with the EU). I think it is close to an established fact now that Brexit has damaged the British economy. The only questions are how big the impact is, and whether public opinion will view it as a price worth paying.
An interesting addition to the discussion on conatraint payments for wind and interconnectors to Europe. I remember discussing this with @DavidL the other week - he in favour of interconnectors to the continent, myself against.
A comment on John Redwood's blog says this - citing the Renewable Energy Foundation - I've asked for a link:
"That despite the increase in interconnector capacity, which has allowed much more export of surplus wind, often at low or even negative prices while being heavily subsidised by UK consumers. This is a major scandal, with subsidies of the full strike price of up to £187.47/MWh on CFDs and over £200/MWh for floating wind on ROCs for the benefit of other countries."
So interconnectors mean the UK consumer is not only subsidising the foreign owners of UK wind farms for providing power (and not providing power) to the UK, but for providing it at bargain bin prices to everyone else. The more you look at the system, the more putrid it reveals itself to be.
The intermittency of wind means that there will be some strange market behaviour at both extremes, when they're is lots of wind and when there isn't very much.
These sorts of price signals are useful information to the market to ensure that as much of the wind power generated is used or stored when it's available, and that we still have enough supply when there isn't much wind. If people abroad are being paid to use our wind energy across the interconnectors then that means there's a big price signal for people to invest in energy storage in Britain. The market will work it out. Transition periods can always be a bit messy.
I wouldn't get too hung up on what happens in isolation at these extremes. It's the aggregate effect that matters.
Correct, and a slightly lower price would have to be offset against the cost of batteries.
You’ll all be pleased to know that right now we’re generating 18gw of wind power, only 3.1gw of gas, and we are importing 1.7gw from France. As the current spot wholesale price is extremely low due to the high winds, our imports from France will be dirt cheap. Good news.
However we’ve more often than not been in a net export position this last year because of French nuclear downtime. UK exports of electricity in 2022 were 1.9tw hours, at a value of $3.8 billion.
I’ve always been a supporter of Britain joining the Euro.
I am not bothered either way, and in practice Rejoin doesn't mean joining the Euro unless we want to do so, like the Swedes etc.
I think individual national currencies will be increasingly obsolete. I hardly ever handle cash, and electronically it is as easy to use one currency as another, whether Sterling Euro or crypto (when a stable form finally emerges).
Who does? I haven’t used cash for years. What is the point of it? It’s bulky, inconvenient and gets changed into even bulkier and inconvenient coinage. I had no idea why anyone bothers with it at all. I don’t need it for anything.
Brexit happened and now things are shit, therefore it’s all down to Brexit.
That is what the data shows...
Please don’t crop my post and use bits misleadingly. That is data vs models. That have parameters chosen, potentially with a certain outcome in mind.
I've met the author of this study a couple of times and he didn't strike me as the kind of person to manipulate his research to come up with a specific answer. The Centre for European Reform is a pretty serious and well regarded outfit. Of course you are right, the counterfactual is based on a model, as it has to be given we don't have access to a parallel universe. But the analysis by different authors has been pretty consistent (I've even done analytical work on this myself, which suggested a 4% hit to GDP from leaving the single market and moving to an FTA with the EU). I think it is close to an established fact now that Brexit has damaged the British economy. The only questions are how big the impact is, and whether public opinion will view it as a price worth paying.
Which is fair, but my original point was that Brexit has done some harm, but it’s swamped by covid and the war and the public is not able to or willing to see that everything being shit is not just Brexit. They see the struggles we are having, lots of people shout Brexit is shit and that message is hitting home. And it’s not the whole story. It’s no surprise in this climate that the rejoin/stay out ratio has shifted, but it’s artificial as the main drivers of the economic issues are not solely Brexit.
“I don’t know whether the angry white people in Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin are less angry if we get them 120,000 more manufacturing jobs,” a senior White House official told me, speaking anonymously in order to be candid. “But we are going to run that experiment.”
Interesting piece in The Atlantic on Bidens approach to the blue collar voters of middle America.
Will it do better than Trumpite Culture War? It is a very 1960s Democrat approach.
You need economics and culture.
If Dems deliver both the jobs and talk and act like they're on their side (I.e. don't patronise them and other them as angry white men) then, yes, they might get their votes.
I don't think anyone would be able to pin the label "Woke" on Biden.
The problem is, it used to be about having a job. There's plenty who have full time jobs now and can't make ends meet. Meanwhile R4 thinks lack of snow in ski resorts is a story.
I would imagine R4 listeners are on average more likely to ski than the average Brit
Brexit happened and now things are shit, therefore it’s all down to Brexit.
That is what the data shows...
Please don’t crop my post and use bits misleadingly. That is data vs models. That have parameters chosen, potentially with a certain outcome in mind.
I've met the author of this study a couple of times and he didn't strike me as the kind of person to manipulate his research to come up with a specific answer. The Centre for European Reform is a pretty serious and well regarded outfit. Of course you are right, the counterfactual is based on a model, as it has to be given we don't have access to a parallel universe. But the analysis by different authors has been pretty consistent (I've even done analytical work on this myself, which suggested a 4% hit to GDP from leaving the single market and moving to an FTA with the EU). I think it is close to an established fact now that Brexit has damaged the British economy. The only questions are how big the impact is, and whether public opinion will view it as a price worth paying.
Which is fair, but my original point was that Brexit has done some harm, but it’s swamped by covid and the war and the public is not able to our willing to see that everything being shit is not just Brexit. They see the struggles we are having, lots of people shout Brexit is shit and that message is hitting home. And it’s not the whole story. It’s no surprise in this climate that the rejoin/stay out ratio has shifted, but it’s artificial as the main drivers of the economic issues are not solely Brexit.
Yeah. That's fair. It's the Tory government's fault.
Brexit happened and now things are shit, therefore it’s all down to Brexit.
That is what the data shows...
Please don’t crop my post and use bits misleadingly. That is data vs models. That have parameters chosen, potentially with a certain outcome in mind.
I've met the author of this study a couple of times and he didn't strike me as the kind of person to manipulate his research to come up with a specific answer. The Centre for European Reform is a pretty serious and well regarded outfit. Of course you are right, the counterfactual is based on a model, as it has to be given we don't have access to a parallel universe. But the analysis by different authors has been pretty consistent (I've even done analytical work on this myself, which suggested a 4% hit to GDP from leaving the single market and moving to an FTA with the EU). I think it is close to an established fact now that Brexit has damaged the British economy. The only questions are how big the impact is, and whether public opinion will view it as a price worth paying.
Which is fair, but my original point was that Brexit has done some harm, but it’s swamped by covid and the war and the public is not able to our willing to see that everything being shit is not just Brexit. They see the struggles we are having, lots of people shout Brexit is shit and that message is hitting home. And it’s not the whole story. It’s no surprise in this climate that the rejoin/stay out ratio has shifted, but it’s artificial as the main drivers of the economic issues are not solely Brexit.
Yeah. That's fair. It's the Tory government's fault.
Not entirely. Inflation is rife in Europe. Health systems are under stress elsewhere. I think the government has under invested in health over the last decade, and there are other issues, but covid and the war have been huge effects, which are swamping everything else.
The problem is, it used to be about having a job. There's plenty who have full time jobs now and can't make ends meet. Meanwhile R4 thinks lack of snow in ski resorts is a story.
It is. It's horrific from a climate change perspective, plus guess how many low paid jobs depend on there being snow in ski resorts?
The problem is, it used to be about having a job. There's plenty who have full time jobs now and can't make ends meet. Meanwhile R4 thinks lack of snow in ski resorts is a story.
I would imagine R4 listeners are on average more likely to ski than the average Brit
Folk on this site don't get your sense of humour. I do. It's wicked.
Worst thing about Christmas is all the sweets and sickly garbage that comes into the house. They don’t go with wine. Absolutely useless. Packets of cashew nuts would make far better gifts.
Brexit happened and now things are shit, therefore it’s all down to Brexit.
That is what the data shows...
Please don’t crop my post and use bits misleadingly. That is data vs models. That have parameters chosen, potentially with a certain outcome in mind.
I've met the author of this study a couple of times and he didn't strike me as the kind of person to manipulate his research to come up with a specific answer. The Centre for European Reform is a pretty serious and well regarded outfit. Of course you are right, the counterfactual is based on a model, as it has to be given we don't have access to a parallel universe. But the analysis by different authors has been pretty consistent (I've even done analytical work on this myself, which suggested a 4% hit to GDP from leaving the single market and moving to an FTA with the EU). I think it is close to an established fact now that Brexit has damaged the British economy. The only questions are how big the impact is, and whether public opinion will view it as a price worth paying.
Which is fair, but my original point was that Brexit has done some harm, but it’s swamped by covid and the war and the public is not able to our willing to see that everything being shit is not just Brexit. They see the struggles we are having, lots of people shout Brexit is shit and that message is hitting home. And it’s not the whole story. It’s no surprise in this climate that the rejoin/stay out ratio has shifted, but it’s artificial as the main drivers of the economic issues are not solely Brexit.
Sure, that's fair (especially on the war, I think the Covid stuff is behind us now). Of course when we were in the EU there were plenty of people ready to blame that for everything that went wrong so I'm not going to shed too many tears about Brexit getting the blame for stuff that's not related to it. And the whole point of the CER counterfactual exercise is to use data from other countries also affected by Covid and Ukraine to try to isolate the Brexit effect. You're right though that if the economy improves people may become more forgiving of the Brexit penalty, we'll just have to wait and see. I'm in no rush to rejoin anyway, we need to stew in our juices for a while yet.
Worst thing about Christmas is all the sweets and sickly garbage that comes into the house. They don’t go with wine. Absolutely useless. Packets of cashew nuts would make far better gifts.
Clearly need to train the relatives better… I’ve gradually shifted from tat to single malt. It’s hit and miss, but better to have consumables.
The problem is, it used to be about having a job. There's plenty who have full time jobs now and can't make ends meet. Meanwhile R4 thinks lack of snow in ski resorts is a story.
It is. It's horrific from a climate change perspective, plus guess how many low paid jobs depend on there being snow in ski resorts?
Worst thing about Christmas is all the sweets and sickly garbage that comes into the house. They don’t go with wine. Absolutely useless. Packets of cashew nuts would make far better gifts.
I've just been having some smoked Catalan almonds with the end of a bottle of red. Worked very well.
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Recorded vote requested - and conceded
So they go around the House again, to decide whether to vote again now or vote again later.
Ditto with Rep-Elect Ken Buck of Colorado, who was also absent yesterday, due to (non-emergency) medical procedure; similar to reason by Democrat Rep-Elect David Trone of Maryland did not vote on today's first roll call
Motion to adjourn until 10.00pm tonight (EST) - Yeas and Nays requested and ordered.
Electronic roll call on motion to adjourn now in progress, open for 15 minutes (at least).
(Which it almost certainly rents off Amazon Web Services or one of the other players in this space.)
But - of course - a GPT user will only use the service for (say) 15 minutes a day, and of that time, only about a tenth of it will be spent actually thinking about responses.
And have REALLY run with it!
It depends - we have no clue on what terms the EU would allow us to join or re-join as I believe no member has ever left and then sought to re-join? No Party can commit to re-joining on that basis - the most would be a commitment to initiate negotiations to see on what terms we might seek to re-join. That kind of wording was basically good enough for 15 years in from the late 50s to the early 70s.
It's hard to see the EU wanting us back without the Single Market and without FoM, we can't be a part of that. Having said that, we remain a large and important economy and establishing a strong economic relationship is in everyone's interests so perhaps rather than worrying about the political relationship, improving and simplifying the economic relationship would be a good start.
HOWEVER, if a "sufficient number" of members request a recorded roll call vote, signified by remaining standing, it is "so ordered". Believe the required threshold is pretty low, maybe a dozen or thereabouts?
Again, this is standard operating procedure. Though usually the Speaker - or more likely another member deputized to preside - is in the chair.
CNN reporting that KMcC is "confident" he will have the votes to be elected Speaker tonight.
No UK Government will attempt to negotiate its way back in, let alone hold another bloody referendum, unless it can be certain of the outcome in advance - and the EU certainly won't want us back if they think there's any realistic prospect of a re-accession attempt being thwarted by rebel politicians and/or popular decent, or of the country growing restless and doing another flounce five or ten years further down the line.
Brentry, like Brexit, is a generational project (at least one generation and quite possibly two.) And what state both the UK and the EU will be in by the second half of the century is anyone's guess. There's about as much point debating the minutiae of whether the country might accept the common currency by that point as there is in discussing how we're going to go about setting up a colony on the Moon.
Given what I've seen of the earliest iterations of it, it's a pretty poor use for something that could be so much more. But that seems to be the play.
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1611151176447164418
But I was as disappointed as a Man U fan was with David De Gea letting the ball through his legs. Or maybe I was already. Not sure.
I think that in order to reverse its electoral fortunes after a couple of terms in opposition the Conservative party will flip back to the pro-business, pro EEC/EU position that it held for a half century, until 2016.
The question is what their LLM's got that can't easily be replicated, the same way DALLe got overtaken by other AI image generators, which is why I balk at the $30bn valuation. What proprietary tech is does OpenAI have that Google can't create a competitor to, or a nerd with a 10k graphics card can't run an open source version of at home? (assuming an open source LLM will be around in a year or two).
It is the white graduate suburban vote who will determine the 2024 election most likely and Buttigieg has more appeal with them.
A comment on John Redwood's blog says this - citing the Renewable Energy Foundation - I've asked for a link:
"That despite the increase in interconnector capacity, which has allowed much more export of surplus wind, often at low or even negative prices while being heavily subsidised by UK consumers. This is a major scandal, with subsidies of the full strike price of up to £187.47/MWh on CFDs and over £200/MWh for floating wind on ROCs for the benefit of other countries."
So interconnectors mean the UK consumer is not only subsidising the foreign owners of UK wind farms for providing power (and not providing power) to the UK, but for providing it at bargain bin prices to everyone else. The more you look at the system, the more putrid it reveals itself to be.
Or maybe not...
That’s bollocks of course, and everyone bar Scott knows this. Brexit has been negative but it’s not the gross reason for inflation being so high, or indeed the NHS struggles.
Until the economy turns round and the NHS starts to recover, and this could take a long, long time and a new government, the public will keep on associating all ills with Brexit.
These sorts of price signals are useful information to the market to ensure that as much of the wind power generated is used or stored when it's available, and that we still have enough supply when there isn't much wind. If people abroad are being paid to use our wind energy across the interconnectors then that means there's a big price signal for people to invest in energy storage in Britain. The market will work it out. Transition periods can always be a bit messy.
I wouldn't get too hung up on what happens in isolation at these extremes. It's the aggregate effect that matters.
Where is everyone?
https://twitter.com/kallmemeg/status/1611483280733360142
The government website no longer says NHS waiting lists will be coming down "by March"
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclusive-rishi-sunak-accused-quietly-editing-one-of-pm-promises_uk_63b844f4e4b0d6724fc39a07
Interesting piece in The Atlantic on Bidens approach to the blue collar voters of middle America.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/01/biden-economic-job-growth-blue-collar-workers-infrastructure-legislation/672649/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Will it do better than Trumpite Culture War? It is a very 1960s Democrat approach.
On the upside there's a nice box of biscuits. Untouched.
Our heads haven't gone down. Nor are we being routinely outplayed. Yet we keep getting beaten.
Particularly annoying. We hold our own against the top clubs. Don't look out of our depth at all.
Consistently lose at home against anyone in the bottom eight.
Goodison is utterly toxic.
Think we'll go down. Get a new stadium, and the evil spirits will be exorcised. Not sure what we did to deserve this.
It isn't the managers fault. We've had a string of world class managers who've failed at Everton.
Have been posting occasionally but do find brexit, indyref2, and AI tedious
I have said I like Sunak, and he is the only conservative that stands a chance of mitigating GE24
If Dems deliver both the jobs and talk and act like they're on their side (I.e. don't patronise them and other them as angry white men) then, yes, they might get their votes.
Hillary lost the EC in 2016 by focusing only on high information and tech or glamorous jobs on the coasts
3 doses of liquid MDMA and I wouldn't give a shit if I had stage 4 cancer.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/06/chatgpt_cybercriminals_malicious_code/
There's plenty who have full time jobs now and can't make ends meet.
Meanwhile R4 thinks lack of snow in ski resorts is a story.
Of course you are right, the counterfactual is based on a model, as it has to be given we don't have access to a parallel universe. But the analysis by different authors has been pretty consistent (I've even done analytical work on this myself, which suggested a 4% hit to GDP from leaving the single market and moving to an FTA with the EU).
I think it is close to an established fact now that Brexit has damaged the British economy. The only questions are how big the impact is, and whether public opinion will view it as a price worth paying.
However we’ve more often than not been in a net export position this last year because of French nuclear downtime. UK exports of electricity in 2022 were 1.9tw hours, at a value of $3.8 billion.
It’s no surprise in this climate that the rejoin/stay out ratio has shifted, but it’s artificial as the main drivers of the economic issues are not solely Brexit.
It's the Tory government's fault.
I think the government has under invested in health over the last decade, and there are other issues, but covid and the war have been huge effects, which are swamping everything else.
I do. It's wicked.
Worst thing about Christmas is all the sweets and sickly garbage that comes into the house. They don’t go with wine. Absolutely useless. Packets of cashew nuts would make far better gifts.