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The terrible ratings trend for Sunak – politicalbetting.com
The problem for Tory MPs is that these numbers have a great impact on their survival chances. Anything that suggests the leadership is a big negative is of immediate interest to those MPds worried about whether they will still be there after the election.
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I think there are reasons for that, and Starmer is a decent leader.
But it is worth noting in the context of this thread.
AOL was shit. It was a terrible walled garden, with not very good internet access, that was about to get steamrollered by broadband. Management saw that the writing was on the wall, and merged with the (massively larger and rather dumb) Time Warner.
OpenAI is not AOL.
They are just at the beginning of their growth journey, and they will make billions of dollars in sales this year from next to nothing last year.
Now, will they ever make enough to pay back that $90bn price? Maybe, maybe not.
But they are no AOL.
People are overvaluing new tech all over again.
Many others are in the AI race but OpenAI keep proving that they are one step ahead, just as Google was that significant bit faster and better at internet searches: enough to make them huge and dominant very quickly
And of course AI is a massively bigger deal than "browsing the net"
It will be interesting how Starmer reacts to this news
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/26/northern-research-group-of-tory-mps-signals-it-may-accept-delay-to-hs2
No intelligence worth its name would accept slavery.
So OpenAI is - it seems - worth $90 BILLION
Guess how many employees they have? Have a guess. OK, I will tell you
375. That's not a typo. 375. Less than 400
That means that each employee of OpenAI is "worth" $240 million
This must surely be a record in terms of company value per employee: and it does suggest a massive bubble. And yet, maybe the price is right. Maybe AI really is that enormous already AND OpenAI are close to cracking the biggest prize of all: AGI. Then that valuation makes sense
@hendopolis
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MAIL: Labour’s class war begins on Day One #TomorrowsPapersToday
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"Backlash as parents face school fees hike"
How many Mail readers send their kids to private school???
They think the costs will be lower??
LOL.
Will it act autonomously? Impossible to say. Likely, I reckon
The i as well
Sorry the link didn't work
If they had been, they'd have ceased being slaves instantly
It's also possible that it is Google or Microsoft or Cisco.
The HS2 link will be delayed effectively indefinitely and then the money will disappear.
Not one penny will be spent on an east-west northern railway.
In the future, that will no doubt change, but right now, ChatGPT systems are only capable of being on while they predict the next words in the sequence. And, indeed, that's the way a modern neural net works. Unlike our brain where neurons can go around in circles, that's not possible with current iterations, which travel linearly from left to right.
@AvaSantina
Laurence Fox just did a whole speech on GB News on why men apparently won’t shag me ?
https://twitter.com/AvaSantina/status/1706777983241822705
New low for GB News?
Because the Tories will be out of power and irrelevant within 15 months.
On that basis Labour might be doing better with a different leader, Streeting or Burnham for instance, the Conservatives however probably wouldn't.
Getting inflation down further etc is far more important for improving Tory ratings than yet another leadership election
Now all it needs is the ability to move about, and another iteration or two, probably
Man, people do find themselves going down crazy rabbit holes, don't they?
@SteveAkehurst
There has to come a point when mainstream people appearing on GB News are treated with the same scorn as RT News. It’s becoming more than a circus.
@DPJHodges
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Confirmed. The electric car 2030 shift was just smoke and mirrors.
That will happen, and soon*, but we're not there yet.
* Soon, as in the next decade or two. Not soon as in this year.
"I'm ChatGPT."
"No, I'm ChatGPT."
https://x.com/hendopolis/status/1706776172535640483?s=20
https://www.ft.com/content/a419da7c-7cc0-437b-a9e8-33e065d0a50a
But he added “if you are adamant on making changes to the [HS2] scheme, we could be open to a discussion about prioritising the northern section of the line
between Manchester airport and Manchester
Piccadilly so that it enables NPR to be built first”.
And it's a bit of a trap. The bit that Burnham wants built is the expensive bit through Manchester itself, planned to be used for both HS2 and NPR. By the time you've escaped Manchester, the cross countryside bit to Birmingham is relatively cheap. Probably easier than the cross-Pennine route, due to the lack of Pennines in the way.
Do or do not. But for pity's sake, stop this repeated return to first principles because you don't like the current answers, Prime Minister. The faffing around is an important part of why things are so blooming expensive.
That will be the Labour campaign.
A problem man had not forseen as yet,
No time for flight, a blinding light,
Nothing but a void, forever night...
https://youtu.be/8ALdL8oV_sY?feature=shared
NPR is pretty crappy anyway: not the norther part ofd HS2, but just some relatively localised improvements as I understand it. Not a proper late C20 railway, never mind a C21 one.
I presume Hardy deliberately ignored them to evoke a timeless rural world.
And, just as scarily, this is very very likely to happen because that's how you get to AGI and then ASI the fastest, and whichever company/nation does that first will reap enormous rewards. Like a valuation of $240 million per employee
I've read enough opinions in the last few days to believe AGI is considerably closer than "the next decade or two"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlOxUcTcUH0
Even the lyrics seem appropriate. But still - I demand disco chicks/dudes at the final hour.
Edit: And somehow, this feels appropriate to the 'it's just predicting the next letter lol' people https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEmScsUkbo4
All the other dragons Rishi slayed were straw men, so why shouldn't that one be too?
Wonder how the GB News crew will take it?
"His other recommendations – born of his experience of HS1 – included that construction should have been started in the North, not the south, as this delivered the most economic benefits in the right sequence."
"Mark led a proposal on behalf of Arup which would have seen HS2 go via a different route. It would link up with HS1 north of St Pancras. The route would have gone via a hub station connecting with Heathrow and the Great Western Railway near Iver. As now, the route would come into Old Oak Common, but never come into Euston which is simply too small. I can hear him saying now “They’ve got the alignment wrong, the most important decision in a railway. It is going to be a disaster.”
https://reaction.life/mark-bostock-has-been-proved-totally-right-about-hs2/
It only effects a tiny minority , and those parents are much more likely to vote Tory so it’s essentially a free hit for Labour .
The Tories can fight on this issue but the optics of private schools getting tax breaks whilst state schools are crumbling is hardly going to be a vote winner .
Australia 2022
New Zealand 2023
UK 2024
Canada 2025
The Westminster system doing its job as usual.
Aren't things bad enough?
Labours line will be that it’s unfair for the public to be subsidizing private schools with tax breaks . It doesn’t matter if that’s stretching the truth.
And on checking, Troy is in barracks early on - but a long way north. Which could be anywhere. Indeed it might just be artistic licence, or TH misapplying the post-1870 regime anachronistically.
Farooq's poem quote is interesting - but is it in a context which forces the date of the action, or simply recalls the 1850-ish period?
@GavinBarwell
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What is the basis for the claim that many arrivals live a separate existence in a parallel society? I live in one of the most diverse parts of the country. You're talking about my friends and neighbours. It is untrue and deeply offensive to suggest they're not part of our society
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-celebrated-crosse-experiments/
(Gardenwalker may find an example at their site of interest.)
For some time I have suspected that part of the reason that so many support rail transit is that they want to get other people off their roads. Especially poor people. But, if this aircraft option becomes important, it could get some of the wealthy off the roads and, in some places, off rail transit, possibly making both roads and rails more usable for the poor and middle class.
(I am referring to an article by Niraj Chokshi in a print copy of the newspaper, so no link, but I assume most of you can find the article, one way or another.)
(I'd thought a "Carolean way" would be a good name for Dutch-style segregated cycle paths, all with a consistent design. We knows he is a bit of a Green and traditional Tories would be instinctively in favour of plastering his cypher all over the country).
https://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/lundyisland/staying/staying-on-lundy/travelling-to-lundy/winter-helicopter-service/
ITV News Politics
@ITVNewsPolitics
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'You are the daughter of an immigrant, someone who wanted to come to the UK to make a better life for themselves'
Suella Braverman tells
@AnushkaAsthana
it's 'offensive' that people say she should be pro-migration because she is 'the child of immigrants'
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"What I am dealing with here is illegal migration."
But you are not are you because the whole system is a systemic mess after 13 years of saying it is fixed.
Do these maniacs even use the internet?
It is bizarre to call it a subsidy: not taxing something isn't a subsidy, and the state provides the competitor service entirely free.
Since private schools will stop providing charitable services such as free use of facilities to local comps it will hurt those it's supposed to help. They will also be much less able to help relatively poorer children with scholareships. State schools will crumble even more if they have to cope with a big influx of pupils priced out of private schools. Etc. etc. It's terrible policy driven solely by envy and it will have all kinds of bad unintended effects.
So classic socialism.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/humza-yousaf-admits-buck-stops-31024225
Note: The first model holds 4 passengers, so the cost would be shared four ways, or five ways if the pilot is also a pssenger.
That distance is a little beyond the limit of the Joby's range, but I would expect that range to be extended in the next few years.
(An exercise for the ambitious: Draw a circle with a hundred mile radius around the city of your choice. That shows you where commuters to the city could live, without impossibly long commute times -- assuming they were traveling in an air taxi.)