The study of linguistics, and the brain machinery behind it, provides strong evidence that we aren't auto complete machines. (View Post)

Not really. The bookmakers will use AI to set odds, and they will still have more information than the punting AIs, because they will know what bets are being placed, and the point of bookmaking is t… (View Post)

I think that the ordinary people who have participated in citizens assemblies have shown a surprising willingness to compromise and deal with awkward tradeoffs, that they would be a useful addition. … (View Post)

The government had previously talked about gradually increasing defence spending to 2.5%, but in the budget they added a caveat which I think was new. They would aim to increase defence spending to 2… (View Post)

The thing that confuses me about these is that a lot of bad debt seems to be created. The model seems to be to walk away from massive amounts of debt when the business goes bankrupt. So you would thi… (View Post)