Clark was a rum cove, even at the time. But also, now is better than then in a number of important ways. (View Post)

It simply aims to please. We don't like to say it out loud, but humans largely respond better to confidently wrong than to correct diffidence. See lots and lots and lots of election results. (View Post)

That's probably also true at an individual level. I could (and am sometimes encouraged to, including as government policy) take the misery out of teaching by using AI to generate lessons, or feedback… (View Post)

How did Keir respond to being put on an official warning? (View Post)

Back in the day, the Sunday Telegraph had a cartoon strip based on some very middle class aliens. The sort of aliens who would have read the Sunday Telegraph when it was only mildly eccentric. "… (View Post)