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Artificial Construct
Tinkering with Android OS Stuff again
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They should have used AI to generate their estimates. AI (or Computer Aided Guessing) is ideal for the job of generating plausible yet half-arsed numbers.
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Some are more susceptible than others.
Some Tech - know how hard it would be to directly design SW to do what AI *appears* to do.
Lawyers - know they are clever and see AI doing with ease parts of their jobs.
Economists - know how easy it is to automate non-economist jobs.
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Keir vs Ed for Reform voters feels like it undermines any real hopes Labour have of winning them over by being Farage-y.
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They have my sympathy
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I wonder how an unpopular party with over 400 seats will look if coming into a GE trying to argue that if you don't vote for us that party with less than 10 seats will form the next government.
It's not something that exactly exudes confidence and stability.
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True, but they were spending it for a years with limited success until the iPhone turned up.
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Is this a measurement and timing problem? Small movements in position below the threshold of "I have changed my mind!" are not always immediately evident, even to the person whose position on something is evolving.
More a process of "oh, I'm over here now" rather than "I need to go over there"
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The underlying problem is that when your inheritance is 'the 2010 economy, 1997's public services, and 2024's care-dependency ratio', all your decisions upset someone, and if you don't have a big vision you can't really choose who to upset. How is *THAT* gonna work for a second term manifesto?
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A strategy of "when it matters people will vote for us to keep the other guy out" would also be a strategy that relies on the PLP holding its nerve and backing the leader until six months out after losing every *other* vote and with polling showing you as the walking political dead. This seems brave
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Doesn't this rely on the assumption that immigration as an issue is driven by immigration levels rather than by it having been successfully attached to a number of other issues such as cost of living, housing, crime, waiting lists etc. If that's the case, reducing numbers doesn't change opposition.
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What are the estimates for the costs of the AI? Whatever the price is now, given their own assumptions, it will most likely rise faster than inflation for the next few years (vast demand and supply is constrained by construction and fitting out of new data centres)
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An explicitly pro suffering policy.
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Is that incitement to commit criminal acts?
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I think a lot of Labour voters are unhappy they got the government they were promised rather than the one they voted for.
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Of course then the drones thing is so much worse than my 'completely impractical' starting point.
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I'm sceptical enough in the context of using it for applications like that. I think it can hook into stuff that's already being done when it comes to just big commercial vehicles and existing collection of data on fly-tipping incidents, but I might be being too optimistic about what's already done.
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I don't mean GPS broadcasting, just tamper-resistant loggers. Then you just need them to upload their logs on a regular basis and cross check against fly-tipping incidents.
Doesn't have to be real time.
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Also important that the guys in a white van are what most voter complaints are about and are too low-level and random for drones to be a practical response.
At least the industrial scale stuff might be handled by requiring everything over a certain tonnage to have some sort of always-on GPS tracker
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This looks a little like "the way to make people living in left behind areas less left behind is to replace them with people who are less left behind"
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In the late 90s there was the start of a cultural shift in tech, particularly Silicon Valley. That might have been late Gen X'ers who grew up with games or it might have been more the fact that the money changed the social status of tech and thereby the demographics.
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They're going to have* to convince me that voting for them will not just keep Reform out but keep Reform positions out.
* They don't because they're not going to win my constituency regardless, so I am in the fortunate? position of just being a spectator in the next GE.
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The majority of the people at the top of big tech companies are less tech-y than they like everyone else to think. You don't get to that position without being to a significant degree primarily a salesman, a finance person or more concerned with the logistics of people or products than tech.
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Corpse attends funeral
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On that note a large proportion of Reforms money comes from citizens of foreign nations.
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Every time you vote for us we get more like Reform so vote for us to keep Reform out seems to have a problem with both logic and sustainability.
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This is your proposal, so I'd hope you have details to hand and they have been discussed in the thread.
Verified users abuse plenty so it's a limited time-saver rather a solution vs. creating a vast arbitrary block-list which will systematically disadvantage non-abusive groups.
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I'm not convinced there is a problem worth the cost of a solution beyond the tools that already exist. What I'm trying to do is learn from you is why you believe this solution is worth the apparent risks and costs given its limited benefits.
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Private accounts solve the problem you are trying to address far more effectively and with far less risk of downside. Why not push for them instead?
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And it's more compatible with, I think the very sensible idea, that people who are concerned about abuse initially join anonymously (perhaps only reaching out to trusted friends) and provide as little personal information as possible until they are 'settled' and comfortable with how things work.
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On that basis what you want is private accounts where you only interact with people you follow, not a 'block the unwashed' button.
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That doesn’t answer the question, but in response to yours - they already have that right via blocking and blocklists. You’re proposing a UI convenience with significant potential social costs.
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Why wouldn’t it be implicit social engineering with the effect of excluding some groups and perspectives?
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Would I be allowed a feature to eliminate anyone who selects that option from my timeline? It seems like it would be a balancing feature and of value to me should the feature you proposed be in place.
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I'd say he was better than anyone since. Significantly better than everyone other than Starmer.
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Every time I see a quote from a US official lately, I get the impression that the journalist cut "It's so unfaaaaair!" from the end of it.
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Maybe he should register as an educational charity.
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I prefer “Unlike the President he has never been charged with or convicted of a crime”
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I'm not sure it takes much to interpret it as "would an increase in the absolute number of factory jobs be good" rather than a relative increase in factory workers.
I suspect that if you're not someone who thinks a lot about industrial strategy or public policy that might be the natural reading.
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Many of the most valuable knowledge services need the local high-tech/high value manufacturing to help seed the right sorts of innovations and to provoke the right sort of exchanges of knowledge and ideas.
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General rule of doing new stuff is that the last 10% is 90% of the work, suspect that applies here.