hern.bsky.social
AI writer at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
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Yeah, if you ask an AI model to do the calculation it will do it the same way if you ask me: pull out a calculator and just run it.
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i’m not saying it’s not the correct way of doing things but for a half-aware politics follower it is hard to do the maths and realise that the winter fuel payments cut – a change that was dismissed as far too small for the political pain inflicted – covers half the annual cost of HS2
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Oh it came back
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Posting to policy pipeline progressing apace
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(On interest)
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No, it’s a 20% rebate
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@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
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The index example in the piece has been mocked but it feels similarly on point. I can read three books and get a lot of serendipity; or flick just to the pages mentioned in the index and get a lot less serendipity from a few hundred.
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i'd rather not actually
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Wrong — anti-Mac hatred clouding your judgment again. Sad to see
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I use M-dashes
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EV transition
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Am I allowed to describe myself as a younger leftist
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You either die the loser husband or live long enough to become the fit dad
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☺️
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Planning authority absolutely requires this stuff. Play areas in particular are usually a condition, and must be open to the public rather than behind gates
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I live in one
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There’s no principle behind why I have to pay for those services and people who live in older houses don’t.
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I pay a huge service charge. It covers picking litter on the street outside my house; powering and fixing the streetlights; repairing the roadway; installing and maintaining the public playground in the square; and a thousand other small things that, if I lived in a house, would be done by a council
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wot
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Reminder that canonically the Earth in the DC Universe is physically larger than our Earth, so that the USA is the same shape but has more land area, so that it can fit all the cities we have and also all the cities they have
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Was a real misfire in that Jenrick video
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Blippo bsky.app/profile/jump...
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You’ll never guess which specific use of ANPR is outlawed by primary legislation
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Being deliberately driven at by an untaxed driver while pushing a pram across a zebra crossing is a fun little coda to yesterday’s discussion about whether self driving cars will be bad for pedestrians
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It can’t, it’s illegal without legislation. But as someone who loves not being killed by cars my priority here is to support legislation that rolls this out asap, and secondarily, to crush human drivers
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Right - it’s a different landscape which is why Wayve is going “we’re not late we’re just doing a harder task”. It’s a tale for investors, not a dogwhistle to legislators.
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If human drivers are replaced by robots, then emotional men blowing their top at someone lowering their average speed through zone one from 10mph to 9mph would decline 100x too
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Ultimately the people who go puce with rage over pedestrians in the roadway aren’t passengers in buses or the backseats of taxis, but human drivers.
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I agree! I was writing articles like the original one a decade ago, when this was all hypothetical. But now it’s not, and I think it’s useful to include actual detail from the rollouts here