Chris Hopkins

I'm laughing to myself (in the macabre context of these free speech convos) that iirc, the Elves shorthand for this in lotr is going off 'into the west'.

I’m not sure what the best metaethical stance is for human beings, but LLMs definitely seem to do best with virtue ethics.

Also, you could be using LLM vector response to do interesting testing of moral particularism/reason holism.

This would be super interesting if it holds - though I would really want to see how a sub-maximising rule consequentialist approach would stand up... 🙂‍↕️

I reckon that maximisation is the real root of apparent AI misalignment in consequentialist frameworks.
Deontic just struggling w/ completeness.

Obviously I'm making a very high level point, so v much defer to those working at the coal-face of all this.

So this 'how would snr. mgmt choose compromised tech/products' case was very compelling to me as well. It may still hold for Chinese companies with weaker brands & many competitors

And yet, how does that argument cope with how things have been going state-side?

We're at 'jailbreak f-35s' discourse

'They'll never sell another X'

Well, not if it's them and all of their competitors, all at once. Then there's nowhere to go; whatever is acquiesced to becomes the new industry norm.

Also, they only have to steal some things *once* (data, IP, and digital ID).

'Kill switch?' misses the point tbh.

I used to be much more reassured by this market/competitive argument against state exploitation of tech and consumer products.

But it's not been Chinese behaviour that's changed - it's the pot of water slowly boiling with the US tech oligopolists deference and complicity in all manner of abuses.

Is it an @acjsissons.bsky.social question to ask what the Nesta HP rollout ideation concluded for dense urban units? And if its district heating / shared ground source - how's the progress there going? 👀

(He asks, sitting in 1st floor dense urban building, built in 1880s...)

And culturally, pissing people off to get something done is antithetical to lots of greenism, and of course a populist schtick

I'm somewhat sympathetic to the Dan Davies 'we're not actually at the optimal resource frontier, so there are some magic(ish) buttons to push' to avoid trade-offs.
But they are only available if you take on some smaller, entrenched, allied interests - narrative AND follow through to piss someone off

When it comes to making policy choices around NIMBY pressure points, there's a fracture in the green coalition between green localists and green internationalists.

You could point to a similar fault line running through labour social policy re: trade unionism, in & out groups.

Impressive that US democracy has managed to replicate the "king so bad in a medieval chronicle you wonder if they're real or a symbolic trope for misrule" effect

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

If anything, you should look at that (relatively) smooth UK chart even with all the interconnectors and say 'yes, more please'

Text: If Europe stays on its current trajectory climate damages will drive debt-to-gdp ratios over 100% high than official projections in the worst hit eu countries. With a heat map showing the increase in debt-to-gdp ratios in different EU countries.

🚨NEW: The impact of climate change on our economic stability is being hugely underestimated.

Our latest analysis shows climate damage could drive the EU’s debt-to-GDP ratio 58 percentage points higher than official projections by 2050.

A common enemy?

Note: Caveat for considering energy waste in the primary energy graph - electrification can save loads of losses through the system, so it's not as impossible a task as it looks to transition.
Lets use those electrons directly 💡🔌

We've got a way to go before we're electrified across the economy... It needs to accelerate, and investing to do so will save 💷💷💷 because fossil fuels in today's world aren't firm or cost effective, if they ever were (all things considered, nope 👎)

The oil (and gas... and fertilizer) crisis is a fossil fuel crisis, not an 'energy' one.

In the UK, we (now!) have both the technology and the domestic resources to diversify out of this dependence through electrification. ⚡💨🌤️🔋

But caution, electricity generation isn't (today) our only energy use

Damn you auto correct, economic* geography

'What if political economy and economics had a fight in a bar, and economy geography turned up at the end - disappointed with everyone.'

At this point it's less a question of whether Curtis Jones ran over Slot's dog, and more *how many* of Slot's dog's he's run over.

Caveat on the stats being stuffed full of sub effects this season. But he's just quality.

Ok, who has the power to commission a tight, 800 words on all the corrosive effects of politics adopting more and more of the norms, values and cadence of sport fandom - and sport fandom adopting more and more of the norms, values, and cadence of politics.

Is that trivote theme music...

We humans hate a hypocrite, don't we 😅

I'm examining my own ('not that annoying') emotional response, and given Aveek is right that essentially everyone is at it when it comes to spending - I think what really marks them out is the whiplash between the good vibes spin and the reality of how much is just cash 💰.

Pulling a shiny, rare 'Conditions comorbid to autism' in my first few Wikipedia trading card game pack is just a cosmic joke, and not material evidence of divine teleology in the universe, right... RIGHT? 🌌
#wikigacha

Well, I hear there's llm-sophomore convergence going on, so 😅

browser game that turns Wikipedia articles into trading cards feels so Bluesky it is painful wikigacha.com?lang=EN

Oh no. Oh no. Oh nooo. [Laudatory]