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Professor of Behavioural Science, University of Warwick. Associate editor, Management Science Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uhMoc_8AAAAJ&hl=en Strategic Information Network: https://sites.google.com/view/strategicinf

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Who’s a Better Writer: A.I. or Humans? Take Our Quiz. (Gift Article) A.I. chatbots contain the sum of all human knowledge. That can make them pretty good writers.

A lot of discussion online about this. A lot of copium. Most popular books from now on will be partly AI written. Soon authors will have to place themselves in a glass box with pen and paper to ensure us that they actually wrote what they claimed. Or we just won't care. Or we will stop reading.

10.03.2026 12:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I agree with you about McCarthy, but really this test is incredibly interesting.

10.03.2026 12:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I am not sure this headline is accurate. There is a lot of evidence.

10.03.2026 09:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There is no answer, at least none that anyone would be willing to give.

09.03.2026 14:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Attacks leave dead vs killed

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We are at the illusory weapons of mass destruction phase.

03.03.2026 19:25 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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UK will allow US to use bases to strike Iranian missile sites, says Starmer The prime minister says it remains the case that the UK will

The UK has gone to war. Just like that.

02.03.2026 10:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Simply not true’ UK is being dragged into Iraq-style conflict, says foreign secretary Yvette Cooper says plans under consideration to evacuate about 300,000 Britons from Middle East amid Iran war

Reassuring news

02.03.2026 08:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Family voting.

27.02.2026 16:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Fraud at the polls
Fraud at the polls YouTube video by Gene Zitver

Every election has a "fraud at polls" candidates.

27.02.2026 16:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

If you put it into perspective it is only around 1500 connections per person.

26.02.2026 10:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

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Wow I would like to be there. But here is my ballot anyway.

20.02.2026 12:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We can only hope

19.02.2026 17:39 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why Other Democracies Don’t Gerrymander Like the U.S.

Q: Why do other democracies not gerrymander like the US?
A: Because they are democracies.

18.02.2026 13:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Plan to increase youth minimum wage could be delayed Government sources tell BBC News they could slow down plans to make minimum wage equal across age groups.

Every day we are seeing the government aggressively deliver on more of its promises.

18.02.2026 10:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You read the book?

09.02.2026 22:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It also depends on the PROBABILITY of the answer being correct or incorrect. The fact is that if you ask for answers from humans you would find the same effect -- incorrect answers would have the same confidence as correct ones.

09.02.2026 13:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | Trump Wants More Jobs for Americans. He’s Getting More Robots Instead.

"Many of the jobs performed by immigrants are best understood as a kind of mirage. They exist only because immigrants are available to perform them."

09.02.2026 13:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I expect if we just left the ocean alone for 100 years there would be a lot more to discover.

06.02.2026 17:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Colleges See Major Racial Shifts in Student Enrollment

The shift is: A lot fewer black and hispanic people in top schools. The power structure reasserts itself.

03.02.2026 18:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Helen was from Troy?

02.02.2026 18:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Amongst the curses of the world, how big a curse is the "out of office" email?

02.02.2026 13:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Selection bias will be overwhelming for this one.

31.01.2026 16:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Melania review – Trump film is a gilded trash remake of The Zone of Interest Dispiriting, deadly and unrevealing – there is a decent documentary to be made about the former model from Slovenia, but this one is unredeemable

You just know that every word of this review is true.

30.01.2026 18:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Amazon’s Promotion of β€˜Melania’ Has Critics Questioning Its Motives

Strange headline. I don't believe anybody is questioning Amazon's motives.

30.01.2026 13:50 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for the tip

29.01.2026 15:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Still is a "pretty good" grammar school. One of the best in the country.

29.01.2026 12:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Like the days of Woody Guthrie.

28.01.2026 19:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I very much want to see this

28.01.2026 13:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0