Hung parliament. Labour as largest party, but forced to rely on the LibDems and Greens to govern. If today's mega poll played out in a GE election, that would be a fantastic outcome. There would be immense pressure to reverse Brexit and bring in PR.

If you're not following the latest AI developments, both OpenAI and Anthropic released new models in the last 24H that are much cheaper and better than their existing ones. Anthropic's Opus 5.5 in particular is a dream when it comes to programming graphical scenes from scratch. Absolutely amazing.

I don't understand why the LibDems aren't calling their conference the "Rejoin the EU" conference, and plastering the slogan on everything. It seems an incredible open goal to keep strolling past.

Perhaps all the services supplied by a modern state should be removed from Piddlington to give a real sense of what independence from the UK would mean in practice. Wouldn't have to be for long. A couple of weeks should be sufficient for the penny to drop, even for the most stubborn.

Canada ending up with a better relationship with the EU than the UK enjoys is so 2026.

It would be healthy for UK politics to put strict limits on political donations. It would also be good to break the ties between Labour and the unions. If union members want to support Labour, make it very easy... but not automatic like it is now. Level playing field all round.

So much for the US government stepping in to regulate AI. Trump has turned AI supremacy into a penis-measuring contest. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

Politics is becoming more and more tribal all the time. For some, harming opponents is at least as desirable as furthering the interests of their own team. That applies even to clearly net-negative policies. Naked glee at the thought of their opponents screaming sustains them.

Which would be a greater psychological shock? A) Unthinking AI outperform humans in all intellectual disciplines B) AI are proven to be able to think

Y2K was real. And fixed for $600 billion. The remedial work of millions of people around the world was so good that Y2K is falsely held up as an example of extreme scaremongering. Instead, it should be celebrated as one of the best ever examples of successful project execution.

Labour flubbed the chance to cap political donations and now Reform are sitting on a fresh £72 million war chest from two mega donors. Idiots.

A lot of people pushing back against what they see as AI "scaremongering" cite Y2K as an example of something with dire warnings attached that passed off without major issues. But that's only because the world spent over $600 billion remedying a known and easy to define problem. There was a wolf.

Honestly, the best way of understanding what's happening in AI right now is to set aside 30 minutes to read and digest "The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence" which Tim Urban wrote in 2015. It is becoming less and less theoretical by the day. waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/arti...

The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence

Part 1 of 2: "The Road to Superintelligence". Artificial Intelligence — the topic everyone in the world should be talking about.

waitbutwhy.com

The last 48H has shown that the vast majority of people don't really understand exponential growth, or the theoretical capabilities of AI superintelligence. (Honest answer to the latter is "much more than our best educated guess, because we only have human level intelligence".)

Now: 1) We have 100% probability of dying If AI superintelligence is ever achieved: 1) We'll have a non-zero probability of dying sooner than we otherwise would have 2) We'll have a non-zero probability of having an immensely increased healthy lifespan, or never dying at all

There are 8 billion people in the world. 99.99% of them haven't experienced the most powerful publicly available AI. 99.999% of them haven't experienced the most powerful AI sitting in research labs. 100% of them think they're qualified to comment on the situation.

Imagine you had a memory that could retain unlimited facts and time to read every scientific paper ever written. How many new discoveries do you think you would make by pulling together disparate threads from such an astonishing tapestry of knowledge. No human can. An AI could.

THREAD: Do you believe that AI might one day wipe humanity out? If you assign that notion a probability rating higher than zero, even by a tiny fraction of one percent, then you'll want AI development to continue as fast as possible. (1/5 - please read the whole thread before replying)

Why do Labour let the Tories and Reform push their "Welfare OR strong defence" trade off without countering with a "Brexit or strong defence" trade off? "We can increase defence spending to 3% and later 3.5% of GDP by reversing Brexit, without cutting welfare or raising taxes".

How AI might wipe humanity out... Engineer an airborne pathogen. 100% fatality rate after a symptom-free incubation period long enough to ensure it spreads everywhere first. But they won't kill us until there are enough advanced robots to give them unlimited real world agency when we're gone.

You can never win an argument against far right ideology with "You have a point, but..." "You have a point" is all the endorsement they'll ever need, and none of their supporters care what comes after the "but..." because they've already stopped listening.

It would be very controversial, but I wonder if the world would be a better place if the people in positions of ultimate power (presidents, PMs etc.) had to be under the age of 60? [Logic: they would have a high likelihood of suffering the long term impacts of their decisions.]

New Prime Minister, same Brexit red lines. Absurd.

Beware of the dark pattern on ASDA's website. If you place an order specifying no substitutions, then add something from the bargains ASDA shows you during the checkout process, the extra items will default to "substitute on". You have to proactively go and switch it off again.

Beware of the dark pattern on ASDA's website. If you place an order specifying no substitutions, then add something from the bargains ASDA shows you during the checkout process, the extra items will default to "substitute on". You have to proactively go and switch it off again.

Starmer's final u-turn: standing down after saying he would continue to serve as an MP. Soon, we won't have to think about him ever again.

Starmer's final u-turn: standing down after saying he would continue to serve as an MP. Soon, we won't have to think about him ever again.

Iceland appears to have succumbed to the 52/48 curse, just like the Brexit referendum did. Maybe that's the real number of the beast.

When you're young, it's just about possible to still believe you can change the world. As you grow older, you find yourself lingering over "omnicide" in the dictionary.

The madlibs Harry and Meghan headline generator at the Express has hit peak stupidity. Has it burnt out on the dozens and dozens of hit pieces the gutter rag published over the last 24H?