Every system that was regulated, either explicitly or implicitly, by the fact that they were effortful for humans (letters of recommendation, government filings, essays, or, as this paper finds, lawsuits) will break under a wave of AI.
New post on data centers and land use, where I go into my manifesto for why we should trust farmers less open.substack.com/pub/andymasl...
British politics is resembling the rest of Europe:
• Multi-party competition has replaced two-party dominance
• Challengers are on the rise, esp. the populist right
• Political realignment centres on identity politics (incl Brexit)
But FPTP is poorly suited to this fragmentation
As @danwphilosophy.bsky.social said www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
In a new guest post at Conspicuous Cognition, Tibor Rutar reviews what the evidence actually says about the relationship between immigration and crime - and explains why it doesn't support simplistic culture war narratives. www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/in-europe-...
🔪"And if you have been reading this smugly thinking that this is just true of those foolish people on the other side, then think again, because almost all the consequences of tribalism that we reveal in the book are symmetrical"
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This week’s elections raise questions about the long-term development of Welsh politics.
After years of limited press coverage and voter interest, is Welsh politics finally maturing?
www.thepathnottaken.net/p/welsh-poli...
New conversation with the brilliant David Kipping focusing on the search for aliens, the Fermi paradox, the simulation argument, anthropic reasoning, the role of AI in science, whether "AGI" or “superintelligence” are imminent, and much more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUQ4...
I don't get why a bunch of people on BlueSky instantly concluded this assassination attempt was fake? I mean, like, I guess it could be, wouldn't be the strangest thing to have happened ever. But probably not, surely? What would even be the point of that? Just - why the weird conspiracy brain stuff?
New guest post at 'Conspicuous Cognition' by the excellent Oxford Professor James Tilley. Very interesting findings here.
www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/how-brexit...