4. This is a completely deranged view of human nature, that those who are capable of rigorous scientific and technological work must be pure "truth-seekers" who can't also be moral monsters. All of history tells us that's false. But more than anything else, it's a self-justification...

The notion that Rayner or Burnham would represent a change to an "avowedly left wing government" is too ridiculous to take seriously tbh

Here from one of the originators of socio-technical systems

sistemas-humano-computacionais.wdfiles.com/local--files...

Being a precocious smartarse “how are we going to cope with the mass unemployment from the microchip revolution?” was a thing in the early 80s

Anyway, if you didn't read it last year, the Levy clip and @birmingham81.bsky.social both feature in my very long story of Under Mi Sleng Teng for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Double typo in the first subhead! Antonio Romero!

"How powerful is plain text at describing the world, how well-represented is plain text by the existing training corpus, to what extent is that imposed structure effective at guiding a random manifold sampler to the "right" answer, and how is that similar to what humans do?" are very real questions!

It’s deeply unsteadily left though - profound distrust of markets in economic/labour policy but acutely shy of incentive skews in tax policy. Spending more on public services, but wilfully insufficient amounts to repair some of the most visible parts. Pro growth in rhetoric, but little in policy.

Probably too progressive to raise enough for what the public expects! Hello from Denmark: the taxes here are high on everyone, but it works well. (The racism isn’t great though).

Plus on tax, Labour (wrongly) 'ruled out' tax rises pre- election. That's unsustainable, but without a tax raising plan they've reverted to either pre packed Treasury plans (like employer NI) or slightly random ones. Progressive taxation is "left wing", but tax increases per se are not "left wing"