I'm not sure it promotes understanding, but there's certainly something about shared civic duty that I'm loathe to give up. Justice seems like it shouldn't be a service that is delivered to citizens but not by them. The problem is for too many people it's not a service being delivered at all.

Busted.

3. Which reminds me: the judge was BRILLIANT. I mean, old school in all the ways that are supposed to be bad. But his instructions were what eventually made it possible to reach a decision we were all happy with. Which is another thing that makes me sympathetic to this move.

2. Stubborn and made their minds up before the prosecution's opening statement was over. In this case the judge's directions eventually made clear that the letter of the law and their personal interpretation of justice were aligned. But it was very easy to see how in other cases it might not be.

1. Yes, but I feel like that choice is another place where there is a gap between the republican ideal and the reality. No one knows each other, one guy sticks his hands up, rest of us go along with it, he turns out to be a dud.

2 jurors made their minds up within 2 mins on the grounds that "anyone coming into their house would get what was coming to them".
1 juror kept nodding off during the trial.
1 juror said she didn't mind what we decided but could we hurry up as she needed to get to work.
Everyone hated the foreman.

In particular 1) it over-emphasises the importance of hyper- personalisation 2) it under-emphasises the importance of IRL social contexts, routines, adults and peers.

FWIW, I'm sure practices varied, but I checked old emails and my letting agent in Southwark included a reminder about the forthcoming licensing regime in every monthly statement from Oct 2022 onwards, a full year before it went live.

(4/4) That's not about policy preferences per se, it's about definition and the arguments you choose to pick to give you that definition.

(3/x) Namely, to find a way of talking to its own coalition that suggests they actually like them, and are listening to them even if they don't always agree or can't always do what they want.

(2/x) Ezra acknowledges it but in the most perfunctory way - he almost seems annoyed - and skips straight past it. Which is a shame, because I think TNC's putting his finger on something that the left often does very badly (especially at the moment) and the right very well.

With any technology, the temptation is to argue that this changes everything or this changes nothing, when the reality at any given moment is nearly always somewhere in between. Then suddenly you look back and it's permeated everything. What feels different this time is how quickly that's happening.

But more than any one task, the thing I suddenly noticed yesterday was the breadth of tasks. Other tech revolutions in my lifetime have been similarly wide-ranging. But the transition from landlines to mobile phones to smartphones to smartphones that can do everything a computer can do took 25 years

The important thing about this last category of tasks is that AI is useful to me precisely because they _are_ within my capability, so I can judge its quality. E.g. none of the email drafts it offered up were quite right, but in that moment, to move forward, I needed to be an editor not a writer.

Some were things that the Old Internet couldn't do. Helping me iterate on the right phrasing for a tricky email. Providing advice on the structure of a potential transaction. Tasks that in the past were certainly within my capability to do, but which it can now help me do better and faster.

In some cases it was tasks the Old Internet has (or at least feels like it has) got worse at. Making new book recommendations for my son based on books he's enjoyed before was supposed to be what recommendation algorithms were for, until they were enshittified. ChatGPT nailed it.

Some were things that the Old Internet could do, but it can do better. Finding a flight that satisfies more complex criteria than the comparison sites can handle. Helping me diagnose and fix a problem with my washing machine.