It’s not like this was hard to miss either: the only people I met who were happy about Sir Keir’s Labour were middle class professionals who were as keen as anyone to get shot of the Tories, but also absolutely clueless about what the party would be like in government. Nobody else, not one.

You guys are hastening my next rewatch.

I’m not kidding here either: quite clearly, the plan was “We’ll win and then everything will get better because everyone will recognise that we are awesome and love us, and then the economy will boom because that’s what economies do, isn’t it, sooner or later”.

The best comparison in the UK would be Jamie Driscoll in the North East, who was barred from on high for running on the Labour ticket for the new combined North East Mayor despite already being the mayor of North Tyneside.

It also has a sideline as an add-on for bipolar disorder (which turns out to have some complicated metabolic components and insulin resistance as comorbidity). This (and almost all add ons) are mostly ignored on the NHS alas.

I buy grey market metformin in bulk because I do not technically qualify as diabetic. The fact that it enables me to eat carbs like a regular human being without pain and misery is neither here nor there.

Pretty much yes. It's got a lot of essays collected in there, so I hope there's something for everyone with philosophical inclinations.

I knew before I clicked on this that it'd be about onions.

Still, I do hold out some hope for a synthesis of old fashioned knowledge representation (KR) and deep learning natural language processing (NLP). The weakness of the one is the strength of the other, and the path to wisdom lies therein.

I think this is where traditional conceptions of intelligence as a capacity for representation and reasoning get their revenge on contemporary conceptions of intelligence as practical prowess. Though that’s not to advocate a full return to classical computationalism and GOFAI.

This is one reason I’ve taken to distinguishing between intelligence and wisdom. The former might be modular and restricted to specific problem ranges. The latter is general and concerns the ability to understand and revise problem specifications.

It's worth noting that Recall Augmented Generation complicated this story a bit, as there basically can be whole chunks of factual information front-loaded into prompts which drastically improve correctness over those specific facts, but the point is more or less correct.