Patrick Holden
patrickholden.bsky.social
Patrick Holden
@patrickholden.bsky.social
Irish academic at the University of Plymouth, IR/ Political Economy/EU Policy.
I like the last sentence, it's what Wittgenstein would have written if he had written a book on customs unions (but he was too lazy to do that, or too smart).
December 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
This is actually common sense to lots of people, many are surprised to learn that, for example, American MNC exports from Ireland are deemed 'Irish exports'.
November 17, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Oh yes well I'm sure your instincts are right then. I wouldn't do it for the sake of it.
October 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Well it's kind of silly but as it has no restraint and access to wide info you can have an unconstrained dialogue with it. you can literally ask it anything, say to make up a dialogue between Trump and Hayek or write a speech - or more specifically bounce ideas off it -you'll get something back...
October 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
It's useful for large scale policy analysis and basic thematic coding of texts. Counter-intuitively it is quite good for helping to generate ideas. (You can also create agents where you have inputted the sources -say some reliable official sources - and then it should be reliable).
October 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM