David Smith
David Smith
@preoccupations.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
“the financial crisis was really so monumental, with the repercussions still playing out in terms of reduced societal trust, extreme politics, lost productivity, and just general malaise”

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October 10, 2025 at 8:15 AM
September 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
“The result is an era in which not only public discourse but government policy risk being guided more by vibes than hard evidence.”

www.ft.com/content/c046...
August 22, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Martin Wolf: The roots of the British malaise lie in a sick economy

www.ft.com/content/8a49...
July 7, 2025 at 5:58 AM
The Illusion of Thinking:
Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models
via the Lens of Problem Complexity (PDF) ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-i...
June 9, 2025 at 4:52 AM
June 4, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Edward Luce: The great Trump riddle on China
www.ft.com/content/d64c...
June 4, 2025 at 6:54 AM
May 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
March 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-...

“Things that inspired this story: The fact certain models are going to have personalities which become 'attractor states' for other models; what notions of love and destiny might feel like to synthetic intelligences; the work of Janus/Repligate.”
March 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
March 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Gideon Rachman: Vance’s real warning to Europe

www.ft.com/content/11f1...
February 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Electric Dreams at Tate Modern — when artists embraced the power of technology

www.ft.com/content/4fdf...
November 24, 2024 at 5:24 PM
“He’s a character, he’s a special guy, he’s a super-genius,” Trump said of Musk on Wednesday. “We have to protect our geniuses, we don’t have that many of them.” www.ft.com/content/f1d4...
November 6, 2024 at 10:06 AM
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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August 5, 2024 at 10:22 PM
From over there:
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UK election debate: Sunak and Starmer clash on betting, taxes and immigration https://www.ft.com/content/061b781e-d4ab-4b55-903a-b2eb31138ab4
June 26, 2024 at 9:02 PM