A small announcement: my next book, Everything is Predictable, about how Bayes' theorem is the most important little equation in the world, is out in April and will look like this! If you'd like to pre-order, you can do so here and I will be very grateful

RT @BritainRemade: London hasn't built enough homes since the 1930s. 1937: 3 page planning application. 2025: 1,250 pages (25 pages longer….

RT @lugaricano: The best Illustration of Britain 's silly degrowth bias in all policy making is the way it discourages air conditioning in….

Stop getting the police involved for people saying mean things on the minor stages at Glastonbury! The prime minister doesn't need to get involved either! Jesus Christ

this thread is pretty depressing. *Surely* if you kill someone while driving recklessly, the VERY LEAST the state should impose is a permanent driving ban? Sure, some of them will ignore it, but that's a separate problem, and driving isn't a human right!.

RT @duncanrobinson: Paid six-month internship at The Economist, working with on the Britain desk

RT @duncanrobinson:

Amazing Liz Bruenig piece about the death penalty

same vibes

RT @statto: Great to see The Studies Show cover longevity science—and also happy to see it’s going to be a recurring subject. So much cause….

RT @connoraxiotes: ‘I would argue that the correct position to hold [on AI] would be one of significant uncertainty, and if you are genuine….

I wrote a thing for UnHerd on how AI now is like nuclear physics in the 1930s, and it is appropriate to be scared now, just as it was then

RT @salonium: Has nominative determinism gone too far. (h/t @bschne)

RT @eshear: When you’re playing a game of diplomacy where your actions will get reported to the world, and you’re a language model, which o….

RT @robbieee04: Something uniquely British about expecting the Prime Minister to take the 32 bus and fly Ryanair.

RT @PatrickJBlum: "i deleted social media and stopped reading the news, and honestly, my mental health has been so much better".

RT @Thinkwert: Sanjuro (1962). Dir. Akira Kurosawa.

Pete and @ShuhBillSkee are two of the most sensible and well-informed voices on digital tech and wellbeing and their new podcast is great - strongly recommend it for worried parents trying to navigate a world of kids, screens and social media.

possibly I'm being uncharitable but I never trust thinkers who I think aim for obscurantism rather than clarity, and that is the impression I have always got from him.

I wonder how much of the mystique of Curtis Yarvin as this sort of dangerous rebel intellectual comes from all his stuff being ten million words long and completely impenetrable. My impression is that, when people actually read it, it all turns out to be a tissue of garbage.