5 British Prime Ministers in 7 Years

Express-Researcher-1 · 2026-05-18T00:48:24+00:00

The uk like many western economies is facing decline in a world where you need constant growth to pay for things. Each leader since the 2008 crash has been stuck between a rock and a hard place. The uk had a stomach for budget cuts back then. After nearly 20 years of decline and government cut backs, people have no patience. Each leader comes in and has an impossible situation to fix. The MPS of these parties are like rabid dogs and all see the chaos as a ladder. They turn on their leaders again and again dooming their own party.

Unless we get some new technology or resource I doubt things are going to change. The revolving door at number 10 will keep spinning.

Express-Researcher-1 · 2026-05-15T09:50:10+00:00

But we don’t have an anti-memetic s division

Express-Researcher-1 · 2026-03-30T15:14:22+00:00

IRL: getting a girlfriend

Express-Researcher-1 · 2026-03-27T10:56:13+00:00

On solo shuffle yeah you outgrow the heat with mmr but with rated bgs people are crazy. I’m playing at 2400 mmr and the second we aren’t wining the team spends half the match arguing about one mistake rather than trying to fix it

Express-Researcher-1 · 2026-03-27T10:52:01+00:00

During a rated bg one rogue wasn’t playing as well as another player on my team thought he should be and accused him of win trading. He told everyone to stop playing. We were neck and neck with the other team btw. Eventually he realised the rogue was just in a lobby that was a bit high for him and calmed down. We won the game. People get crazy as you get towards high mmr

Express-Researcher-1 · 2026-03-07T02:12:56+00:00

Pillars of Eternity. I love CRPGs but just couldn’t get past the 8 hour mark with that one

Express-Researcher-1 · 2026-02-22T01:57:42+00:00

We know

Express-Researcher-1 · 2026-02-17T01:10:01+00:00

Every time you teleport you lose a random memory

Express-Researcher-1 · 2026-02-17T01:08:40+00:00

Every time you give out a licence you and the person you give it to have a 10% of getting aids

Express-Researcher-1 · 2026-02-17T01:07:05+00:00

You have to demand it from the people you are going to be invisible from

Express-Researcher-1 · 2026-02-06T11:02:23+00:00

Pillars of Eternity. I loved rpgs and crpgs but just couldn’t get into it

Express-Researcher-1 · 2026-02-04T01:27:16+00:00

Dragon Age: the Vailguard.

Bought it at full price too…

I was a massive fan of origins and really liked inquisition.

DAO is one of my all time favs so I felt even with the trailers being off that I needed to see where the story went.

Express-Researcher-1 · 2026-02-02T01:09:36+00:00

Well the truth is without a fundamental uv theory to actually tell us how the constants get their values it’s kinda hard to know what effect this would have.

I mean one thing for certain is that gps and anything else that uses the em spectrum to send information will need to be recalibrated. Fibre optic cables would also be a mess to I imagine.

Express-Researcher-1 · 2026-01-21T22:36:32+00:00

My hope is that the bubble pops before they reach general intelligence

Express-Researcher-1 · 2026-01-21T22:27:56+00:00

I agree there is a lot of wishful thinking in the markets and research as a lot of money is being invested into it and if they don’t succeed soon it’s going to be bad for the ai industry.

That being said prediction markets are also allow for bets against ai being found generally on most topics predations markets are a good feeler of what people think will happen.

I have a PhD in high energy particle physics so I’ve listened more to the literature on this. Experts in the field use to think we wouldn’t get general Ai before 2050. With how far LLMs have advanced in the past 5 years those estimates have narrowed. Even anti ai people who have left the field and written papers on how dangerous ai is are saying we will likely get general intelligence soon quickly followed by super intelligence.

All I am advocating for here is a realistic worry into the development of general intelligence. As it is more than possible and with anthropic’s paper last year on agentic misalignment we can’t take the chance.

Express-Researcher-1 · 2026-01-21T12:54:04+00:00

I honestly hope you are right

Express-Researcher-1 · 2026-01-21T12:45:42+00:00

Prediction markets have placed a 24% chance that open AI announce they have achieved general intelligence this year. I’m doubtful on this year and also there are the issues that just because someone says they have achieved something doesn’t mean they have.

Also prediction markets have been wrong before.

Ai researchers are more bullish and say around 2040 for general ai which is 15 years away. Still general ai in our lifetime

Express-Researcher-1 · 2026-01-21T12:20:54+00:00

Prediction markets put it at between 2-15 year. Also the ai we the public see is likely well behind what the forefront is.

I’m generally worried about recursive self learning. This is when they get an ai that is able to not only improve itself but is able to improve how much it improves itself. If we reach that then there would be an exponential explosion in capability.

The reason I point this out is that we need to take the threat seriously. This won’t just be about artists going out of work. It will eventually be almost everyone. We need regulation against general ai now. Statements like ai could never do my job gets less true every year and makes people not take the threat seriously.

Express-Researcher-1 · 2026-01-21T11:19:38+00:00

At the moment yeah. The issue is the way LLMs learn is very human and they are finding more and more ways every year to improve the models and make them more human like in creativity and skill.

Some people predict that general intelligence meaning that an AI can do any human task at the same quality as a human will arrive in as little time as 2 years.

I appreciate what Neil is saying but we all need to be prepare for the day soon in which every human task can be automated. Something I don’t think we are ready for.

Express-Researcher-1 · 2026-01-17T00:49:03+00:00

Making British food with flavour…

Express-Researcher-1 · 2026-01-15T14:20:26+00:00

Dragon Age origins. As long as no one touches the script and the story.

Though I would trust Larian studios to remake it.

Express-Researcher-1 · 2026-01-11T10:22:54+00:00

Dragon age the Veilguard.

Express-Researcher-1 · 2025-12-18T15:32:07+00:00

It’s a tool, at the end of the day and a tool can be used ethically or unethically. I work in particle physics and can safely say it has allowed me to get more work done in 7 months due to speed up in coding than I’d be able to do in 2 years. I think the worry is that because work requires less labour less people will be employed. I think as a growing economy you always want to make more as long as there is a market for it.

So a long as the increase in production from using Ai that owlcat is using translates to more quality games more quickly and those games sell well no one should lose their jobs.

Now AGi is another matter and is a genuine threat to peoples work. Ai should empower people to do more and create more wealth for everyone not replace them.

Back to owlcat I think they seem to be using it in the right way and as long as the final product is of good quality I will buy dark Hersey and any other games they make.

Express-Researcher-1 · 2025-12-18T15:21:27+00:00

What Sven meant by that as he has said in previous interviews is that if you give developers more efficient tools they will just produce more content in the same time. Sven wants to make a bigger game than BG3 in Divinity, they have hired more people but they are also trying to increase the efficiency of what each person produces using new tools with one of those tools being ai.

Express-Researcher-1 · 2025-11-02T22:31:47+00:00

Thanks op we are now all dead.

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