Sheepishly Our nearest neighbour in the Lake District, photographed shortly before we left for home. Herdwicks (which are native to the Lakes) are such beautiful animals. Quote of the Day ”It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.” Noël Coward Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Lord Inchquin Link One of my favourite Irish airs. Long Read of the Day When Decentralization Fails This essay by Alex Chalmers is a long, long read, but in a way that’s appropriate because it addresses one of the biggest problems that societies will have to face (assuming we survive climate catastrophe), namely how to govern two kinds of technologies that we have recently invented — AI and (although Chalmers doesn’t address it directly) synthetic biology. In a way the only comparable problem the world has had to address — at least in my lifetime — was the challenge of controlling nuclear weapons, and to date we have just-about managed that (though there have…
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