Today I learned that the Wolfenden Report sold 15,000 copies in the first three months of publication (i.e late 1957). The Beveridge Report sold +250k copies. Any other 20thC gov reports find large audiences or just these two?

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You know, so often I think politics really comes down to “do you want to vote for clever people or for stupid people”. I was a bit of a centrist when I started university and became progressively more left-wing as I realised people far more clever than me were all on the left.

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The AI Crash when it comes will be 100% a product of society being dominated by a capitalist class that is funnelling literally every spare resource available to humanity into something barely anyone wants. But 18 months later the consensus will be to take it out on the poor or the immigrants

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Nice day for it

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Back in the day I used to walk into a seminar room and the students would all be talking. Now they are on their phones, some with headphones on too

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