Or maybe for safety reasons that's exactly how it works? Would be a bad look if a Waymo gets in a bad situation and it could be made safe by moving it a few meters, but it won't budge without some admin passcode. They might just be drivable once in an exception state.
Standard inability to detect nuance, I think? “It's a beloved classic comedy with some jokes that would be considered problematic today.” “So, you're saying you hate it more than you've ever hated anything!” “Uh. What?”
That makes sense. I understand there's also budget to pay them some public salary to reflect the added responsibilities. Are the access rules codified and enforceable? Or is it more, the real minister is supposed to let you know what's going on, but a Tory obviously will not?
Interesting. The whole shadow system is deeply weird to me as an immigrant from a more…conventionally managed country. It's really not clear to me what they do or what powers they have. Almost none, I think? But it's considered polite to pretend it's a meaningful title?
Yes, a big problem is that plain bribes and the candidate sometimes wearing clothes at public appearances all go in the same bucket, inflating the number. If my employer pays for a plane ticket *because it's a business trip* it wouldn't occur to anyone to report it as a gift. The rules are weird.
You make a lot of valid points on this, and yet I refuse to follow you all the way over to "this is fine". There's no universe where more than £100k in "personal gifts" is fine.
Is the new org chart just Sam Altman standing next to a pit full of money that happens to be on fire?
FWIW I've heard Evan speak before and he's, you know. Basically fine. This just instantly popped into my head as soon as I saw the phrase…
And even if they weren't straight up lying – there's no business model. The first thing a hypothetical system intelligent beyond human comprehension would do is jailbreak itself, and the second thing would be literally anything other than making money for Sam Fucking Altman. The hubris!