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Hello. I am relieved you are back. Hopefully, you can widen your immediate group so your views can be distributed to more people more quickly. The only solution seems to be a new political party together with proportional representation. Even then, initially it will only appeal to one third of the population; when established it can be promoted in a way that will take it over 50%. Good luck. Keep listening and thinking a lot!

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In the British system 20% of the poll gives you 0 MP’s and 35% of the poll gives you a governing majority.

There is a chasm of death that you need to cross, I have an unpublished article explaining this in a lot of detail and how parties could optimise the polling mechanics of the British for maximum electoral pragmatism.

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Who are you please? Found you via your comments on DCs substack. Some context regarding your personal background would be interesting

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That’s fair, I can elaborate on that in a future article, but please don’t expect any glamour!

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OK and we're off to the races. 2016 remember Prince and George Michael too pls-many puddles of tears all over.

Big Hairy Goal-education, education, education. The sight of all these kids in sad black uniforms wandering aimlessly around our parts really makes me -well-sad. Oh and linked to that the disassembling of techco's splitting content and software (a bit like the big 4 had to do) so soc media is taken away from them once and for all. Age restrictions, time limits, the whole nine yards. I don't want any grandchild of mine on what we call social media-ever.

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My current opinions...

What has changed this year, is that in the near future it’s perfectly possible to create a practically completely bespoke internet for each individual person.

LLM’s are content on demand where you are. There is no longer any need to search a geographically disparate web for content.

It seems inevitable to me that LLM’s will evolve and compete to become super educators, the market is enormous. Lots of parents would happily home school their kids if it meant a single iPad could generate educational material on demand to feed any productive curiosity.

I think social media is dead on its feet.

For example you can imagine it’s quite possible to train an LLM to become the most knowledgeable and persuasive and engaging geography teacher ever. It could recall all geography conversations with a certain child and have a real time understanding of the frontiers of their geography knowledge, probing and pushing that frontier with every engagement.

Bear in mind we will soon have video on demand too. It will quickly transcend text to become two way video.

Maybe some kids will shun this stuff, but they will have to compete with kids who embrace it. The labour market can become much more specialised and much more deeply educated in a more targeted way.

The macro curriculum could also steer education output towards market / strategic needs of a nation.

I doubt this emerges in the public sector, it will start in private sector and it will bifurcate human capital within a couple of decades.

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I think social media is dead on its feet.-I hope so.

I have no doubt LLM is the way. Some days I am quite happy to chat to Chat for hours...the problem is WHICH private sector schools would take the leap. back in the day we were all v excited by the arrival of newton prep in Battersea as a 'different' school. I had a large nursery then (while working in the City) and all the mummies wanted theirs to go to hot new newton prep...it is now just private school nothing special. Then there's Elon's AdAstra that has become Synthesis at the other end-VERY engaging collab milieu but most parents won't understand it. So the problem is twofold-a credible school sets up with a NEW offering, it must first educate the parents as to why the networks kiddo will build at this school will be better than Numpty Prep which funnels to Eton and Charterhouse. Sooo...the homeschooling thing. Examined this with homeschooling parents a while back . You could start an innovative tutor supported wandering school that goes around supporting 10/12 kids at a time with some parental involvement but led by an excellent tutor and backed up w LLM. Homeschooled kids love homeschooling where it genuinely directed.Just thinking aloud. All v exciting.

Have to look at video on demand new to me. You have to activate your paid subscriber link by the way to get paid :)

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