Why would that trigger a sell off? It was an official US government stamp of approval that “These things are so dangerous and powerful we have to treat them as weapons.” It was bullshit but it played straight into Anthropic’s story.

For a little context, saying our sun is seconds from dying is about as accurate as saying the universe will undergo heat death in billions of years (taking heat death to be no more active stars left in the universe).

Ok if you’re not going to address my points and instead just parrot the text of a motion (which says “proposals to abolish or severely restrict the right to trial by jury in England and Wales by limiting jury trials to cases attracting sentences of less than three years”) which clearly states it is only talking about a subset then I’m done here.

yOU Are mAkING iT SOUNd LiKe the MAJOriTY of cRime IS DeaLT wiTH by anYBodY WheN it veRy mUCh ISn’T.

Very mature argument. I never said anything of the sort, and if anything the bulk of crimes that dont get prosecuted are likely to be summary only anyway (shoplifting and the like).

And you seem to be mistaken on that the only way to be sentenced by a magistrate is if you plead guilty. It isn’t, trials can also go before a magistrate to determine guilt is the offence isnt indictable only (and the magistrate doesnt think it is too complex and needs to be sent to crown court). The defendant may then then request for it to go to crown court instead, which comes with larger sentences possible (magistrates cannot issue terms of more than 12 months), longer time until trial, and a full jury.

What is being proposed is that right to request crown court is being removed for some either way cases. Whether its a good thing or not I dont have the expertise to say, I dont like the erosion of jury trials, but I also dont like that people can have their lives ruined by being stuck in limbo for 5 years waiting for a case to prove their innocence either.

Fundamentally, the point is that there is already a class of crimes which do not get a jury trial, a class which can get a jury trial and a class which must get a jury trial. The proposed changes would move some offences from the second category into the first. I dont see how calling that “the abolishment of jury trials” is an accurate representation.

The majority of crimes are already summary only, that’s just the consequence of there being a lot more petty thefts and speeding than murders.

I’m not a fan of the impression that moving more cases from either way to summary only is being done for reasons of costs, but you are making it sound like this is trial by jury going away for everything when it very much isn’t.

Gold had been underperforming for decades before Brown sold it off though, you cant really fault him for not predicting the future.

Largely to ween ourselves off the dependence of Visa and Mastercard, who are currently skimming off huge amounts of money across the whole world by having a near duopoly on payments. Cryptobros are wrong about a lot of things, and proof of work / proof of stake are both terrible in their own ways, but they aren’t wrong about the problems with the traditional payment systems (even if bitcoin et al introduce more and worse flaws).

A digital currency backed by a central bank gets rid of the wasteful mining (the BoE is allowed to just create currency from nothing, that’s its job) and provides the regulation that is so badly missing from crypto—which is why it is so scam infested.

Oh, that’s sad.
I thought it was kinda cool you trying to bring back a useful old English glyph, its a bit disappointing to learn you’re just tilting at windmills. Figuring out substitutions is one of the things LLMs excel at (a lot of the early jail breaks involved telling them to answer in rot-13 which got around guardrails) so you are doing absolutely nothing even if people were training them on raw internet data (which they aren’t, a large amount of what they do is set up complicated pipelines to filter and ensure quality of data).

Yes, the French have palaces too, but they attract nothing like the numbers as the actual real, functioning palaces and castles actually used by a real, breathing monarchs.

Just FYI, this is incorrect, Versailles gets more visitors a year (15 million) than all British palaces combined (~2 million.)