Jeremy Bentham's Ghost 🌐

Utilitarian. Philosophical Radical. The good of any one individual is of no more importance, from the point of view of the Universe, than the good of any other.

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Bentham is right, of course.

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@OliverKamm @MrRBourne @EruthmaEruthmas The market reaction occurred in response to the tax cuts, and to every subsequent statement that Truss and Kwarteng made. That’s why they get the focus.

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@stephenj_colvin I’m talking about the Bloom study, which also looks at micro-data from businesses. The hit to business investment and our underperformance predates 2021.

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@rec777777 @faisalislam Hilarious. We could’ve negotiated that trade deal with India (which is pretty small) if we’d stayed in the Single Market but left the Customs Union (like Iceland and Norway).

Also, the EU has just concluded its own deal with India.

And Reform and the Conservatives opposed ours.

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@BazG51655 @faisalislam What Brexit dividend? We grew at 3% in 2014, faster than the US, France and Germany.

>2% in 2015 too, faster than the US and France.

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@rec777777 @faisalislam Specious argument. We’d be doing even better in the Single Market.

We grew at 3% in 2014, faster than every other country in the G7.

2.2% in 2015, faster than the US and France.

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@GrumpyTwit99 @anandMenon1 We did consistently outperform our European peers in the Single Market. We underperformed them from 1945-1975.

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@danielmgmoylan @anandMenon1 @OliverKamm No, it’s not. We’ve underperformed France on a per capita basis since the Brexit vote, and done about the same as Germany.

Also, we grew at 3% in 2014, far outpacing both of those countries (and the US), and 2.2% in 2015 (outpacing France and the US).

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@IGMansfield @anandMenon1 @julianHjessop In 2014, we grew at 3%, massively outperforming France and Germany. In 2015, we grew at 2.2%, outperforming both.

That we are also outperforming them today tells us extremely little.

On a per capita basis, we’ve underperformed our European peers since the Brexit vote.

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@tracewoodgrains @Mjreard Such principles have promoted the general happiness for centuries. Your doctrine is more extreme than this. It apparently states that we should place infinitely more weight on the interests of our family members. It's the doctrine of Trumpian and Third World corruption.

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@tracewoodgrains @Mjreard Utilitarianism does not much differ from Common Sense Morality in these domains: promote the happiness of your friends and family (but not at a steep cost to everyone else), be courteous to your neighbours, pay your taxes, engage in your civic duties.

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@clairlemon @Benthamsbulldog No, Claire, you don’t know what the moral answer is here, but you’re acting as if those who have thought about it a lot harder than you have are absolutely, incontrovertibly wrong.

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@LoCtrl @Mbabaney @Benthamsbulldog @clairlemon Williams was a dunce and Nietzsche was an edgelord.

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@Laocailarry @it_is_fareed @horton_official Not a completely unreasonable point, but I very much doubt that Dario will go to jail if a Democrat wins in 2028. We’ll probably see in a few years. Vance is also a chameleon who would be quite happy playing the role of an anti-AI populist if that’s what gets him to the top.

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@prolzate @Laocailarry @it_is_fareed @horton_official Failing a basic reading comprehension test, again.

Not to mention that Yglesias supports the Labour Party and Anthropic has an office in London.

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@Laocailarry @it_is_fareed @horton_official If you could point to where I confirmed or denied any association I’ve had with that company, you wouldn’t have to fabricate a quote. As Trump said, the people of Anthropic are on the “radical left” and are “very smart” people, which means “they don’t like him”.

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@it_is_fareed @Laocailarry @horton_official Very sceptical that we can just throw money at the low human capital problem on the right.

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@it_is_fareed @Laocailarry @horton_official A lot of people need to work on their reading comprehension.

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@prolzate Trump has long since realised that the only individual with outsized power to end the war is Vladimir Putin. And there are ways to end the war “by any means” that would be quite acceptable to those of us of a pro-Ukraine disposition.

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@LemanWalters Calm down, dear, and take the “ascended” out of your bio.