The other issue is that the machinery is not 1 person but 10s or 100s of 1000s of people who are actually doing the work you want to do. There is a difference between "£10M will sort out that hospital easily" and going through the machine ends up making that cost more like £100M not just "corruption" although there will be some but also massive inefficiency, lack of agency for people to make things happen without having 100 meetings to agree it and then having the government change their mind and throw the whole thing in the trash.

Devolving decisions to local government helps to a point but some things have to be managed centrally, which is where the bureaucracy is at its worst.

What some people in the UK do is go to local air conditioned public buildings like libraries (which they are welcome to do) and occasionally a large air conditioned store or shopping centre.

* Lack of focus and discipline: Good founder, huckster, good at sales but won't scale with the business when it needs to start focussing.

* Fearful and nervous: Might start a business but doesn't want to make the wrong decision and so stops the business from growing due to decisions not being made when they need making.

* Not a founder but got the role somewhere once, lacks genuine transferable skills. Might work OK in another business but more than likely just riding the existing success/failure of the new business and leaves after 1-2 years to "face a new challenge".

* The rarest of all. Has all the relevant skills, creative, outgoing, mission focused and makes hard decisions efficiently. Will do well in whatever business they are in but might not be very popular!

The real money is going to go towards, "make this all more reliable".

Really, everyone should know by now it is not as simple as that. We already have lots of laws that are not enforced (fully or at all) because there is a cost to enforcing the law - time and money. Some random person uploads an AI image to Facebook and you really expect the police to expend a few thousand $ prosecuting them for what? To Server as a warning?

Some people will be untraceable. Some will claim innocence or mitigation or some disability that excuses them. Even those that might be prosecuted will be fined and won't pay which costs even more to follow up.

We should know that the legal system does not create an obedient society.

Sadly, there is no way to counter a conspiracy theorist because if you question or counter then you are just part of the conspiracy too. Governments know that they need to do stuff but they also know that ignorant voters who read trash tabloid newspapers will vote them out next time because they might have to pay a little more for their electricity or cars.

I am glad that I live far away from the effects but it is sad to think of people losing all kinds of things for the lack of respect of Mother Earth!

As for Newspapers, how long would you really spend reading them on any given day?

Not one single person in that system thinks the very obvious "A name without any other data is worthless, let's just delete it from the list".

If people lack agency then you already have an ineffective system but my guess would be that no-one person has the authority to take executive action and every change however daft takes 30 people in a meeting discussing it for an hour so it just gets left as it is.

Now? In the queue behind 23 other bespoke orders while they try and service the drive-thru as quickly as possible and nothing stopping them taking the burger that was made for me and adding it to another order.

I was so angry once, I walked out after paying and I just didn't wait for my breakfast muffin because the whole thing like the parent says is that they used to care about efficiency as well as customer experience and now that goes out the window.

I am studying for a Masters degree in Computer Science with AI and the lecture notes are like Wikipedia sometimes. Incomplete, perhaps assume pre-knowledge that lots of Masters students won't have. All of these I have taken to ChatGPT and got great explanations, diagrams, graphs etc.

On what planet do people start paying for things without keeping an eye on the costs and no-one notices until you have spent a crazy amount? I don't understand. You are either paying a fixed amount which you are happy about in-advance or you are PAYG in which case you would ballpark how much it costs.

Otherwise it reads a bit like a fake problem, because it didn't really happen, you just foresaw it (as you should) and added a few guide rails.

* Job attrition because "AI". * Blamed for high energy prices * A totem for high wealth individuals * A lot of building for not that many jobs * In small countries like the UK, some are a massive blot on the landscape compared to their surroundings

Oh, but at the same time, we want everything to be cheaper. But not with AI. Or Data Centres.