John Quiggin

1 month ago | theconversation.com | John Quiggin

Nationals’ leader David Littleproud has singled out nuclear energy as a key reason for his party’s spectacular split from the Liberals, as both parties seek to rebuild following the Coalition’s devastating election loss.

1 month ago | tolerance.ca | John Quiggin

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1 month ago | theguardian.com | John Quiggin

A series of ABC 7.30 reports tells a familiar story of failure in human services. Inadequate staffing, dangerous incidents brushed under the carpet, ineffective regulation and, at the back of it all, for-profit businesses, either ASX-listed or financed by private equity. This time it’s childcare but the same problems have emerged in vocational education, aged care, prisons, hospitals and many other services. Every time the answer we get is the same.

1 month ago | theconversation.com | Nicole Hasham |Daniel J Cass |John Quiggin |Magnus Söderberg |Samantha Hepburn |Tony Wood

Debate over high energy bills and the broader cost-of-living crisis have been central to the federal election campaigns of the major parties. Both Labor and the Coalition say their energy policies are the best way to bring household power costs down – but which side is right? The Coalition has pledged to build seven nuclear reactors at the sites of former coal plants, should it win government.

1 month ago | johnquiggin.com | John Quiggin

Back in 2022, after my first encounter with ChatGPT, I suggested that it was likely to wipe out large categories of “bullshit jobs”, but unlikely to create mass unemployment. In retrospect, that was probably an overestimate of the likely impact. But three years later, it seems as if an update might be appropriate. Source: WikipediaIn the last three years, I have found a few uses for LLM technology.