i think claude opus 4.8 is primarily about cost optimisation for anthropic at the cost of precision. its replies are really lazy. it's assumptious, doesn't read material you ask it to, generalises, and keeps switching on its worst traits even when repeatedly asked to stop.

4.7 was a step backwards from 4.6, but 4.8 makes it worse.

asking it to say "is this logical deduction valid, given that" yields it immediately raising red flags about irrelevancies because it's politically incorrect.

oh, do you now?

its a little hard to unsee it once it clicks. this was indeed planned very well.

and it clearly ran in tandem with other initiatives

oh there he is again

what am i doing. there it is.

little surprised that's the best link to the oxford school

https://www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/page/oxsfg-events

oh and there's our old friend, Jem Bendell

https://research.cumbria.ac.uk/files/14940571/Bendell_occasionalpaper8_revised.pdf

one of my favourite episodes

there he is again!

haha 'civil society groups' indeed.... funded by whom? the ECB and its foundation friends?

i've definitely got this. there's no fucking way i'm wrong.

... and there's INSPIRE...

https://new-economicsf.files.svdcdn.com/production/files/Collateral-Framework.pdf

... so that's Nicholas Stern... and ClimateWorks... and Nick Robins...

https://escapekey.substack.com/p/stranded-assets?utm_source=publication-search

so the us-based rockefeller associates worked on impact investing, and uk-based rothschild on stranded assets... they keep switching; rothschild is associated with blended finance which is impact investing without a purpose, for instance, while Cameron launched the Big Society iirc...

it's clever, never questioned any of that. it's very clever. too clever.

the tories have fundamentally been aligned with labour since certainly Cameron's government beginning in 2010. setting aside the rhetoric, they've pursued policies to the same end objective.

i think we're pretty much at end station. remarkable how well planned this was.

lol

https://new-economicsf.files.svdcdn.com/production/files/3a512ad0ef4458b28b_ntm6bwk42.pdf

obviously in here as well

https://neweconomics.org/2020/03/covid-19-the-government-must-go-further

i leave this as an exercise for the reader, but this is astonishing.

what's crucial in this document?

hint: this was published BEFORE 'tragedy of the horizon'. the mechanism was suggested before the policy objective.

https://new-economicsf.files.svdcdn.com/production/files/e79789e1e31f261e95_ypm6b49z7.pdf

'spose that is an ancestor...

https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/16569/1/GreenQuEasing.pdf