Surely you can't be serious. This site promotes social media companies all the time which you could easily argue is a much larger cause of problems in the world than gambling.
> For a more philosophical discussion of the National Lottery and its implementation for supporting charitable causes, we recommend David Runciman’s article in the London Review of Books
The UK lottery does a lot of good with its funds and should be mentally separated from other betting/gambling firms in my opinion.
If you want to "gamble" its the best option, if you don't you can always wait for the government to inflate your cash away or spend it on Hilton rooms for sailors.
In no universe is the UK lottery good. All lotteries, the UK lottery included, are effectively sucking money out of the poor. It is profoundly, grotesquely regressive.
If the UK wanted to have an ethical, legitimate mechanism for distributing funds, it should levy a progressive tax that raises the same amount of money as the lottery.
Rishi already taxes the tits off anything he can recall after consuming half a tin of Dulux, please no more taxation.
My point isn't that the lottery is good, just that its the clear moral winner in an industry which includes Bet365, William hill, Coral and a million other pretenders.
If you want a small gamble and are adult enough to have financial independence its your best bet. If you don't or.. don't its totally optional.
> My point isn't that the lottery is good, just that its the clear moral winner in an industry which includes Bet365, William hill, Coral and a million other pretenders.
That's like saying burglary is the clear moral winner over murder. While we all would prefer to be burgled than murdered, I think it's fair to say that burglary is very, very bad.
No. It does "good" with about 25% of it's income. A lot of that "good" is stuff that the government or local councils would just fund directly if the Lottery wasn't paying for them. Much better to just give money to your favourite charity directly.
I disagree. I'd argue that Wikipedia or the Internet Archive are 100% admin, and that's a good thing. I don't want them spending money paying people to write articles or paying people to add stuff to the archive.
There are a lot of charities in between where some more money on admin (e.g. better training, better organisation) can make the front line workers more effective.
The national lottery has an expected return of roughly 50% of your bet. They give about 30% of your bet to charity. So if you gamble £100, you'll end up with £50 in your pocket and £30 donated to charity.
Blackjack on the other hand returns roughly 90% of your bets over time if you play well. So if you donate £40 to charity and take the remaining £60 to a blackjack table you'll end up with more money going to charity and with more money in your pocket.
Of course, "take the remaining 60 pounds" is ill-posed; what does that mean, make 60 bets of 1 pound and stop? Play a single 60 pound bet hand? Because that's the conditions under which you could expect to bring 60 and typically leave with ~54.
If you show up with 60 pounds but bet well over 60 cumulatively you're going to end up with much less.
Do we really want to live and grow our food underground, wear pressurized spacesuits while on the surface, make our air from algae vats, build our villages under big domes?
How many would be able to live like this, how many would die until we would get to this point, and do we really want this?
The problem is the overconsumption and overpollution. That's the only problem.
Nothing good would come from your proposed solution, imho.
Im pretty sure they use a vector storage database against their docs/resources so when you query they can just parse those sources and produce a free hallucination response to it.
No need to make things up if you have the sources anyways.
The linked bug report has four examples of it being wrong. And the bug reporter mentions there's no workflow to submit corrections.
Also hallutination was probably the wrong word to use for LLMs being incorrect since it might imply they could be correct if they would only just focus on the right input data rather than, say, simply not understanding complex technical concents, but I guess that ship has sailed.
>Are psychiatrists supposed to order MDMA/psilocybin directly from the companies that produce the two for research use,
As I understand it, yes.
Legalisation hasn't meant it has gone mainstream.
It is still going to be administered in very selective cases where the current range of medication and therapy has not been effective.
It may only be tens or low hundreds of people who receive these treatments in the first year.
The efficacy of the treatment will be monitored and the hope is that these patients outcomes are positive, which will add to the body of work supporting MDMA/psilocybin as an antidepressant.
Same here. I moved to Australia from London via a 9 year stint in Dublin.
The Irish accepted me, despite the English connection. I made some very good friends but now have lost contact with all but one.
I moved to Brighton in Melbourne 10 years ago and it's a much harder nut to crack. The people here went to prep, primary, secondary school together. Probably university too. I'm an outsider looking in despite volunteering and doing all the rest.
"Blowing up" and moving back to the UK or Ireland is tempting but I would need to start it all again.
I think I'll stay. Maybe I'll crack these nuts one day and have roots.
As someone who grew up in the area (mid 20s atm), there is a well known phrase amongst locals (at least my mates), the "Brighton Bubble." Also yes you're spot on about keeping ties through all levels of education, at least in my case. It was funny living in Sydney for a year, and returning to Melbourne, and when dating one of the first questions you'd be asked is what school you went to. At least, that's my experience, with a couple of people.
But it's not all gloom and doom, the closer you get to the CBD the more opportunities for connection open up. More activities to do in general, more people who are new to the city and are less likely to have ossified social circles, more public funding for that kind of thing. Melbourne has a rich variety of cultures and perspectives to immerse yourself in if you can align your life along the same axes that nurture those cultures and perspectives. Out in the burbs, particularly in the Bubble, less so. Doesn't help that Brighton and its surrounds are skewed to preserve the lifestyles of the people who grew up in the area (this is the politest possible way I can describe it). Speaking from experience there are plenty of people who left the insular communities of their youth around here, because they never felt like they belonged, and never looked back.
Also worth remembering the lockdowns didn't help. I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for in terms of social connection but my point is, please keep plugging away.
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