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Manifesto Workshop 2

What statements do you agree with?

13 people have given 822 responses

It should be easier to build power stations of all types

1000

AI is the defining technology of the next 10 years

890

Building things is a way to figure them out

890

Be Proudly Ambitious

890

simplify high-skilled immigration

890

impact through agency, high conviction and industriousness.

890

We believe in Space colonisation

890

Maximise knowledge creation

890

Incubate AI R&D, build data centres.

890

Expand nuclear energy (including fusion)

890

Policies to encourage market variance and entrepreneurship, regulatory sandboxing of new technologies (e.g., driverless transport)

890

We should ambitiously advance human flourishing.

890

Reduce legal risk around mistakes when starting startups

860

Simplify Tax System

800

Embrace uncertainty and risk-tolerance

800

Foster open source AI

800

It should be a goal to make the UK energy independent, by fracking and making it easier to build nuclear, solar and wind power

780

make it easier for people and businesses to move between cities

780

Build More Infrastructure

780

Build More Cities

780

More Regulation Sandboxes

780

Technology is the extension of human creative intelligent output

780

We are builders and are trying to build the future

7811

We are optimistic about the future

780

Embrace the power of competition and markets

7811

Overhaul planning and experimental regulations to facilitate capital development and accelerate aerospace, defense, and other high-tech industries, reducing barriers to testing and innovation.

780

Foster growth in the biotech sector, specifically longevity, gene therapy research and BCI R&D, through subsidies, regulatory support.

780

Deregulate and support the expansion of nuclear energy to secure an abundant, independent energy supply, including investment in research for next-generation nuclear technologies and fusion energy.

780

Enhance the UK's space industry infrastructure; double down on the Shetland spaceport and accommodation for new launch technologies.

7811

Secure the UK’s role in space exploration and commercialization.

780

We should care about achieving end results (more flourishing) more than ideology.

7811

We should enthusiastically deploy technology while recognising its realistic risks.

780

The state should take high-risk, high-reward bets on emerging technologies via R&D/Investment agencies modelled after DARPA

780

Modelling after the BBC's commercial arm, empower other British public services to commercialise their offering abroad to reduce the tax burden here

780

Give special planning dispensation + funding to cities with global impact to allow them to build, expand and innovate i.e. Oxford, Cambridge etc

780

The state should take high-risk, high-reward bets on emerging R&D/Investment agencies modelled after DARPA

750

It would be good to experiment with charter cities in the UK - city sized regulatory sandboxies

7114

Allow people to improve their houses to the next level of density so that density can gradually increase

7114

There are a set of orbits for which the UK would be a viable space launch location

7114

The UK should offer tax breaks for health insurance, as australia does

6722

If a drug has been tested in the US, EU, Korea or Japan it should be legal to take inthe UK

6711

It is bad that factory farms cause so much suffering

6711

MPs should be paid more

6722

All spending should be benchmarked against cash. If it's better to give people cash we should do so

6711

Incentivise Population Growth

6722

Majority of AI safety people aren’t actually that different from us in terms of vibe

6722

Limit top-down control

670

Maximise AI engineering to derive capabilities and safety.

670

Reform housing and urban development regulations to expand housing supply and capital development.

670

Exploit our wind/wave energy potential to become the Saudi Arabia of green energy for Europe

6711

Create high speed rail links and other integrated infrastructure between Oxford, Cambridge and London.

670

Lower top rate of tax, but simplify and focus on enforcement to get the same tax rate overall

6313

With investment the UK could be a viable launch location even despite the unideal latitude

6325

Reduce Innovation-Hindering Regulations

600

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

6010

We should build 5 new London tube lines before 2035

570

The UK should invest (via tax breaks etc) in getting scaling up companies in the UK

5714

Other city mayors and metropolitan mayors to be given the same level of control as the London mayor (Khan)

5714

Extinction risk from AI is between 1 and 10 %

5611

The UK should allow people to push their property to the next level of density on their street

560

We should have 10% the number of words in law that we currently have

5622

laws against social nuisance should be enforced more visibly and aggressively

5633

provide student-loans only for valuable degrees

5622

improve social-security (NHS, etc.)

5611

Technology is key to human fulfilment

5633

The best defence is a good offence.

5622

We believe the UK can be a powerhouse of science, technology, and engineering like we were 200 years ago

5611

Push human biology

560

Exploit our natural resources to create a fund able to invest in domestic infrastructure (including housing) and make geopolitically strategic investments abroad.

5611

An annual national celebration of British culture where cities put on showcase events like Edinburgh's Fringe

5622

The best offence is a good defense

5622

Extinction risk from AI is between 10 and 100%

5633

Supermarket loyalty schemes should not coerce people into handing over their data in return for more affordable food.

5010

Everyone should have a right to visit our friends, families and communities easily and quickly via public transport, not just in London.

5020

The UK education system is good

500

London should build a new tube line a year from 2027 onwards

4411

MPs should be given 500k each to run their offices

4422

We shouldn't have tariffs on trade with our allies

4422

We should sign the no-nuclear-first-strike policy

4422

0.7% of GNP should go to aid again

4433

incentivise global scale-up businesses to headquarter & bank in the UK (tax breaks / regulation / GTM support / trade-deals)

440

reduce punishments for dumb startup mistakes

4411

Healthcare should be nationally subsidised (via insurance), and privately fulfilled

4433

Screws are 4cm long, head is 8.5mm in diameter, threads 3mm, core 2mm

440

Take power out of Westminster and create London-style power structures for other cities.

4411

mandate the creation of startup incubators in every university

4422

Reform NHS to streamline and integrate it, improve IT. Open it up to external private competition e.g., Palantir

4010

The UK have a fixed number of 5 year work visas each year and should sell them via auction

3322

Lower top rate of tax but ensure wealthy pay it

3333

We are mostly aligned with Cummings view of British politics

330

Tax cuts to stimulate economic growth, attract FDI, and enable corporations to increase wages

3322

Have a charter city in the North, with much more open immigration

3322

The UK is a cost effective place to launch satellites from

3010