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Subject: Re: energy in UK
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On Sun, 13 Apr 2025 07:46:22 +0100, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:

>Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
>
>> On 13/04/2025 4:16 am, john larkin wrote:
>> > 
>> > https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/10/uk_ai_energy_council_meets/
>> 
>> The UK still suffers from an old decision to base it's civil service on
>> a misunderstood version of the Chinese civil service.
>> 
>> Chinese orthography is horrible and it took a lot of effort for anybody
>> to get literate and stay literate. Entry to the Chinese civil service
>> depended on proving that you could read and write, and any other 
>> expertise was secondary.
>> 
>> The UK imagined that the candidates were being tested for pure 
>> intellectual power. Being able to read and write English wasn't 
>> difficult enough to test this, so they tested for competence in Latin
>> and Greek.
>> 
>> Science was despised - the civil service formula was scientist on tap,
>> not on top. When it comes to technical matters like generating and 
>> distributing electric power cheaply, the English are still behind the
>> game, because the crucial choices are still made by some classically 
>> educated mandarin who doesn't understand the problems in any detail.
>
>Excellent summary.

Well done, Bill; you got something right for a change!