It’s not easy being a Leaver, right now. For a start, the government that actually delivered Brexit – the present Tory government – is facing a one-sided electoral hammering which will make the Anglo-Zanzibar war of 1896 (duration: 38 minutes) look like a tense, nail-biting score draw. In the same vein, polls consistently show high levels of Bregret and Bremorse, with a hefty majority actively wishing to Rejoin.
If you are reading this and you are in the EU, you might find it trickier
In that depressing light – for Brexiteers – let me introduce the ray of sunshine that is ‘Claude’. Claude, in his present incarnation – Claude 3 Opus – is an Artificial Intelligence model developed by the leading AI company Anthropic (which is funded by multiple firms, from Amazon to Qualcomm). Claude 3 Opus is clever. And Claude tells us, in ways you might not expect, that Brexiting was arguably the correct option.
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