Years back I heard that 10 is a bad number for this kind of thing.
The reasoning goes that because it's a round number people will assume that you chose it to be round and that at least some of your entries are filler to get up that number.
Whereas if you have 11 reasons or 7 or whatever, people will think that number is the actual number you needed to make all your points.
UK-based researchers interested in this subject, and potentially international collaborators, could apply to the recently-announced UKRI funding opportunity:
https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/ageing-research-development-awards/
The UK effectively charges a very large tax for access to its postcode address file, making it out of reach for many uses and also being effectively a large tax on business, especially small business, that requires the information. This seems like quite an insane place to collect this much government revenue.
The article you link to points out that the PAF is controlled by Royal Mail. I think that Royal Mail gets the revenue from this. Royal Mail isn't government revenue. It was privatised several years ago.
It seems to get pretty hot, so you probably wouldn't want it on anything that might scorch or burn. Silver lining: you'll save money on your heating bill. Though I'm not looking forward to seeing my electricity bill next month.
If it's running at 500W, that's half a kWh per hour. If electricity is a little under 40p per kWh, then the running cost should be a bit under 20p per hour. If you use it for 10 hours per day, every day, then your electricity bill might rise by about £60 per month.
The one big annoyance is that there's no switch on the floodlight, so you've got to turn it on and off from the mains.
Since you're already fitting a plug, and since that sounds like it might be closer than the mains due to the short wire, you could fit a plug with a switch on it. like these:
I don't think you need to view namedropping as an appeal to authority. The natural way to do it in a scholarly document, including a poster, would be to cite a source. That's giving the reader valuable information - a way to check out the authority behind it.
Of course, if the reader is familiar with the author cited and knows that their work is invariably strong, they might choose to take it on authority as a shortcut, but they have the info at hand to check into it if they wish.
Aha. For each side of the pole, you can write the binary representation of 4 bits vertically, and where there's a 1 you have a line joining it. The middle two bits both go to the middle of the pole, so they have to curve off upward or downward to indicate which they are.
So 2 is 0010, and you have no lines in the top half and one line representing the bottom of the middle, so it curves downward.
Whereas 4 is 0100, so it has the upward-curving middle-connecting line, and none in the bottom half.
The top half of a 2 might kinda look like the curve shape, and the bottom stroke of a 2 looks like a horizontal bar. So if there were partial characters hanging from the central pole, they might look a bit like those...
But... If it's that, the curve probably only works on the bottom right anyway. So if you're willing to mirror it for the bottom left, why not mirror to the top too?
And... That doesn't really explain the 1 parts anyway. They're just using "whichever part of a 2 isn't being used for 2".
So I guess this isn't a complete explanation.
You mention here that "of course" you agree that AI is the dominant risk, and that you rate p(doom) somewhere in the 5-10% range.
But that wasn't at all clear to me from reading the opening to the article.
As written, that opener suggests to me that you think the overall model of doom being likely is substantially incorrect (not just the details I've elided of it being the default).
I feel it would be very helpful to the reader to ground the article from the outset with the note you've made here somewhere near the start. I.e., that your argument is with the specific doom case from EY, that you retain a significant p(doom), but that it's based on different reasoning.