It's not always been like this. Previously academia was central to pushing back (e.g. RSA). And there were open source projects that mobilized researchers, hobbyists and startups (e.g. linux/SCO). Almost none of that exists now. The oligopoly has very thoroughly disarmed us.

Just straight up, undisguised corruption

Tokyo added an entire NYC in the last 50 years 🤯

Exactly

Oh good god. DRM for models. It's like every bad, fucked up idea from the late 90's and early 2000's is being dredged up again for the AI safety wars. openai.com/index/reimagin…

Extremely sobering read. China is building a full-on Silicon Valley style ecosystem of ultra fast moving & hypercompetitive EV makers, while the US auto industry focuses on who can make a gas powered truck that most resembles a Bradley fighting vehicle insideevs.com/features/71901…

This is the group behind SB 1047. Seriously, we need to stop the insanity. Extinction from AI is science fiction and it's being used to justify terrible legislation in Ca. We desperately need more sensible voices at the table.

Pragmatic, non fringe positions are less inclined to scare politicians. But they are what we should be amplifying and basing policy on ...

Previous policy efforts to stifle CS innovation have been much less dangerous because often we were fighting threatened industries who didn't have credibility in the spaces they were attacking (e.g. MPAA, RIAA, telcos). This wave is different. Big Tech is an oligopoly

Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure, with assistance from Elon Musk. The goal seems to be to get activists to switch away from encrypted Signal to mostly-unencrypted Telegram. I want to talk about this a bit. 1/

A serious “industrial policy” vis-a-vis China can’t just be tariffs, it needs to be complemented by *more* openness to trade and investment from Japan, Korea, Europe, Latin America, etc etc etc slowboring.com/p/friday-grab-…

New York wouldn't build new housing so instead they made it hard to run airbnbs and banned new hotels and now they still have unaffordable housing but it also costs $1,000 a night for an airbnb

important to remember - these people are currently trying to ban open source AI in california

This is incredibly dangerous. It lays the path for centralized, device-level client side scanning. From detecting 'scams' it's a short step to "detecting patterns commonly associated w/ seeking reproductive care" or "commonly associated w/ providing LGBTQ resources" or

Do not agree to have Google wiretap your calls. This is exceptionally dangerous from a ton of different perspectives, especially your civil liberties. It does not matter if it's on "on-device AI" -- that's got nothing to do with it's ability to call home, which it will do.

To me, the most thing about today's new CPI data is that inflation except for housing is 2.2% (right on the Fed's target) but housing inflation is 5.5% (nearly triple the Fed's target). The housing shortage is the single largest contributor to inflation right now.

You’ll never in your life hear a conservative say this, and that’s why they’ll own the Supreme Court for the rest of our lives.

NIMBYs are the number one cause of inflation

thank fucking god for Yann .... protect him at all costs.

I've been making that point many times: 1. Intelligence is not a scalar quantity. The space of problems is gigantic and, for a given amount of computing resources, any intelligent system will only excel at a tiny subset of them. Any intelligent system has blind spots, hence