Sloan Eddleston @eddlest

@anothercohen Which 7 did you try?

Precisely as I predicted, the recent cyber EO, which admin officials insisted was not a licensing regime, ends up in practice being a licensing regime. Forget “voluntary,” forget “permissionless.” AI is licensed now, but the requirements change constantly and are always a secret, even to the administration itself, which will discover the rules spontaneously in real time as it reacts to events. This means also that the rules are in practice stricter and more roughly enforced for organizations the administration does not like. Can you blame Anthropic for making itself so disliked? In a sense, sure. The problem is that this childish “he said, she said” is all we have to go on in our analysis of the situation. And because there is no transparency (it is all calls and texts between “White House officials” and “Anthropic executives”), in practice it comes down to who you trust more. This is why we create laws! To abstract away from personal power struggles and grudges, to submit to the steady application of rules so that complex human activity can unfold with predictability. The rule of law has been being eroded in the U.S. for my entire life, but it is especially acute in AI because of both the lack of much preexisting law to serve as bulwark, and because of this admin’s insistence that it is Not Regulating AI. This has become an excuse for vagueness and evasiveness in rule-drafting (see the cyber EO), and this in turn makes the lawlessness worse. The government wants to apply its force to frontier AI, that much is clear. It wants to make the industry submit. And in service of that goal, it has discovered that “not regulating AI” is in fact a great excuse for refusing to support laws that could constrain the admin’s exercise of power. In other words, “not regulating AI” is a *justification* for the tyrannical control of AI by the state. This should alarm you regardless of what party you are in. What you are seeing now will be used against you one day soon, if not by this admin then by its successors. This is the antithesis of the rule of law. The administration cannot and will not fix this problem alone. We need Congress to step in and impose rules on this mess.

Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus

a month ago

New update on Fable 5: and it's less about jailbreaks than anyone initially thought. Via Axios The Axios story that just dropped today reframes the whole thing: Anthropic hired a cybersecurity expert to review Amazon's findings and push back on the government's narrative. The

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This has quietly been a miracle month in medicine. In the last 5 weeks we’ve got news on: - retatrutide, the triple agonist GLP-1 from Lilly, basically melting fat and body-wide inflammation at record levels - RevMed’s new pancreatic cancer drug showing unprecedented abilities to extend life - small trial of a one-and-done PCSK9 gene editing therapy for slashing LDL cholesterol - Mayo’s AI-assisted radiology showing vastly improved cancer detection - this new therapy for metastatic solid tumors This stuff is at varying levels of evidence. Retatrutide is ~100% on its way, other stuff needs more clinical trial data. But put it together and we’re maybe on the verge of majorly reducing the mortality of heart disease and cancer, the two leading causes of death in America.

Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil

2 months ago

This is actually insane. 97% of people taking the standard of care for metastatic solid tumor got worse by seven years. But with lorlatinib, that number was only 45% in the same time! This is an ENORMOUS jump in the quality of cancer care.

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@pitdesi @paulnnaluo @STNC Thank you!

@pitdesi @paulnnaluo @STNC Got a referral code?

Even if you take the conservative defense of each ICE killing, you’re left with “We haphazardly scaled up a poorly trained police force to storm into neighborhoods that voted against the president, where we antagonize the local population until someone resists arrest, and then we kill them,” which is morally horrendous on top of being an absurd way to do immigration policy.

Matt Mahan is the future of California

Mayor Matt Mahan @MattMahanSJ

6 months ago

Trust in government increases faster when we serve people better. In San Jose, we’re using technology – to fill potholes faster, make every community safer, and bring everyone indoors. I enjoyed sitting down with Technovation and @peterahigh to discuss how strategic use of tech

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Terrific from @tylercowen: "If by any chance you are wondering how to make yourself smarter, learn how to appreciate almost everybody, and keep on cultivating that skill."

@DrCamiloOrtiz @FreeRangeKids @JonHaidt Here is what I’m referring to: x.com/avidcommentato…

Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺 @AvidCommentator

6 months ago

This is quite a striking chart from the Economist. Millennial fathers spent only marginally less time caring for their children than Baby Boomer mothers of the same age.

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@DrCamiloOrtiz @FreeRangeKids @JonHaidt This seems to line up well with the data that parents spend a LOT more time with their kids these days than they used to. I say that because my hypothesis is that parents, when actively watching their kids, prevent risky play.

@moseskagan I’m always cautious about “kids these days” justifications. 4 of 5 no shows for a virtual interview suggests something is way off. Either the comp is too low, you’re not pitching it the way it needs to be pitched, or you’re fishing in the wrong ponds.

Hard to say what's more striking, the amateurishness or the brutality.

Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1

9 months ago

ICE agents just snatched a Journalist & were Speeding away when they hit a woman’s vehicle that was going to work & doing nothing wrong! They almost left the scene after slamming into her,but then snatched her out of her car at gunpoint and took her with them! 🤬

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Schiff: I think it's valuable that the American people get a sense of what you have refused to answer today. So these are just some of the questions you refuse to answer, but or have answered with personal attacks on members of this committee. You were asked whether you consulted with career ethics lawyers, as you promised you would do during your nomination hearing. When you approved the president receiving a $400 million gift from the qataris, you refused to answer that question. You were asked who or what role you may have played, or who played the role in asking the trump's name be flagged in any of the Epstein documents gathered by the FBI? You refuse to answer that question. You were asked whether Homan kept the $50,000 bribe money. You refuse to answer that question. You were asked whether Homan paid taxes on the $50,000 bribe money. You refused to answer that question. You were asked, did career prosecutors find insufficient evidence to charge James Comey. You refused to answer that question. You were asked, how are military strikes on these boats in the caribbean legal. And you refuse to even answer that question. You are asked, excuse me, excuse me? You are asked, did you discuss indicting James Comey with the president. You refused to answer that question. You were asked, did you approve the firing of antitrust lawyers who disagreed with the Hewlett Packard merger. You refused to answer that question. You were asked whether you support a restoration fund for violent insurrections, insurrections to attack the capitol on January 6th. Refuse to answer that question. You were asked whether you were firing career professionals, career prosecutors just because they worked on January 6th. Question January 6th investigations. You refuse to answer that question. You were asked by my colleague whether you believe government officials, like immigration officials, have to abide by court orders. You wouldn't answer that question

@NateSilver538 Other side of the same coin: it very rarely asks questions. I did a fantasy football draft yesterdsy and had chatgpt help. To maximize my win probability, it should have constantly asked the composition of other teams, but instead gave me super confident answers without knowing

Sorry, I’m just gonna openly despair on Twitter for a minute. I’m so tremendously black pilled after seeing that clip of Tim Walz suggesting China and not America has the moral authority to negotiate with Iran. He also went on to disparage Israel defending itself from Hamas. This isn’t some dipshit Twitter leftist. This man was our vice presidential pick. I remember the DNC convention where we talked a tough game on national security, but nine months later you hear what he really thinks and it’s the same horseshit you would expect at Columbia. This man was nearly our Vice President. Of our party. Have Democrats just decided America should not play a role in leading the world anymore?

It's not being appreciated just how radical Zohran's expressed views were just a short time ago, and how little he's addressed them. He had a full-on commitment to ending capitalism, defunding police, ending exam schools, "decarceration," and embracing racial conflict. 🧵

New essay: Something strange—and possibly worrying—is happening to the job market for college grads: unemployment for recent grads is rising, while law school applications are surging. Maybe it's a sign of Trumpy chaos. Maybe it's a sign of something more structural. So, here's question I'm mildly obsessed with: What economic indicator should we watch closely to know if AI is starting to really change the whole macroeconomy? "When you think from first principles about what generative AI can do, and what jobs it can replace, it’s the kind of things that young college grads have done” in white-collar firms, @ProfDavidDeming told me. “They read and synthesize information and data. They produce reports and presentations.” I agree. I'm not catastrophic about the risk of total disemployment by machines. But I do think Gen-AI is amazing at the precise skillset of paralegals and young i-bankers, consultants, researchers, and coders. So I've been wondering when we'll see recent grad unemployment peel away from the rest of the economy. Well, that's precisely what's happening now. The unemployment rate for recent grads is worse now relative to the overall economy than any time in the last four decades, at least. Is this slam-dunk evidence of AI disruption? As I say in the piece: nope. But it's ... something to watch.

There's a weird complacency among Republicans and fatalism among Democrats about Trump's ability to hold his "base." Trump spent his first term implementing conventional economic policies that led to continued growth and prosperity, and he still managed to be not that popular. Now he's about to intentionally tank the economy. Why do we think his approval rating can't fall into the low 30s? joshbarro.com/p/liberation-t…

Touring a new modular apartment building in Denver. 77 units, 6 stories. The building went up in 7 days flat.

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@snowmaker @bscholl @flyjsx Can’t Apple or other apps with geolocation do this fairly easily?