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Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.

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  China declined U.S. nuclear-talk proposals in 2023 and broke off meaningful arms control talks.

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  During the 2023 U.S.-China nuclear talks, America proposed missile-launch notifications, a nuclear crisis hotline, and processes to limit the use of outer space for military conflict. China declined all of those. Blame the U.S. if you wish (do we always keep our word?), but that is what happened. China also broke off meaningful arms control talks.

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Criminal defence lawyer in New York; writes Simple Justice, mostly about how criminal law works in practice rather than in theory.

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  A defendant's only job at trial is to prevent a unanimous conviction, never to win a unanimous acquittal.

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  The defendant has no duty to reach a unanimous verdict of acquittal, but only to prevent a unanimous verdict of conviction.

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Investigative journalist on policing, forensics and criminal justice; wrote Rise of the Warrior Cop and writes The Watch.

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  Forensic experts exposed as frauds, and the prosecutors who keep using them, face no consequences.

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  And while some courts have ruled that Hayne and West aren’t credible experts, the two men never faced any real accountability.

  The framing of Chris Duncanradleybalko.substack.com

Author of Recoding America; founded Code for America and was US deputy chief technology officer from 2013 to 2014. Writes Eating Policy on why governments cannot do what they decide to do.

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  Televised hearings built for viral clips are the wrong venue for honest accountability conversations.

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  the time to make that point is not during a televised hearing when everyone is trying for a viral clip.

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Climate journalist; founded HEATED in 2019 after reporting on climate at The New Republic and ThinkProgress.

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  Public discourse shapes what form governance and regulatory accountability ultimately take.

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  Governance inherits the shape of the discourse that informs it,

  AI’s climate problem is worse than we thoughtheated.world

Chief Product and Technology Officer at Netflix, previously VP of Science at Lyft and an economist at Analysis Group.

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  Netflix’s cultural rules were never ends in themselves: agency, accountability and pushing decisions deep into the organisation are the mechanism by which you get excellence.

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  It was instead a very strongly held opinion that that you get to excellence by giving people a lot of agency and accountability. By pushing decisions as deep in the organization as possible, hiring great people who can be trusted to have good judgment and make good decisions.

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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

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  AI will let citizens make their governments legible and accountable, reversing the historical direction in which only states could read society.

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  Something I've been thinking about - I am bullish on people (empowered by AI) increasing the visibility, legibility and accountability of their governments.

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Co-founder of Ethereum. Publishes long essays on mechanism design, governance and what cryptography is for, and returns to earlier positions to say which parts they no longer hold.

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  The verdict: pi plus a basic searxng skill outperformed Local Deep Research. Also, pi is just much more configurable: I can easily just tell it to use not just internet searches, but also my own world_knowledge directory.

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Researcher on developer productivity; co-wrote Accelerate and the DORA research, and created the SPACE framework.

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  The front end of software work has already collapsed into rapid prototyping, and part of the outer loop will collapse next.

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  right now, that whole front end has been like kind of smooshed because many times we can just like prototype really really rapidly and kind of solidify some of what we're thinking in terms of like ideas and coding. So I fully expect that part of the outer loop is just going to be collapsed as well, right?

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American novelist and critic, author of Real Life, The Late Americans and Minor Black Figures; writes the newsletter sweater weather on literature and culture.

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  Having an external accountability partner makes people follow through on writing they would otherwise skip.

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  Accountability threads work! It brings me no pleasure to say this.

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Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.

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  Greater autonomy over one's work comes with greater accountability for its outcomes.

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  With great freedom comes great responsibility. You have the autonomy to choose what to work on, but there's the expectation of accountability and impact.

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Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.

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  Earning more is an outer game you do not control; wanting less is an inner game you do.

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  Making money depends on other people, so it's harder. It's not entirely under your control. It's an outer game.

  Wealth = Have ÷ Wantsive.rs

Writer on happiness, habits and human nature. Author of The Happiness Project, Better Than Before and The Four Tendencies, and host of the Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast.

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  Outer Order, Inner Calm

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  With clarity and humor, Gretchen Rubin illuminates one of her key realizations about happiness: For most of us, outer order contributes to inner calm.

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Writer and researcher on how people organise online; wrote Working in Public, on the maintenance of open-source software, and Antimemetics.

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  A software foundation is little more than a tax status, and gets less public accountability than a company because everyone assumes its motives are good.

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  There is nothing about a foundation that is inherently good, neutral, or charitable, simply because they have a 501(c) status.

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