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18 September
17 September
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The blank slate fallacy is a false premise that is highly damaging to both humans and AI.Their words
It’s amazing how damaging a single false premise (the blank slate fallacy) can be for humans. Same holds true for AI.
15 September
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Social media is destroying out society. Quitting doesn't help because everyone else is still on it. It's a bad equilibrium. It needs to be solved with government regulations.
10 September
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Serious policy reform requires changing regulations or the tax system, not just behavioural nudges.Their words
I've also argued that while nudges can be quick, easy and effective, serious policy action usually requires a change to regulations or the tax system.
26 August
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Countries and peoples have a right to set an immigration policy, and this notion that we shouldn't have any borders or, or even worse than that, it's all just a blank slate, that all peoples are just the same, and we can take people from one place of the earth and we can place them in another place on the earth and everything's just gonna work out hunky-dory. Empirically not true.
20 August
18 August
From one piece Michael Kratsios: Inside the White House's AI Strategy 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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born free technologies are ones where there aren't regulations on the books. Things of like the internet when it just started. And those are the types of technologies you have to preserve.
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A state-by-state patchwork of AI rules is something only the biggest technology companies can absorb.Their words
if you create a or allow for the creation of a patchwork of regulations, meaning there's one set of regulations for AI in California, another one in Maryland, another one in Texas. You know, the big tech guys, they can deal with that.
15 August
From one piece How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Taylor 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I know that nuclear fision will make energy a thousand times cheaper than it is today. somebody will do that and it's really up to us as a team whether or not that's going to be in the future decades or the future centuries
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Nuclear's never had its Ford moment or its Tesla moment, if you want to put it that way. And that's what Valor Atomics is working on doing. We have nuclear reactors that are more manufactured than constructed and uh they're extremely safe and we think the combination of these two things is going to allow us to scale nuclear fision and make energy 10 times cheaper for humanity.
28 July
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People talk about isn't it a bad idea to build in a regulated industry? Turns out you can change the regulations. And the way you do it is just by building the thing and communicating why it's okay.
21 July
9 July
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Cutting sulfur air pollution is now unmasking greenhouse-gas warming that aerosols had been offsetting.Their words
As air quality regulations cut sulfur emissions, warming from greenhouse gases is being unmasked.
What drove the early 20th century warming?theclimatebrink.com
30 June
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Making housing widely affordable today through the removal of development regulations would require allowing extremely low quality housing.
Some Things YIMBYs Tend To Get Wrong (and Right)strongtowns.org
28 June
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korrents.com
Good automation design starts from whether context must persist between runs, not from building a complex system.Their words
The best automations do not start with a complicated system. They start with knowing whether the next run needs a clean slate or the same thread.
15 August 2025
From one piece China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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In terms of things that are causing us to lose to China, tariffs are neither here nor there because, as we've discussed, we're not sensitive to cost on power. But the environmental regulations that are actively preventing us from deploying renewable energy in the United States, like this is the reason Texas is winning. Texas is out deploying California 10 to1.
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so the mainstream view would say, well, China has cheaper labor, which is no longer true, uh, say compared to Mexico, and it's got lower environmental regulations, uh, which is true, and that it is more businessfriendly, which is absolutely crazy.
10 November 2023
From one piece Permitting Reform Or Death 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The primary driver of increased impact, longer time scales before displacement, and catastrophically high levels of avoidable pollution is environmental protection regulations.
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The binding constraint on building anything in America is permitting and litigation, not money.Their words
Yet solar development is hopelessly snarled by dozens of different development regulations which begin with the assumption that it will permanently and severely harm the environment unless proven otherwise, at exhaustive length.
17 October 2023
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