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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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  AI policy discussions should start with China rather than treating it as an afterthought.

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  Whatever your ideas for regulating AI, I say start with China. Do not put China as an afterthought at the end of your proposal, mentioned in a vague wish that something good ought to happen and that maybe the future of humanity can be secured.

  When discussing AI policy, start with Chinamarginalrevolution.com

Founder of Platformer, a newsletter on tech platforms and the people they affect, and co-host of the Hard Fork podcast at the New York Times.

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  Regulating harmful social media design features for teens should be decided by legislatures, not left to industry agreements.

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  Whether American teenagers should be harassed after 10 p.m. by engagement-baiting push notifications ought to be a matter for Congress, not the social media cartel.

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Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.

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  A well-functioning contemplative practice should feel like an engaging encounter with mystery rather than a chore.

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  But it ought to feel good-like an engaging encounter with the mystery of being, not like a chore.

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Programmer; wrote Extreme Programming Explained and Test-Driven Development, signed the Agile Manifesto, and writes Tidy First?.

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  The wish to get rid of all the programmers keeps coming back, and programmers ought to ask themselves why, because some of the reason really is about us.

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  But now now we have this repeating this repeating, "Hey, we get to get rid of all the programmers." Which it behooves us as programmers to think about why they keep wanting to get rid of us. Some of that's about us and some of it's not, but some of it is. So we should think about that. But also that ants amps up the fear factor that everybody is experiencing.

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Psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University. Writes Psychiatry at the Margins on the philosophical and scientific arguments inside psychiatry and the psy-sciences.

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  Diagnoses that have therapeutic effects are medical interventions and should be treated and researched as such.

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  If a clinical diagnosis can have a therapeutic effect, then, at least in some instances, diagnoses are medical interventions in themselves and ought to be treated and researched as such, with an eye to both positive effects and potential iatrogenic harms.

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Software engineer and essayist who writes about programming, formal methods, philosophy and literature at thoughts.wyounas.com.

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  His thoughts on human psychology and the way he crafted his stories are why I liked this book. I have to admit, there is a lot in it that I need to absorb. I'll surely be re-reading this one sometime soon. It's one of those books that one ought to read multiple times in life because I'm certain that every time we read it, it will offer something new.

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Writes The Convivial Society, on technology and the moral life — what our tools do to attention, memory and how we treat each other.

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  Delegating care, skill, relationship, moral judgement or responsibility to a machine is different in kind from delegating a task.

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  We ought to be especially careful in the cases where what we delegate to a device, app, agent, or system is an aspect of how we express care, cultivate skill, relate to one another, make moral judgments, or assume responsibility for our actions in the world

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Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.

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  A hiring loop should have few, well-calibrated interviewers rather than many, because extra interviewers add veto points instead of judgement.

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  I used to cast a much wider net, like I felt like people ought to get to interview anyone who was being hired over them.

Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.

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  A business making hundreds of millions from an open source project owes it money or contribution, and can be refused its trademarks if it gives neither.

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  This isn’t a money grab: it’s an expectation that any business making hundreds of millions of dollars off of an open source project ought to give back, and if they don’t, then they can’t use its trademarks.

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Urban planner, co-author with Charles Marohn of Escaping the Housing Trap, and policy director at the Parking Reform Network. Wrote for Strong Towns from 2015, mostly about how housing markets actually set prices.

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  How dense a neighbourhood ought to be is a moral and political argument, not an empirical question with a discoverable right answer.

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  But understand that it’s ultimately a moral and political argument, not an empirical question of the ideal population or the exact level of housing demand in Santa Monica.

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Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.

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  The board of a nonprofit answers to no one but itself, and the board governing the road to AGI ought instead to answer to the world as a whole.

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  In this case, and I think one of the things with our structure that we maybe should have thought about more than we did is that the board of a nonprofit has, unless you put other rules in place, quite a lot of power. They don’t really answer to anyone but themselves. And there’s ways in which that’s good, but what we’d really like is for the board of OpenAI to answer to the world as a whole, as much as that’s a practical thing.

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