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Jon Bateman

@JonKBateman

tech @CarnegieEndow / podcast The World Unpacked

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Jon Bateman
Jon Bateman@JonKBateman·
🎙️International Law After Iran Trump decapitated 2 countries in 2 months on the thinnest of legal pretexts. Did international law just die? Or was it always a sham? @oonahathaway told me that int'l law once worked, is now broken, & must be reimagined. youtube.com/watch?v=Vg1t33…
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Raffi Melkonian
Raffi Melkonian@RMFifthCircuit·
Oklahoma Supremes zag a bit on legal AI
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@deanwball Respectfully, why better than all govt action on AI? Govt, however clumsy, has far more resources and power available than a foundation. And at some point, govt will simply be forced by events to use those tools in ways responsive to societal needs re AI
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Andy Masley
Andy Masley@AndyMasley·
My best work
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Michael Showalter
Michael Showalter@MikeJShowalter·
@PatTalksLaw The real question is whether it's ethical for an attorney charging by the hour to not to use AI. Okay to skip Westlaw and head to the law library to canvass the Federal Reporter?
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Neil Thomas 牛犇@neilthomas123·
Excited to publish a @nytimes guest essay with my @AsiaPolicy colleague Jing Qian arguing that more U.S. officials should visit China. Seeing the country’s industrial strength up close would sharpen Washington’s sense of just how formidable a competitor it is and, ideally, spur more lawmakers to take restoring American competitiveness at home seriously. "Washington needs to restore regular travel by American policymakers to China, which dropped sharply in recent years, just as the economic and geopolitical competition between the two countries has intensified. No American president has set foot in China since Mr. Trump did in 2017, during his first term. That absence highlights a simple but troubling truth: Americans talk incessantly about the need to compete with their country’s greatest rival and how to do it. Yet many U.S. policymakers have never been to China. U.S. officials are left grappling with an abstraction. This can lead to serious misjudgments, such as the escalating tariffs Mr. Trump imposed last year, expecting they would bring China to its knees. In the end, he retreated after Beijing showed it had the tools and capacity to push back. Seeing China up close — its manufacturing juggernaut, technological and innovative capacities, state-of-the-art infrastructure and state-fostered industrial ecosystems — would help prevent such miscalculations and hopefully lead to U.S. policy that is less complacent, less theatrical and more focused on what’s actually needed to revitalize American industry. ... Restoring regular travel to China will be neither simple nor risk-free. But the greater strategic danger lies in American policies that are based on stale assumptions, secondhand impressions and an incomplete understanding of what China is building."
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catherine ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ-☆
catherine ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ-☆@wilhelmscreamin·
i don't understand why people think there are too many podcasts. there are like 3-4 good podcasts in the world. i would love there to be more good podcasts
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Dan Williams
Dan Williams@danwilliamsphil·
Excellent essay - recommend
Eric Levitz@EricLevitz

Social media undermined expert authority, democratized public debate, and steered individuals into evermore bespoke conceptions of reality. But AI could reverse these trends. As @danwilliamsphil and @dylanmatt argue, LLMs appear to be a "converging" and "technocratizing" technology -- one that increases expert influence and social consensus. This is partly because AI companies and social media firms have radically different business models: vox.com/technology/483…

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Trevor Levin
Trevor Levin@trevposts·
I did the math a couple weeks ago and it turns out a vegan prompting a frontier LLM *every second, 24/7* consumes less water than the average omnivore who never uses AI.
mary@theoceanblooms

people are trying to argue with this and it’s literally the truth. a kilogram of beef requires over 15,000 litres of water to produce. a vegan who uses chatgpt every day is living a more sustainable lifestyle than someone who regularly eats beef while boycotting AI.

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Damon Linker
Damon Linker@DamonLinker·
Interesting that prominent Israeli officials operate under the same unfalsifiable misconceptions as Americans who like to think they can spread democracy at the point of a gun.
Edward Wong@ewong

NEW from @nytimes: Netanyahu embraced a plan by the Mossad chief to ignite a regime change uprising in Iran for a quick victory. He used it to help convince Trump to start the war — despite doubts among some senior US and Israeli officials. It was a critical flaw in war plans.

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Alan Rozenshtein
Alan Rozenshtein@ARozenshtein·
Re the current debate over in AI in academic writing, the sharp distinction people are drawing between AI for writing and for research strikes me as based less on a coherent ethical distinction and more on the fact that, currently, a lot (most?) of AI writing is bad, whereas a lot of AI research can be quite good. And some are taking and hoping that it represents some fundamental feature of the technology (because if not then legal academics are cooked). But there’s nothing special about writing as a test of AI capabilities. Writing is just (like all forms of human cognitive capability, viewed at a high enough level of abstraction) pattern matching and AIs will hill climb that just as they have every other (pardon the mixed metaphor) previously moved goalpost. In a few years this will be inarguable, at which point debates about AI disclosure will become pointless and the real question will be: what are all of us who have spent our lives preparing for this narrow knowledge work career supposed to do with our lives? It’s a scary question! But it’s no excuse for clinging to a labor theory of value for our work, or to question-begging claims that only humans can produce “real knowledge,” or of making the argument that our salaries (which are mostly paid for by the tuition dollars of our students, who have no say in the matter) should primarily go to our own feelings of professional satisfaction and self expression. There are still good arguments against AI in scholarship, but they have to be about the harm to others/society, not to the people getting paid to produce the scholarship.
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Stephen Wertheim
Stephen Wertheim@stephenwertheim·
“In essence, we will be using the Iranian barrels against Tehran.”
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent@SecScottBessent

Iran is the head of the snake for global terrorism, and through President Trump’s Operation Epic Fury, we are winning this critical fight at an even faster pace than anticipated. In response to Iran’s terrorist attacks against global energy infrastructure, the Trump Administration will continue to deploy America’s economic and military might to maximize the flow of energy to the world, strengthen global supply, and seek to ensure market stability. Today, the Department of the Treasury is issuing a narrowly tailored, short-term authorization permitting the sale of Iranian oil currently stranded at sea. At present, sanctioned Iranian oil is being hoarded by China on the cheap. By temporarily unlocking this existing supply for the world, the United States will quickly bring approximately 140 million barrels of oil to global markets, expanding the amount of worldwide energy and helping to relieve the temporary pressures on supply caused by Iran. In essence, we will be using the Iranian barrels against Tehran to keep the price down as we continue Operation Epic Fury. This temporary, short-term authorization is strictly limited to oil that is already in transit and does not allow new purchases or production. Further, Iran will have difficulty accessing any revenue generated and the United States will continue to maintain maximum pressure on Iran and its ability to access the international financial system. So far, the Trump Administration has been working to bring around 440 million additional barrels of oil to the global market, undercutting Iran’s ability to leverage its disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump’s pro-energy agenda has driven U.S. oil and gas production to record levels, strengthening energy security and lowering fuel costs. Any short-term disruption now will ultimately translate into longer-term economic gains for Americans – because there is no prosperity without security.

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Gregory Brew
Gregory Brew@gbrew24·
Incredible post, one for the record books.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent@SecScottBessent

Iran is the head of the snake for global terrorism, and through President Trump’s Operation Epic Fury, we are winning this critical fight at an even faster pace than anticipated. In response to Iran’s terrorist attacks against global energy infrastructure, the Trump Administration will continue to deploy America’s economic and military might to maximize the flow of energy to the world, strengthen global supply, and seek to ensure market stability. Today, the Department of the Treasury is issuing a narrowly tailored, short-term authorization permitting the sale of Iranian oil currently stranded at sea. At present, sanctioned Iranian oil is being hoarded by China on the cheap. By temporarily unlocking this existing supply for the world, the United States will quickly bring approximately 140 million barrels of oil to global markets, expanding the amount of worldwide energy and helping to relieve the temporary pressures on supply caused by Iran. In essence, we will be using the Iranian barrels against Tehran to keep the price down as we continue Operation Epic Fury. This temporary, short-term authorization is strictly limited to oil that is already in transit and does not allow new purchases or production. Further, Iran will have difficulty accessing any revenue generated and the United States will continue to maintain maximum pressure on Iran and its ability to access the international financial system. So far, the Trump Administration has been working to bring around 440 million additional barrels of oil to the global market, undercutting Iran’s ability to leverage its disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump’s pro-energy agenda has driven U.S. oil and gas production to record levels, strengthening energy security and lowering fuel costs. Any short-term disruption now will ultimately translate into longer-term economic gains for Americans – because there is no prosperity without security.

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Dean W. Ball
Dean W. Ball@deanwball·
I was especially heartened by this section and heartily concur with the White House that Congress should act to prevent government coercion over the free speech rights of AI developers and users alike.
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Dean W. Ball@deanwball

The White House’s proposal for a nationwide AI law is a thoughtful document that will serve as an excellent foundation for the legislative work ahead. I would be happy to see these principles, if translated well into statute, become law. Congratulations to those involved!

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Peter Harrell
Peter Harrell@petereharrell·
Senior Super Micro exec + co-conspirators indicted for diverting *$2.5 billion* of Nvidia AI chips to China. Suggests massive compliance failures all around and should be a moment for US gov’t to demand chips companies fundamentally overhaul compliance. justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/t…
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Jon Bateman@JonKBateman·
@jasminewsun Wasn’t thinking of yours! There are certainly thoughtful versions of the genre
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Jason Willick
Jason Willick@jawillick·
The right gets no benefit of the doubt for launching a war against a wicked regime any more than the left gets benefit of the doubt for domestic legislation aimed at a social evil. Both may be good or bad, but must be judged on the merits, not their supposedly moral intentions.
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