Ben Napier
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@BenNapier
Government Affairs Partner @a16z | Prev Floor Director for @SteveScalise, @RulesReps, @OHRGOPCaucus
- Drafted a blog post - Used an LLM to meticulously improve the argument over 4 hours. - Wow, feeling great, it’s so convincing! - Fun idea let’s ask it to argue the opposite. - LLM demolishes the entire argument and convinces me that the opposite is in fact true. - lol The LLMs may elicit an opinion when asked but are extremely competent in arguing almost any direction. This is actually super useful as a tool for forming your own opinions, just make sure to ask different directions and be careful with the sycophancy.
Thank you @POTUS, @DavidSacks47, @mkratsios47, and the full WH team for your leadership in pushing a national AI framework forward. Like other major industries in the United States, AI needs strong oversight from the federal government to protect the American public and to provide clear rules for our innovators. Today is a big step. Now Congress needs to come together and act! We’re proud to support Little Tech in finding the right legislative solutions so the U.S. can continue to lead in AI.
My joint statement with Leader @SteveScalise, @HouseCommerce Chairman @RepGuthrie, @JudiciaryGOP Chairman @Jim_Jordan, and @housescience Chairman @RepBrianBabin on committing to act on the artificial intelligence (AI) framework released today by the Trump Administration: AI has begun to demonstrate its potential to improve Americans’ lives. To ensure we continue to harness its potential and beat China in the global AI race, Congress must take action. Today, the Trump Administration took a critical step in releasing a framework that gives Congress a roadmap to pursue legislation that provides innovators with much-needed certainty, while protecting consumers and prioritizing kids’ online safety. @HouseGOP looks forward to working across the aisle to enact a national framework that unleashes the full potential of AI, cements the U.S. as the global leader, and provides important protections for American families.
BREAKING: @drewcoffman is joining a16z crypto to lead social
I was in the meeting. The most senior Biden Admin staff were there. Everything Marc said is accurate. The YC comment is misleading because: A) Some of the Biden AI executive order directives were not completed after the President dropped out B) more importantly, much of the discussion was about what the Admin planned to do later in 2024 and in a second Biden term (this meeting happened before he dropped out).
Another day, another precedent-setting ruling for DeFi. Today, Judge Failla dismissed with prejudice the Risley class action against @Uniswap Labs and @haydenzadams. The Federal charges had previously been dismissed, and today the various state claims are dismissed. Again, the premise is simple: “Plaintiffs’ theories of liability are still predicated on Defendants having ‘facilitated’ the scam trades ‘by providing a marketplace and facilities for bringing together buyers and sellers of Tokens[.]’ Though the claims have changed, the result is the same: Plaintiffs cannot hold Defendants liable for the misconduct of the unidentified third-party issuers.” To take my favorite quote from the last dismissal: It “‘defies logic’ that a drafter of a smart contract, a computer code, could be held liable … for a third party user’s misuse of the platform.” Read the opinion here: courtlistener.com/docket/6321327…
News: Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon were the AI experts who briefed Senate Republicans today, per multiple attendees
Yes. We need a moratorium on data center construction.
JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon at an investor cocktail event last night on AI (part 2): "What if, I think there are 2 million commercial truckers in the United States, and there are lots of other examples you can give. There's a thought exercise, and you could push a button, eliminate all of them, and they make $120,000 on average. Save fuel, save lives, save time, a more efficient system, less disrupted highways, all that beautiful stuff. Would you do it if you put 2 million people on the street where even if there are jobs available, that next job is $25,000 a year, stocking shelves. I was saying, "That's kind of really bad, kind of civilly, should we as society agree to that?" I don't think so. I was talking about the business and government, and they should start thinking today, not when it happens, what would we do to deal with the [AI] issue? It's got to be business and government."
