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Edward Longe, Ph.D

@EdwardLonge

State tech policy. Quoted on https://t.co/RFU34a2uq7. Director @JmsMadisonInst. Views made with enthusiasm but questionable execution 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇪

Arlington, VA Katılım Eylül 2020
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Edward Longe, Ph.D
Edward Longe, Ph.D@EdwardLonge·
$10B a year and weapons get through airport checkpoints. @RonDeSantis is right: hand airport security to the private sector, where failure has consequences. In Washington, it just gets a bigger budget.
Ron DeSantis@RonDeSantis

Is there evidence that creating TSA has made air travel safer over the past 25 years? If not, then why not let the airlines and airports handle it? Why give politicians the power to play games with the travel of our people?

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Julie Barrett
Julie Barrett@juliecbarrett·
@EdwardLonge It doesn’t prohibit it either which is what concerns me. I hope there are enough actual conservatives and people who understand the constitution around Trump
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Julie Barrett
Julie Barrett@juliecbarrett·
“Love the emphasis on age verification” (= Digital ID) This guy is former FTC, now with a right wing think tank that’s behind a lot of these “grab everyone’s data - it’s to protect the kids, we promise” policies. The right wing think tanks, parental rights orgs and Republican lawmakers are all championing universal age verification…but sure, Trump is going to shut it all down 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Edward Longe, Ph.D@EdwardLonge·
@Fla_Pol @MauriceLangston @flcscommunities The survey cited shows AI came dead last in parental concerns. 47% for AI services vs. 85% for pornography and 82% for gambling. If Florida wants to protect kids online, the data points somewhere else entirely.
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Greg Lukianoff
Greg Lukianoff@glukianoff·
Like a lot of free speech loving Americans today I have this stuck in my head: 🎵”Afroman’ll bring it tooo ya…”🎵 @ogafroman
Count Dankula@CountDankulaTV

The Afroman Trial. -Cops raid Afromans house for bullshit reasons. -Steal money, break his door, fuck his house up. -No criminality found whatsoever, no charges at all pressed on Afroman. -Afroman spends the next 3 years making songs that make fun of all the officers involved by name, even using footage of the raid from his own CCTV cameras. -Songs had titles like "Randy Walters is a son of a bitch" and "Lick Em Low Lisa" accusing one of the officers of being a lesbian and sleeping with the other officers wives. -During the raid one officer looked like he was about to eat some lemon pound cake sitting on Afromans counter, Afroman made a whole album calling the officer fat. -The cops get mad and file a lawsuit for defamation. -Afroman turns up to court in a whole American flag suit. -Officers performatively mald and cry while listening to the songs really trying to oversell how badly the songs upset them. -One officer was suing because Afroman made a whole song about him saying he was fucking the officers wife. When the officer was asked if Afroman was really fucking his wife, he said "I don't know". Nuking his own case and establishing that there is a non-zero chance that Afroman might actually be fucking his wife. -As his only witness for the trial, Afroman brought a deputies EX FUCKING WIFE. -The jury ruled completely in favour of Afroman. This entire thing has been a great win for free speech and absolutely fucking hilarious.

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Unrealrealist⏸️
Unrealrealist⏸️@PDoomOrder1·
It is one of the few means the public has to slow development down. I am somewhat cautious when people use environmental or energy-cost arguments, because those concerns could largely be mitigated, which would make opposition to data centers on those grounds less stable. That said, it has likely bought us time.
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Edward Longe, Ph.D
Edward Longe, Ph.D@EdwardLonge·
@PDoomOrder1 @BernieSanders @SenSanders Fair point on Overton window, normalizing x-risk in mainstream debate has value. But a data center moratorium is still the wrong policy vehicle for that concern. You can move the window without picking the wrong solution.
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Unrealrealist⏸️
Unrealrealist⏸️@PDoomOrder1·
Mentioning x-risk alongside unemployment and environmental concerns to justify the moratorium does not by itself prove bad faith or that he is invoking x-risk insincerely for power reasons. In fact, because x-risk is still seen as outside the mainstream, most politicians avoid it altogether. What matters is not simply that he used the argument to defend the moratorium, but that he brought x-risk into public debate over AI policy and, in doing so, moved the Overton window by making x-risk a more legitimate part of mainstream discussion.
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Edward Longe, Ph.D@EdwardLonge·
@PDoomOrder1 @BernieSanders @SenSanders My point is that Bernie Sanders isn’t calling for a moratorium on AI data centers because of existential risk concerns. He’s calling for it because of energy costs and labor displacement. Don’t dress up industrial policy as AI safety.
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Unrealrealist⏸️
Unrealrealist⏸️@PDoomOrder1·
@EdwardLonge @BernieSanders @SenSanders What is your point? Of course that would slow down development from the frontier labs. That is one of the ways that top AI safety people advocate for people slowing down development. David Krueger is a professor in AI and that's what he advocates.
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Unrealrealist⏸️
Unrealrealist⏸️@PDoomOrder1·
@EdwardLonge @BernieSanders @SenSanders Do you understand the risks this technology poses or are you just going to be a partisan? Geoff Hinton is also calling for a pause on AI development due to its risks and I don't think anyone would call him a "luddite."
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Arielle Roth
Arielle Roth@ArielleRothNTIA·
NEW @WSJopinion piece: How two hours, snow boots, & basic oversight turned a $4M broadband project into $0. D.C. asked @NTIAgov for $4M to connect just 55 “unserved” locations. That’s $70K each in one of the most broadband-dense cities in America.🚩 Something didn’t add up.🧵
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Edward Longe, Ph.D
Edward Longe, Ph.D@EdwardLonge·
77% of Florida voters want property tax reform. 35% want full elimination. Only 7% want the status quo. When three-quarters of your electorate agrees on something, that’s not a fringe position. That’s a mandate. Tallahassee, are you listening?
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Edward Longe, Ph.D
Edward Longe, Ph.D@EdwardLonge·
NEW: @JmsMadisonInst just dropped the latest JMI Poll: Florida voters weighed in on affordability, taxes, education, and the 2026 race. The results are worth your attention. 🧵
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Edward Longe, Ph.D@EdwardLonge·
71% of Florida voters say the country is “extremely” or “very” divided. 44% don’t feel safe sharing their political views in public. And yet — on property taxes, energy reliability, and education choice — broad consensus exists. Division is real, but it isn’t total.
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