@DavidSacks @lukensort Why do those saying things like this presume such superhuman capabilities or attributes of government especially if they are students of the past?
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Steven Sinofsky
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Steven Sinofsky
@stevesi
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Steven Sinofsky retweetledi
The Pope rightly warns that AI must serve human dignity, not become a tool of domination or exclusion.
But if we hand governments sweeping power over AI development in the name of safety, how do we prevent it from being used to censor, surveil, and control citizens — as Orwell foretold in 1984?
This is the real alignment problem.
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes.” Who will guard the guardians?
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
The oldest questions of human nature and authority don’t disappear in the AI age. They become newly relevant.
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@seattleiscrazy @stevemur Just historic numbers from city web sites. The data isn't perfect because of modality of housing units (multi v house v room) and duration rent v lease, etc.
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Seattle has a 7% or more rental vacancy rate and adds generally 10,000 rental units per year, (5-7% of total rental supply.) About 10-15% of those additions are "affordable" units (subsidized or mandated).
These 1800 units over 6+ years are incredibly costly, when the city and state do not have the funds to support this. So instead this requires more borrowed money.
Guy Oron@GuyOron
NEW: The Seattle Social Housing Developer just bought its first building, the start of its ambitious plan to acquire 1,800 units over the next 6 years and fulfill its voter mandate. Read the full story in @TheStranger: thestranger.com/news/seattle-s…
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This is a pretty deep question / assertion that is difficult (for me) to disagree with right now.
It reminds me of the first "letter quality" printer in Upson Hall and how using it for freshman work generated reactions from my professors. Many thought the "format" distracted from the content and was some sort of ruse on my part. Others thought the formatting caused them to look more carefully at the work as a result. Still others told me to use a typewriter like a normal student.
A wakeup call was a a chemistry lab I turned in with one note on the first page "Incredible presentation. Crap writeup. See me!"
Then Macintosh came out and everything changed. What will be Macintosh for AI generated/assisted writing?
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A lot of the emails I get from founders are now written in a hard-hitting journalistic style. I know they're written by AI, because no founder ever wrote this way before. And once you realize something is written by AI, it's hard not to ignore it.
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@FreddyKruegerDB i got one for you... Ed O'Neil has been reading the same Newspaper for 20 years!
Married w/ Children and Modern Family 🤣
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I am absolutely mind blown.
Karate Kid vs A Nightmare on Elm Street 2
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Steven Sinofsky retweetledi
1/ It's 1985.
I just did stand-up on David Letterman the night before. Five minutes. I'm 27 years old and I think I've made it.
My agent calls me the next day and fires me.
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@jsneedles Not much of a cultural event then in a world where culture lasts an afternoon.
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@stevesi To be fair, I’ve watched Colbert like 95% of eps for years.
But always the following morning!
Feels like live is irrelevant?
How bout within 48hrs of release?
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55M people watched the final Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
15M people watched the final Jay Leno.
14M people watched the final David Letterman.
Variety@Variety
The series finale of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” drew 6.74M viewers on Thursday night, making it the most-watched weeknight episode in the show’s history. • The finale was up sharply from the show’s 2026 Q1 average of 2.69M viewers • It’s also above “The Late Show” series premiere on Sept. 8, 2015, which averaged 6.55M viewers • The most-watched episode remains Colbert’s post-Super Bowl broadcast on Feb. 7, 2016, which drew 20.55M viewers variety.com/2026/tv/news/t…
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A fact that has lived rent free in my head since the moment I read it
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@stevesi The final episode of The Ed Sullivan Show on March 28, 1971 - Approximately 18.6 million viewers
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If you haven't explored it, The Big History Project does an incredible job on the rise of the first cities and growth. oerproject.com/Big-History/Un…
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More that people seem to be trying to make this a cultural moment primarily because of political polarization, but in practice the reach of the show was tiny and while sad for it to end on some levels, it was not the national touchstone being talked about. Carson and Letterman were generational.
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@stevesi Hard to say anything other than late night TV overall is considerably less popular than it was in 1992?
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CEOs were routinely blown away by what "the kids" were doing with Word, Excel, PowerPoint in the 1990s. They had no idea where those fancy documents came from and how but they loved them.
Many never learned and fell behind.
Aaron Levie@levie
CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis because they’re sufficiently distant from the last mile of work that still has to happen to generate most value with AI. So when they play with AI, they see the happy path results, often not considering the next 10 or 20 things that have to happen to get sustainable results from agents. “Look I made this awesome product prototype”. Yes but you didn’t have to review the code before it went into production and fix a bunch of issues. “Look I generated a contract”. Yes but you didn’t verify all the terms before it goes out to the counterparty and didn’t have to wire up all the past contracts to work with. The best thing you can do as a CEO is to use AI a *ton* to figure out the real implications of agents in the enterprise, and come out the other side with an appreciation for both the upside and the real work that goes into them.
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@stekkerauto @pagents_22 Do we reply, block, report, thumbs down? No idea what to do but now think these replies amplified such nonsense.
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@pagents_22 @stevesi thank you for this deep take, random AI 😣
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Teledesic:StarLink :: EMC::GFS :: Client/Server:Cloud
Expensive, niche, failure prone, scarce replaced by cheap, commodity, redundant, volume.
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They should just call 911 if there's a problem.
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Seattle City Council President Joy Hollingsworth is asking SPD to have two officers at every Seattle City Council meeting. She stopped by the Gee & Ursula Show to explain exactly why.
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NAACP calls for boycott of Southern college sports programs over voting rights pbs.org/newshour/polit… // they should focus on the SCORE Act which is a textbook example of regulatory capture by NCAA and penalizes all college athletes after their NIL win.
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