Our (w/ @itserinfitz) new work, "Who Considers, Who Owns? Multi-Study Evidence on the Behavioral Process of Cryptocurrency Adoption in the United States" is out in the Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services. Links in 1st reply abstract! #bitcoin #ethereum #XRP #Dogecoin

Alas this is still the error.

How to gatekeep frontier models from adversaries: - Make it cost more than $500/mo (Europoors, Luddites) - Require users to affirm that Kim Jong Un is a poopy-face (North Korea) - Require users to identify the country of Taiwan on a map (China)

I still find it baffling that Berkeley gave up its cheat code of admitting really smart, hardworking students who couldn't play the Ivy admissions game. The theme of California public institutions seems to be: Try to kill the golden geese!

RT @sapinker: "To embrace the poisonous nonsense of degrowth now — to shut down nuclear power plants, to regulate the AI industry out of ex…

He’s doing it foxnews.com/politics/progres…

So 2024. What both parties miss is that AI can be a great government vs business equalizer. If government hires people willing and able to learn how to use the same AI available to everyone, from any number of domestic model makers, it has the opportunity to serve Americans, adequately at worst, more productively and effectively , if done well and transparently The more efficient government is, the harder companies have to work to outperform it. That makes for more opportunity. What both parties have to realize is that the problem that will accelerate in this new world is crony capitalism. Both parties excel at giving our taxpayer money to their friends. Like all new technologies, AI will create new pockets of wealth that will try to buy our politicians. From both parties. The more transparency we require in government, the more we respect the right of the people to challenge that largesse, the more we restrict the ability of politicians to receive dark money , and reward their friends, the better the quality of life will be across the country. Whether you like it or not, AI has changed everything, except , our government , our politics and our politicians. Which have not changed at all. So here we are. Talking about parties and politicians that are thinking in the past. Like it’s still 2024. That’s a problem for all of us.

I made this 165 second video for my Parties & Elections class-thought I'd share. It's a remake of the classic @Voteview video with some added bells/whistles, even some music. :) youtu.be/B84qoAkjrZE Also here's a clickable/interactive website as well: kylesaunders.com/voteview/

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A few thoughts on the recent Mythos brouhaha: marginalrevolution.com/margi…

The politics around this bill continue to increase. And there’s now a call for athletes to unilaterally lose more rights. The NCAA is now seeking to have the bill retroactively apply to pending eligibility cases where an injunction was already entered. Chambliss, Sorsby, etc.

Assign more and give real grades - they can do it. The soft bigotry of low expectations!

The same week Trump offers the labs (*cough* @AnthropicAI *cough*) an equity partnership (the carrot), the government reaches for export controls to switch off a lab's flagship model (the stick). This...does not shock me. Art of the...something something.

If this is true, it is just baffling. An administration whose posture is that we *should* export advanced AI chips to China, which also wants to ban… Britain (and every other non-American on Earth)… from using our best models? I have no words.

Because this is happening to Anthropic, the temptation for many will be to say: Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. They have relentlessly raised the regulatory temperature in Washington by inviting far-reaching controls of frontier models. They made this bed and now they have to lay in it. But this decision by the Trump administration should not be judged on a desire for payback politics, but on the merits, and specifically what it means for America's broader AI objectives. In that regard, this action is truly outrageous. How exactly is the government planning on even going about verifying everyone who uses this specific model to ensure compliance? That alone raises huge flags. Between the latest Executive Order shifting more control to NSA, and the recent chatter about quasi-nationalization / equity stakes, and now this action, we are talking about a significant escalation in the politicization of AI and centralization of control over advanced computation in this country. And this is all being done by an administration that had previously made acceleration and winning the great AI race a priority. We're moving backwards now.

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