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States should be allowed to regulate AI because realistically Congress won't
Let’s not give AI a decade-long free pass from regulation.
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Rule #2: There are always underlying assumptions.
When properly assessing any conclusion, it is essential to enumerate the underlying assumptions.
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Issues with widespread bipartisan agreement that never go anywhere
A marker for why we need more structural governance reform.
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U.S. AI-labor protests could eventually resemble the French Yellow-Vest protests
When millions recently took to the streets over economic insecurity.
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May 2025

How science funding literally pays for itself
By growing the economy enough that future tax revenues exceed initial expenditure.
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Will the AI backlash spill into the streets?
The answer hinges on how severe and prolonged the economic disruption becomes—particularly for jobs.
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Americans’ tolerance for lengthy economic disruption due to tariffs is seemingly very low.
A potential pitfall for future “short-term pain, long-term gain” economic policy proposals.
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Science funding was already way too low.
Restoring the status quo is not good enough; we should increase federal research funding to something like three times the previous level.
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Rule 1: Reality is always more complicated.
I’ve always been drawn to characters with “rules.”
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April 2025

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