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Zvi, how can we reach you to connect you with lawmakers? I could not find your email. Please email me at sean@pauseai.info.

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I lover your summaries. I'm in healthcare not tech so a lot is over my head. I wonder if you would ever consider writing a piece on how the average citizen can use AI to date. Like, if you want to make a cool image use..., or if you're interested in health or medicine check out...or even a list of things to use AI for currently. Thank you for all your work.

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your discussion of the 99%-bar in academia seems to lend an awful lot of credence to this stranger's off-the-cuff declaration of 99% certainty. i suspect they would not take betting odds at 99% and are significantly less confident than that in reality.

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Ok, we need to hear this Magic/JD Vance story explained

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Obvious statement is obvious: it's now unambiguously to policy advocates' benefit to sign up for Twitter Premium. Is Premium+ worth the extra $7 a month over just Premium?

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Either you're actively using Twitter on the posting side or you're not. If you are, even a modest boost is worth $7. If you're not, don't bother.

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thanks!

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At least one person I respect has had a positive view of Microsoft's policy advocacy, but I've always been dubious; see https://ailabwatch.org/resources/company-advocacy/#microsoft

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If Vance actually gets in touch with you, this is evidence that the trump presidency is positive because the other candidate would not have done the same, although I’m also nervous that situational awareness is a terrible idea

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Re your question about why would US Gov be slumming with Meta and Palantir, vs OpenAI/Anthropic - as should be no surprise, it's regulations/compliance. There's a lot of compliance hoops to even be able to use a SaaS app for unclass but sensitive data (think PII or HIPAA). To use for national security stuff is notably higher. And not just documentation requirements, but limitations on personnel and more. Palantir has already done this so just an incremental add, whereas it'd really bog down the other frontier models.

The frontier models may get forced there for national security reasons per Sensenbrenner, but even a high profile crash effort is going to take 9-12 months to implement the mundane controls and validate. (I have a cloud SaaS partner who will remain unnamed who has been promising and trying this for >3 years now -- the whole mindset just goes against Silicon Valley ways of thinking and building).

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> Finally, note to self, probably still don’t use SQLite if you have a good alternative? Twice is suspicious, although they did fix the bug same day and it wasn’t ever released.

Evidence that SQLite is among the highest-quality software artifacts we have: https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html

"100% MCDC test coverage. That’s modified condition decision coverage of the code. Your tests have to cause each branch operation in the resulting binary code to be taken and to fall through at least once.

... I had this idea, I’m going to write tests to bring SQLite up to the quality of 100% MCDC, and that took a year of 60 hour weeks. That was hard, hard work. I was putting in 12 hour days every single day. I was just getting so tired of this because with this sort of thing, it’s the old joke of, you get 95% of the functionality with the first 95% of your budget, and the last 5% on the second 95% of your budget. It’s kind of the same thing. It’s pretty easy to get up to 90 or 95% test coverage. Getting that last 5% is really, really hard and it took about a year for me to get there, but ... We just didn’t really have any bugs for the next eight or nine years."

https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/

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