This was very helpful to me and we had a good talk about things.
I do think it is a correct criticism of my post to say that I should have emphasized more that I think the rhetoric used here and the administration’s overall policy path is terrible. After seeing everyone else’s responses be so positive, and after seeing Oliver put so much emphasis on the rhetoric versus the proposals, I’m sad about that, and plan to address that going forward, likely in the weekly (given reading patterns it would not do much to try and edit the post now).
Zvi, I disagree. I think there is no positive value to you taking a position on Trump admin rhetoric being good or bad. There are a zillion people commenting on that.
Your comparative advantage is focusing on specifics; what does the AI action plan instruct federal agencies to do? How can the most important priorities be implemented most effectively? Who is thinking clearly about this and has a plan for e.g. making sure the US has an excellent federal response plan when warning shots happen? Signal boosting smart effective policies/policy thinkers is how you can best use your platform. Don’t contaminate your message with partisanship.
Wading into “Trump is good/bad” discourse isn’t going to change who wins the election. People you know already spent ridculous amounts of money on this, and were crushed. Time to ignore politics and focus on policy: specifically, complicated tech policy that most people don’t understand, that you have the ability to shape.
This was very helpful to me and we had a good talk about things.
I do think it is a correct criticism of my post to say that I should have emphasized more that I think the rhetoric used here and the administration’s overall policy path is terrible. After seeing everyone else’s responses be so positive, and after seeing Oliver put so much emphasis on the rhetoric versus the proposals, I’m sad about that, and plan to address that going forward, likely in the weekly (given reading patterns it would not do much to try and edit the post now).
Zvi, I disagree. I think there is no positive value to you taking a position on Trump admin rhetoric being good or bad. There are a zillion people commenting on that.
Your comparative advantage is focusing on specifics; what does the AI action plan instruct federal agencies to do? How can the most important priorities be implemented most effectively? Who is thinking clearly about this and has a plan for e.g. making sure the US has an excellent federal response plan when warning shots happen? Signal boosting smart effective policies/policy thinkers is how you can best use your platform. Don’t contaminate your message with partisanship.
Wading into “Trump is good/bad” discourse isn’t going to change who wins the election. People you know already spent ridculous amounts of money on this, and were crushed. Time to ignore politics and focus on policy: specifically, complicated tech policy that most people don’t understand, that you have the ability to shape.