.@skupor tells @JTLonsdale on @AmOptimistShow at @uaustinorg that taxpayers spend $2 billion a year on 119 federal HR systems that don't talk to each other. Folding them into one cuts it to $40 million.

Sen. @tedcruz warns against AI regulations that could hand edge to China: "We could have government shut down the AI industry in America, and you know what would happen? China would catch up in six months and soar ahead. We wouldn't have the tools to defend ourselves."

.@rabois on the AI doom discourse: "There's a question of whether these people should be building or working there, or forfeiting their equity if they really believe they're doing something that's bad or evil." "In my opinion, the world is getting a little tired of some of this." "We had the gloom and doom about jobs — 'All jobs are going away. There won't be any jobs left for humans.'" "It could still happen, but all the evidence as of today is to the contrary. Every single piece of evidence. You can't find any evidence that AI is creating job loss. If anything, it's creating jobs." "Then they're like, 'Oh my God, the world's going to end.' Ok, well, it's hard to falsify that. With AI and jobs, at least you can falsify it. But this one's a little harder to falsify." "Articulate how the world ends. Because then, at least, we can start trying to falsify the predicates. And prove or try to disprove that there's some risk there." "The burden is on people arguing for regulation or slowing things down to articulate what goes wrong, why, and how, so that people can probe, push back, and try to evaluate that risk." "And I've yet to see a compelling answer to that, that's not just like, 'I know because I was working on it, and it's really dangerous.'"

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