I think "It is always more complicated than it seems" is a good rule of thumb for life.

RT @EnricoShippole: We open-sourced 99% of US caselaw on @huggingface. Both AI and legal tech companies are selling this data for a high pr….

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Simplebroker quick start:. # Create a queue and write a message.$ broker write myqueue "Hello, World!". # Read the message (removes it).$ broker read myqueue.Hello, World!. # Write from stdin.$ echo "another message" | broker write myqueue -. # Read all messages at once.$ broker.

Released a fun little utility that I use for coordinating multiple agents (like claude code):. Simplebroker: A lightweight, no-configuration message broker/queue for cli tools. $ pipx install simplebroker.$ broker write tasks "ship it 🚀".$ broker read tasks.ship it 🚀.

RT @copyrightlately: The day before Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter was fired, the Copyright Office quickly and quietly dropped a m….

Pity the four of us who used em-dashes naturally. Now everyone thinks we're ChatGPTing everything.

RT @MEGUjuke: The Japanese government has fully committed to advancing AI. The Personal Information Protection Commission has amended priva….

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The first major decision on AI training has come out - Thomson Reuters v. Ross. The court found on summary judgment that use for training an AI was not a fair use. For those not breathlessly waiting on each new AI case, the background is this: Thomson Reuters owns Westlaw, one.

RT @neil_chilson: Vice President @JDVance is in Paris for the AI Summit and just gave one of the most pro-innovation speeches I've ever hea….

The report is at And on a purely personal note, I was happy to see that my comments were among the most-cited by the Office (search for "Lindberg") even though they were not attributed in the main text.

I finished reading through the US Copyright Office's report on AI copyrightability. My take: They are doubling down on their mistaken policy that "prompts alone.do not provide sufficient human control to make users of an AI system the authors of the output" (p. 17). They continue.

RT @aftfuture: By Vetoing SB 1047, Governor @GavinNewsom helped the AI research community avoid a crisis. Here's our plan to stop another….

RT @pyconcolombia: Van Lindberg @VanL will be one of our Keynote for PyCon Colombia 2024. Van is Founder/CEO at OSPOCO. Lawyer Specialist o….

Paul R. Ehrlich::The Population Bomb as AI Doomers::P(Doom). Both feature confident assertions of quickly approaching apocalypse based on the idea that we have too much development. Ehrlich was wrong. Millions (possibly even billions) are poorer and unhappier as a result.

Empirically, people in positions like "director of customer success" create value. But listening to them almost always makes me want to pull my hair out.

I'm listening to a panel of speakers from different companies. The way they talk about AI safety makes it clear that it's all about mitigating *their* risks. Their "AI Safety" means "Safety from lawsuits.".

Warning: Jargon. I've been thinking about why AI x-risk doesn't seem like a big deal to me, at least yet. I think it comes down to the complexity of ML models. Theorem 1: All forms of computation of higher complexity than a DFA/NFA incorporate a place to write intermediate.

PSA: For the past eight months I have been working with the amazing @glynnak to put together PLI's Artificial Intelligence Law 2024 (. If you are a lawyer, there is a good chance you have access already and can stream it for free. We expanded the program.

If one wanted to dip their toes into the fediverse, is self hosting a reasonable option? Can I get it on my own domain without doing so? Are there any other implementations other than the node+ruby one? would there be a preferred server? Anything else? cc @luis_in_brief.