Simon Hedlin
@simonhedlin
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Lawyer and policy researcher who wants AI to be safe, secure, and broadly beneficial. Views my own. MA Columbia & JD/MPP Harvard. [email protected]
Washington, DC
Joined April 2010
On the topic of billionaires and wealth taxes in California, I am opposed to wealth taxes because they effectively represent an expropriation of private property and have many unintended and negative consequences that have occurred in every country that has launched such a tax.
The way to fix this problem is to make borrowing an amount in excess of your basis in a stock taxable. In other words, if you have $10 billion of stock in a company you founded with zero basis, loans secured by the stock should be taxable as if you sold a like amount of stock.
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Latest Geostrategy polling examines US attitudes to Trump's radical foreign policy moves. Public support for acquiring Greenland is very low. Just 29% approve of using federal funds to buy the territory. Support drops further if force were to be used: 13% approve, 87% oppose.
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Hoping this is true but fearing (and think it’s much more likely) that it’s not.
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If more people acted this way, the world would be a much better place.
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Are you also advocating bringing back elevator operators to all elevators?
I fully agree with @Teamsters. Self-driving trucks should *always* be supervised by a qualified professional to keep our roads safe. It’s a necessary partnership for America’s highways and economy.
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To guarantee Trump a third term? Or what else could be the reason?
Harris stepping toward another White House run
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Long overdue. Dulles is a terrible airport.
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Microsoft is stacking the deck in Edge’s favor. It’s time to level the playing field. Protect consumers’ right to choose their default desktop browser. Learn more.
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Imagine if everyone at work showed up with this level of commitment
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Who knew you could make money so quickly from making whole grain cereal
Kalshi is now worth $11 billion, making both its founders billionaires and Luana Lopes Lara the world’s youngest self-made woman billionaire. https://t.co/qZY5384ePW (Photo: Kalshi)
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I've never heard anybody explain what societal problem exactly that this is meant to solve
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Play the long game.
Netflix rejected a $12M offer from Bezos in 1999. Blockbuster "laughed [Netflix] out of the room" when Netflix offered to sell to them for $50M. Today they announced their acquisition of Warner Bros, and have a market cap of $426B.
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That’s not banishing hunger. That’s lack of access to healthy food.
Humanity has so thoroughly banished hunger that, as of this year, there are more obese kids than there are underweight kids.
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AI progress isn’t just about scale. It’s about understanding. From Davos, @PatrickMoorhead talks with @ericxing of @mbzuai about world models, the limits of today’s “book-smart” AI, and why universities sit at the center of responsible acceleration.
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Can’t really tell if this is a news article or an ad.
Treat yourself! ‘Perfect’ private jet flights for the masses take off — leather seats and no TSA checkpoints for as little as $149 https://t.co/cAZEezIBYA
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How does profiting on polarization contribute to the common good?
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
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Trust became the difference. Engagement became entertainment. You became the media.
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Staying one night at an average hotel in Manhattan costs about as much as a full month's rent on average nationwide. What's going on?
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That’s exactly why.
why is it that vacationing in Europe is so amazing, and yet, the largest company in Europe is 10% the size of NVIDIA. https://t.co/U40WM413Qr
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Love when an LLM tries to persuade me with its real-life, cross-country experience.
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