Jasmine Sun
Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.
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Mass movements are most effective when aimed at narrow, specific goals rather than broad ones.
Their wordsMass movements are most effective when directed at narrow and specific aims, like stopping a specific data center project, a $15 minimum wage, or banning phones from schools.
↗🌻 notes on AI & popular politicsjasmi.news 1st of 3 in this piece
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If the next AI accident directly harms people, pressure for radical AI policy change will ramp up.
Their wordsIf the next accident impacts people directly-as data centers and child safety already have, or job displacement and cyber-risks might in the near future-pressure will ramp for radical policy change.
↗🌻 notes on AI & popular politicsjasmi.news 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordspeople don't like AI, but they'd hate a stock market crash more. The economy is a top-five voting issue and AI is not.
↗🌻 notes on AI & popular politicsjasmi.news 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 8 weeks earlier
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Voters are increasingly drawn to fearless, populist 'fighter' candidates over establishment figures.
Americapoliticsbehavioural science
Their wordsAbdul's victory is a blow to the Democratic establishment in a crucial swing state-and a lesson in the kinds of fearless, populist, "fighter" candidates that today's voters increasingly want to support.
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Opposition to data center buildouts is fundamentally driven by public anger about money in politics.
Their wordsHis Lansing rally with Bernie and AOC, more than anything else, crystallized the connection between data center opposition and voters' anger about money in politics.
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Their wordsMost workers in America today, and most who are vulnerable to AI displacement, don't have organized representation.
↗🌻 no data centers in my backyardjasmi.news 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsRather, the way that AI companies engage with communities-forcing NDAs, dangling billion-dollar promises, pushing environmental externalities far away from AI's wealthy user base-resembles a classic story about dark money in politics.
↗🌻 no data centers in my backyardjasmi.news 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 8 weeks earlier
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Careers no longer span fifty years; people should now plan in roughly five-year horizons.
Their wordsThere is no such thing as a fifty-year career anymore. At maximum, plan for five.
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Their wordsHumans will not win by trying to outrun the AIs. They are more powerful slop cannons than you are.
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Their wordsThe AI tools are undifferentiated and everyone has them. Your comparative advantage has to be about you.
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Their wordsI think the value of summary will go down, and the value of secrets will go up.
↗🌻 conversations on culture in the AI agejasmi.news 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsI think the value of static content will go down, and the value of live interaction will go up.
↗🌻 conversations on culture in the AI agejasmi.news 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThe value of bureaucracies will go down, and the value of founders will go up.
↗🌻 conversations on culture in the AI agejasmi.news 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 3 weeks earlier
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Their wordsFirst, because it signals how much collateral damage the A.I. companies will tolerate en route to A.G.I. And second, because the production of a social underclass is a policy choice.
↗🌻 notes on AI, labor, and Chinajasmi.news 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsUnfortunately, I think building "tool AI" is basically cope.
↗🌻 notes on AI, labor, and Chinajasmi.news 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThe same technology that augments workers in a growing firm automates workers in a shrinking one.
↗🌻 notes on AI, labor, and Chinajasmi.news 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 4 weeks earlier
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Their wordsFrom now until forever, most people regulating, protesting, and talking about AI will not be interested in AI per se, but rather how it impacts their preexisting belief systems and political agendas.
↗🌻 AI populism's warning shotsjasmi.news 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsBacklash is also the inevitable consequence of AGI-pilling the nation.
↗🌻 AI populism's warning shotsjasmi.news 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThat's why I don't think accelerationist steamrolling will work. The only way this conflict resolves peacefully is some kind of grand bargain: a flagship policy plan that directly addresses the public's top fears about AI and meaningfully redistributes the gains.
↗🌻 AI populism's warning shotsjasmi.news 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 3 weeks earlier
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Good writing is hard to train into AI models because writing quality is hard to evaluate.
Their words"Good writing" is hard to train because it's hard to evaluate.
↗🌻 why LLMs are bad writers but good editorsjasmi.news 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their words"Good writing" requires a grounding in real-life experience.
↗🌻 why LLMs are bad writers but good editorsjasmi.news 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsAn LLM may not be able to write a good story yet, but it can already evaluate them.
↗🌻 why LLMs are bad writers but good editorsjasmi.news 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 3 weeks earlier
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Their wordsIt's hard to control a technology once you release it upon the world.
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On the current trajectory, AI will do more to threaten civil liberties than to protect them.
Their wordsOn the default path, I think AI will do more to threaten civil liberties than to preserve them.
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Their wordsMany AI researchers are overly focused on risks from model misalignment, and will be in for a rough surprise when havoc arises from other layers of the stack.