Greg Lukianoff

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[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

Monty Python’s @JohnCleese makes a point here that should be obvious, but somehow isn’t.

Learning usually starts with the uncomfortable realization that you weren’t misled by villains or harmed by disagreement. You were just wrong.

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

Watch now!

https://t.co/EuFlf2v2dN

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

Censorship doesn’t solve social conflict. It often makes it worse.

I joined @afterpartyemily to discuss the Belfast riots, what America can learn from Europe, and the man jailed 37 days over a Trump meme who just won a massive settlement.

Thanks for having me, @emilyjashinsky.

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

@cremieuxrecueil You’re on

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

@senatorshoshana no

[Ian Runkle/Runkle of the Bailey @ YouTube @IanRunkle]

I had a class in law school with a prof who would arrange brief student arguments on a point. He'd pick controversial topics, and go "Okay, you argue for, you argue against."

After the five minute argument, "Okay, switch."

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

Censors always think they are on the “right side of history.“

Always.

But history has more directions than two.

[Rural Revival @RuralRevive]

@glukianoff Censorship will arrive covered in a coating that is more palatable for a good chunk of the population to swallow.

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

Censorship rarely wears a name tag.

It shows up in disguises like government jawboning, a social media tax, and conference security removing researchers for sharing the organizer’s own editorial

The costumes change. The principle does not.

https://t.co/gCM4SiDZNT

[Adam Thierer @AdamThierer]

Because this is happening to Anthropic, the temptation for many will be to say: Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. They have relentlessly raised the regulatory temperature in Washington by inviting far-reaching controls of frontier models. They made this bed and now they have to lay in it.

But this decision by the Trump administration should not be judged on a desire for payback politics, but on the merits, and specifically what it means for America's broader AI objectives.

In that regard, this action is truly outrageous. How exactly is the government planning on even going about verifying everyone who uses this specific model to ensure compliance? That alone raises huge flags.

Between the latest Executive Order shifting more control to NSA, and the recent chatter about quasi-nationalization / equity stakes, and now this action, we are talking about a significant escalation in the politicization of AI and centralization of control over advanced computation in this country. And this is all being done by an administration that had previously made acceleration and winning the great AI race a priority.

We're moving backwards now.

[Will Creeley @WillatFIRE]

"If only states and the companies they can call on a Friday night get to decide who may use the strongest tools, then the kill switch will not be an emergency measure. It will be the architecture of an unfree society, built quietly, in the name of keeping us safe."

[FIRE @TheFIREorg]

An open society means trusting people with hard truths, foreign ideas, and competing values.

That’s the test of free expression.

[FIRE @TheFIREorg]

Free speech is sustained by the people who choose to fight for it.

We’re seeking a Philanthropy Officer to strengthen relationships with existing supporters and engage new free speech defenders across the country.

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

@HalcyonDave2020 @RaminNasibov lol

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

Backdoor censorship is still censorship.

And a censor doesn’t stop being a censor because it uses a middleman.

This week’s Weekly Speech Update leads with the JAWBONE Act and the fight to stop outsourced censorship.

Read the latest, featuring @tyler_tone, @StrangelEdweird, @marie_mac99, @aaronterr1, @natehoneycutt, @SamuelAbramsAEI, @JMchangama, and @emilyjashinsky.

https://t.co/e7ZuaqiBlh

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

Censorship rarely wears a name tag.

It shows up in disguises like government jawboning, a social media tax, and conference security removing researchers for sharing the organizer’s own editorial

The costumes change. The principle does not.

https://t.co/gCM4SiDZNT

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

@cynthiamcgillis It’s OK, walking and thinking is much better :-)

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

An invaluable thread on a crazy news day!

[Ashkhen Kazaryan @Ashkhen]

First Amendment, Fable and Anthropic... Let's dig into the constitutional core. Software and the publication of model components are expression. That is why US export rules already carve out published and open source software 1/5

[Jacob Mchangama @JMchangama]

Fable ban fits recent pattern. Trump admin attacks and ridicules 🇪🇺 for its tech- and speech regulation, then imposes its own version. Digital Sovereignty is now a transatlantic phenomenon in different manifestations.
🇪🇺driven by fear + weakness
🇺🇸driven by hostility + hubris

[Alan Rozenshtein @ARozenshtein]

This may become the first big First Amendment AI case.