Luke Eure

Immigration, Catholic, Progress Studies.

[Luke Eure @LukeEure]

A single calendar year in 2025 “contains” more human life than a year in 100,000 BCE, simply because today’s population is thousands of times larger.

The graphic divides history into ten equal “blocks” of experience: each block represents 170 billion people-years.

[Luke Eure @LukeEure]

@riftron_ Congrats Rifath! So glad we were able to support you here

[Luke Eure @LukeEure]

@akoustov @hannohilbig Salience: Accommodation can also make the issue more salient. Giving airtime to an issue where the majority of voters disagree with you is rarely good strategy.

[Luke Eure @LukeEure]

@akoustov @hannohilbig Credibility: The public does not believe that political party policy can turn on a dime. In 2024 Kamala Harris claimed she was going to be tough on immigration. This was hard to believe given the Biden Administration’s failures on the issue.

[Luke Eure @LukeEure]

@johnloeber Democratic governments are a product of tension between small l libertarian fears about what governments can do if given too much power, and a desire for highly capable states to perform public goods

It is crazy that an advanced country can not know how many people it has

[Luke Eure @LukeEure]

The type of guy who is bothered when people say “iykyk” only because I rarely k

[Luke Eure @LukeEure]

@CecilYongo At EAG SF I met the guy who ran the EA castle in Europe

People do have the wildest stories

[Luke Eure @LukeEure]

As expected, USCIS is narrowing the rhetoric from last week's memorandum

If you wish you had known this a week ago, subscribe to my substack!

[Lydia DePillis @lydiadepillis]

A week ago, USCIS announced what seemed like a dramatic change to green card processing. Then they softened it. Today they all but walked it back entirely, but nobody's resting easy. With @Haleaziz and Maddie Ngo: https://t.co/1smIIkDBIl

[Luke Eure @LukeEure]

I, for one, would be happy to never read a document again. Exciting work

[Kushal Byatnal @kushalbyatnal]

Over 1 billion PDFs are created every day, but your agents still can’t read them reliably.

Today we’re releasing Parse 2.0, the most accurate document parsing API in the world.

Extend already processes millions of pages daily for leading AI teams like Brex, Mercury, Opendoor, Flatiron Health, and hundreds of others. Now, its even better.

Parse 2.0 is SOTA quality on RealDoc-Bench, our open source benchmark that measures agent success rate on real world docs that agents actually encounter in production.

We trained Parse 2.0 on 1M+ pages of the hardest documents seen in production. Here’s how it stacks up:

- #1 in healthcare, real estate, logistics, and financial services
- 95.7% agent Q&A accuracy on 581 docs (next best: 92%)
- 0.847 F1 on layout (next best: 0.759)

Give it a try today and build production-ready document agents with Extend.

[Luke Eure @LukeEure]

@JLLiedl I'm not opposed to keeping kids away from certain forms of tech. I wasn't allowed on the internet until age 12, and had to use safe-browsing software. This was good for me

It's a lack of creativity to think the only way to protect kids is to make platform access illegal

[Luke Eure @LukeEure]

Reflections on the encyclical:

1. I'm a lifelong practicing Catholic, never read an encyclical before, and am impressed with how readable it was

2. lol he really calls out SF, saying transhumanism and posthumanism, which "form the ideological background present in some centers of technological power"

3. Most of the prominent teachings of the Catholic Church are quite basic: Love each other, care for the poor, war is evil. The value of this encyclical should be to normalize and articulate fairly commonsense ethical ideas about AI within the Catholic framework. In this it succeeds!

4. Church Social Doctrine is described as "a process of shared discernment". This seems like a productive approach

5. "A more moral AI is not enough if that morality is determined by a few." Development and deployment of AI should involve "openly discussing the ethical frameworks involved and subjecting them to shared standards of social justice"

6. Makes some good (not groundbreaking) points on education and work. Overall the church can provide valuable moral leadership

7. Education: "Educating people about the use of AI, then, involves teaching them to decide when and for what purpose it ought not to be used. The speed and ease with which answers or summaries can be obtained risk extinguishing the desire to ask questions, which is a process that bears fruit only over time.

8. Work: Lack of work leads to “forced inactivity, a lack of responsibility and the absence of daily tasks and stimuli, resulting in human and cultural impoverishment.”

9. Some of the specific policy recommendations don’t seem great to me, e.g., at one points it sounds like he is recommending setting age controls on model access.

10. Some are unhappy with this statement, but I found it powerful, and true (at least for the AI systems we have now): "No computational system, however sophisticated, can create a heart that gives itself, or a conscience that discerns good from evil. Even when machines excel in efficiency, a human face that asks to be gazed upon remains the center of our history."

[Luke Eure @LukeEure]

@PatrickHeizer Thank you, this gave me the kick I needed to order Rerum Novarum. Will be reading it soon!

[Luke Eure @LukeEure]

@krishnanrohit Most of the prominent teachings of the Catholic Church are quite basic: Love each other, care for the poor, war is evil. The value of this encyclical should be to normalize and articulate fairly commonsense ethical ideas about AI within the Catholic framework

[Luke Eure @LukeEure]

Magnifica Humanitas in a nutshell

[Luke Eure @LukeEure]

@Romy_Holland Super fun thanks for sharing!

[Luke Eure @LukeEure]

For all you thinking about the new USCIS memorandum: Remember that the majority of Trump's big immigration policies have been watered down or struck down in courts

[Luke Eure @LukeEure]

@johnloeber Yeah officer discretion has always been the case. Tbh my guess would be that officer behavior doesn’t change much even for people on F-1s

We shall see!

[Luke Eure @LukeEure]

@johnloeber As always, the ultimate decision is left to officer discretion. We don't know how much this memo will actually change officer behavior

[Luke Eure @LukeEure]

@johnloeber But the memorandum does say "maintaining lawful status in a dual intent nonimmigrant category is not sufficient, on its own, to warrant a favorable exercise of discretion." H-1Bs are not carved out