Aidan

all takes, no substack

[Aidan @aaoconnor]

Just so, but imagine Harry Dean Stanton finishing this scene and exiting into a John Wick-style finale that ruins the whole thing.

[dom nero @dominicknero]

at first i thought it was completely bizarre in the odyssey when christopher nolan randomly replicates an entire scene from wim wenders "paris texas”. but actually….paris texas is kinda also the odyssey as well isnt it. is every story secretly just the odyssey?

[Aidan @aaoconnor]

Ah, right, superintelligent lawyers—well known for efficient litigation.

[Timothy B. Lee @binarybits]

I like the way Mark Zuckerberg is thinking about superintelligence and AI safety. https://t.co/mz2zriysaH

[baber @bakerbakerbaker]

theyre landing at ohare

[Aidan @aaoconnor]

@ankurnagpal @mttgrmm @packyM How much of your expense ratio is reserved for 40 Act litigation?

[Aidan @aaoconnor]

@CIA_Squirrel @Unlearned_Hand (Alito, J., concurring)—an argument that should carry more force and possibly command a majority after today.

[Aidan @aaoconnor]

@CIA_Squirrel @Unlearned_Hand But see Jones (2012)…one license plate tracker may not pose issues, but what about a whole city network of them?

[Aidan @aaoconnor]

@OrinKerr Didn’t you raise the advisory opinion argument in Davis? If J. Alito now thinks overcoming the good faith exception is necessary for defendant cert, I don’t see how his prior dismissal of your concern in Davis can be harmonized. Eager to read more from you about this.

[Aidan @aaoconnor]

@rachelmetz Bug not a feature

[Aidan @aaoconnor]

@cperruna What makes Sally’s the best in the world is they can tell you’re from New Jersey before you walk through the door.

[Aidan @aaoconnor]

@WillManidis Read more Hayek.

[Aidan @aaoconnor]

@gfodor Read more Hayek.

[Aidan @aaoconnor]

@ProfRobAnderson Giving Bloomberg a run for his money.

[Aidan @aaoconnor]

@dilanesper Would be better to express this in Bayesian conditional probabilities, which is also the most elegant way to describe probable cause. Also, assuming independence in the variables hurts any analogy to a criminal case—we’re just talking about courts of public opinion at that point.

[Aidan @aaoconnor]

@brian_a_burns @neal_katyal Still some work to do on causation, it seems.

[Danny Zeta Cocinando Desertoras @TvDannyZ]

Existe algo como un católico étnico? Gente que fue criada católica pero no cree

[gregorein @Gregorein]

so... I audited Garry's website after he bragged about 37K LOC/day and a 72-day shipping streak.

here's what 78,400 lines of AI slop code actually looks like in production.

a single homepage load of https://t.co/TqaEZsF44N downloads 6.42 MB across 169 requests.

for a newsletter-blog-thingy.
1/9🧵

[Aidan @aaoconnor]

Hard Bermuda wrap market incoming

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

Karma is finally coming for Meta, through the legal system.

As we await a verdict in Los Angeles on whether social media platforms were designed to addict young people, it's important to note that TWO courts have already ruled against Meta in the past month.

1) Yesterday, a jury in New Mexico established that Meta's platforms are not safe for kids, and that their design enabled the exploitation of children. This is a watershed moment: This is the FIRST time a jury has evaluated the evidence. The evidence was so compelling that the jury said Meta should pay $375 million dollars in civil penalties for the harms it has caused to New Mexico and its citizens.
See here:
https://t.co/llbeDLgkVS

2. But it gets worse for Meta: a few weeks ago, in Delaware, a court ruled that Meta's insurance companies do not have a duty to defend Meta or cover its costs in the thousands of lawsuits playing out in California because, under California law, if a company caused harm through "intentional acts" rather than accidentally, the insurers have no obligation to defend that company. Because the documents brought out in the NM and LA trials show intentional actions, Meta loses insurance coverage. That's what the insurance companies asserted, and the judge agreed with them.

See here:
https://t.co/imEjGqy3TM

Because of these two rulings, the legal and political landscape has changed dramatically. Going forward, social media companies will be judged like any other company whose product design decisions harm children.

These two rulings mark a profound shift toward accountability. The legal system is beginning to catch up to what parents have known all along. Many parents are now more likely to get justice for what these platforms have been doing to children for many years.

[Aidan @aaoconnor]

Zuboff knew.

[Mark Gadala-Maria @markgadala]

This is wild.

143 million people thought they were catching Pokémon. They were actually building one of the largest real-world visual datasets in AI history.

Niantic just disclosed that photos and AR scans collected through Pokémon Go have produced a dataset of over 30 billion real-world images. The company is now using that data to power visual navigation AI for delivery robots.

Players didn't just walk around with their phones. They scanned landmarks, storefronts, parks, and sidewalks from every angle, at every time of day, in lighting and weather conditions that staged photography would never capture. They documented the physical world at a scale no mapping company with a fleet of vehicles could have replicated on the same timeline or budget.

Niantic collected this systematically, data point by data point, across eight years, while users thought the only thing at stake was catching a rare Charizard.

The most valuable AI training datasets in the world aren't being assembled in data centers. They're being built by people who have no idea they're building them.

[Analytic Valley Girl Chris @ChrisExpTheNews]

I was using ChatGPT for legal advice and it decided to completely hallucinate some preposterous nonsense about how growing wheat to use on my own farm somehow constitutes interstate commerce

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

A personal-injury attorney in his 50s is on the cusp of becoming the oldest American Winter Olympian in history. All he needs is for one of his teammates to slip and fall. 🔗 https://t.co/8QDwMVTvJq