Today’s overturning of the decades-old Chevron doctrine, under which courts were compelled to defer to agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes, is the most significant court case for technology policy in the US in years. The impact, especially on frontier tech industries like AI, biotech, crypto, clean energy, and beyond, can’t be overstated.
The doctrine was originally rooted in the idea that agencies are experts in their arenas, possessing deep subject matter knowledge of the industries they regulate. This gave extraordinary power to administrative agencies, which in the 40 years since Chevron have grown meaningfully. Unelected agency staff became de facto policy makers, superseding the role of Congress.
Meanwhile, the pace of innovation has naturally caused agencies to become less “expert” with respect to technology, since over the past few decades regulation has largely been done through agency interpretation of broad authorizing statutes—often written long before the technology even existed.
What the Court decided in today’s case is essentially that Congress needs to be more specific and precise, or it’ll be up to the courts instead of the agencies to interpret what Congress meant.
It’s more important than ever for both parties to focus on electing leaders who understand how important frontier tech is to the future of this country and have an affirmative, specific vision for how to legislate.
Recent Alison Roman episode with an AI generated image of a woman making lemonade. It's fascinating to me that the engine can absolutely nail things humans traditionally struggle with like light, shape, proportion and depth, but seemingly not understand the concept of pouring.
Peter Thiel has a comment that I love: "Things that are real sciences don't need to put 'science' at the end of it."
Its Physics. Not Physics Science.
Its Chemistry. Not Chemistry Science.
Its Biology. Not Biology Science.
Its Electrical Engineering. Not Electrical Engineering Science
With science, you will learn exactly the same things, no matter where you go to school. While this may seem like a bad thing, I think its a great thing. The laws of physics don't change just because you went to a state school vs Ivy League.
Now, if you think about other "sciences" however, there is a lot of variance depending on where you go to school.
Social Science?
Political Science?
Even Computer Science varies wildly from school to school.
Some universities try to create a mystique that you will be taught something or by someone or meet someone that will change your life when pursuing these other "sciences". This may be true in some circumstances but the odds of success are probably much higher for the broader population if you can focus on indelible content (ie real science) that describes how the world works.
And you can learn THAT, on a level playing field with everyone, anywhere.
🤯🤯Well this is something else.
GPT-4 passes basically every exam. And doesn't just pass...
The Bar Exam: 90%
LSAT: 88%
GRE Quantitative: 80%, Verbal: 99%
Every AP, the SAT...
The number of people who don’t understand why this caused the SVB bank run - or what a bank run is - blows my mind. We need a better (economic) history curriculum in our schools
everyone needs to turn on the Murray-Kokkinakis Australian Open match rn
It’s past 3 AM in Melbourne and they’re in the 5th hour of their battle. Crowd’s rowdy and pulling for hometown boy Kokk and Sir Andy Murray - with a metal hip - has come back from 2 sets to love down
I am extremely please proud thrilled crying screaming to announce my third book, SWEET ENOUGH: DESSERTS FOR PEOPLE WHO DONT DO DESSERT out 3/28/23, available for pre-order now 🥰🍰😇
Exxon is rated top ten best in world for environment, social & governance (ESG) by S&P 500, while Tesla didn’t make the list!
ESG is a scam. It has been weaponized by phony social justice warriors.
Gaming🤝 Education.
The two used to be fundamentally at odds, but now go hand in hand — alleviating remote learning burnout, and revamping online education. This amazing panel convened to discuss how the Metaverse & gaming are poised to transform edtech:
https://t.co/jUPC0Kq6BA
Moonbirds marks a turning point in NFTs.
It's not about @moonbirds_xyz specifically. It's about the whole market.
As an experienced startup person, I can see a pattern emerging here. It has some important implications for the future of NFTs.
Read on to find out more.
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Excited to announce Partiful Ventures' Pre-pre-pre-seed program. We invest pre-idea, pre-birth, and pre-conception. In fact, we invest in founders' parents before they even procreate, and take 7% equity in the child's future company.