Lawrence Henry Summers

Once and future president of Harvard

[Lawrence Henry Summers @summersofarabia]

It's important to keep these people in check, I think.

[Lawrence Henry Summers @summersofarabia]

Trump admin fucked up by putting the weaponization fund in DOJ. You put that shit in a DISA line or in their working capital fund and no one would ever know the difference.

[Lawrence Henry Summers @summersofarabia]

of a political enemy of the admin.

[Lawrence Henry Summers @summersofarabia]

The logic here is so deranged. Risk the authority that allows the NSA to collect on AQ members using Gmail because the FHFA director might ask DIRNSA to ask a TOPI chief to find some NSA goon willing to target some foreign third-party who might have mortgage finance information

[Ron Wyden @RonWyden]

Bill Pulte appears to be unburdened by intelligence or any semblance of ethics. His appointment at ODNI is one more reason every single Democrat should vote against rubber stamping the Trump administration's FISA Section 702 spying powers.

[Lawrence Henry Summers @summersofarabia]

If forced labor in prison is tantamount to slavery, then surely community service is the same.

[Lawrence Henry Summers @summersofarabia]

a defective one. America is too vital to be subject to such a fatally flawed system.

https://t.co/QJKbr7XoJE

[Lawrence Henry Summers @summersofarabia]

The Straussian take here is that a democratic system in which campaigns are so technocratized and election outcomes are principally a function of campaign strategy is not really worth having; a democracy in which elections reward campaigns rather than candidates is simply

[Martha Gimbel @marthagimbel]

@alexolegimas As always, time to break out the Rumsfeld letter

[Lawrence Henry Summers @summersofarabia]

Worst thing I've ever written.

[GoliathFan1952 @ByYourLogic]

Polish Oppenheimer looking into the middle distance after his 200th attempt at a baking soda and vinegar volcano succeeds after 10 years of trial and error: Oh my god. This will end all life on earth if we’re not careful

[Lawrence Henry Summers @summersofarabia]

What productivity shock???

[Steve Hou @stevehou]

Best breakdown of the China productivity shock 2.0 I’ve read.

“China accidentally built a distributed neural network of manufacturing intelligence where knowledge diffuses horizontally across thousands of agents faster than any single western company can process internally”

[Policy Tensor @policytensor]

War is

— ‘a form of communication’ (Putin)
— a dynamic asymmetric information game whereby two sides pay in risk and pain to extract private information from the enemy (Schelling)
— a historical process that is at once irreversible and has unforeseen consequences no one foretold (Kolko)
— a technical process whereby the means of destruction are unleashed by the strong against the weak (Sherry)
— a paradoxical clash of opposed wills (Luttwak)
— determined ‘from below, by those who are afraid’ (Foucault)

What is the response function of the peasant?

[Lawrence Henry Summers @summersofarabia]

These guys are a fucking embarrassment: mass surveillance is clearly good?

[Sean Parnell @SeanParnellASW]

The Department of War has no interest in using AI to conduct mass surveillance of Americans (which is illegal) nor do we want to use AI to develop autonomous weapons that operate without human involvement. This narrative is fake and being peddled by leftists in the media.

Here's what we're asking: Allow the Pentagon to use Anthropic's model for all lawful purposes.

This is a simple, common-sense request that will prevent Anthropic from jeopardizing critical military operations and potentially putting our warfighters at risk. We will not let ANY company dictate the terms regarding how we make operational decisions. They have until 5:01 PM ET on Friday to decide. Otherwise, we will terminate our partnership with Anthropic and deem them a supply chain risk for DOW.

[Lawrence Henry Summers @summersofarabia]

Bring back Larry.

[Alan Cole @AlanMCole]

@SeanTrende I think a lot of this from Scott Alexander (who IRL is an actual psychiatrist.)

[Jonathan Caverley @jcaverley]

Dominating the water- and airspace far into the Pacific is a prerequisite for a successful PLA invasion, not vice versa. In the @TXNatSecReview, I argue that Taiwan does not change the military balance either way. https://t.co/4nZ78Wia3h

[Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy]

The worst thing about Nolan’s Odyssey hasn’t even been discussed yet. Odysseus convinces the Greeks to throw Hector’s infant son off the walls of Troy. Odysseus raids a city on his way home and kills all the men and enslaves the women. Odysseus kills an unarmed suitor who clings to his knees begging for his life. Odysseus tortures a goatherd who sided with the suitors by slicing off his ears and nose, chopping off his hands and feet, and ripping off his genitals and feeding them to dogs. Odysseus has his son brutally hang twelve of his slave girls who slept with the suitors. I remind you of all this because Nolan’s Odysseus will instead have the same moral values as the 2025 median voter.

[Nicholas Decker @captgouda24]

This exercise is unbelievably cynical. You, Dhruv Patel, are the sort of man who would accuse his neighbor of witchcraft in order to steal his land. You have no decency or goodness or courage.

[Nicholas Decker @captgouda24]

@EliseSpenner @thecrimson This is an appallingly cynical exercise, and you should be ashamed of yourself.

[Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal]

Sudan is the site of the worst humanitarian crisis we have ever seen.

More than 30 million people are in dire need of assistance. The United States must begin acting with urgency to stop the bloodshed, get aid into the country, and save countless lives.