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Apr 22·edited Apr 22

> In practice, the NTIA directive would interfere with the process of developing, understanding, and organizing your own ideas, a crucial right in a free, democratic society. It injects political speech controls into the twenty-first century equivalent of your text editor, file manager or calendar."

Though you preface with "in practice", the sections you quote don't say any of this. Can you find examples of it being used to prosecute this way?

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I tend to have a very different take on these rules. People have always been deeply afraid of major changes to how the world works. We see it in every major advancement in information technology -- and this fear is felt on both sides of the political aisle.

The Biden EO is essentially entirely volountary and is just a fancy way of saying -- be responsible with AI. True, I wish it hadn't done so in a way that strikes people as lefty coded but if you get a democratic administration to try and explain what they think being responsible looks like off course it's going to be based on left wing models.

Most importantly, this EO heads off any real hard regulation for the time being. If the specifics cause issues the next republican administration can change it.

Ultimately, we should be happy about this because it heads off the demand for real regulation with bite.

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