Two related snippets I wrote this morning:
(1) On the question of whether the US has laws against misconduct in office, the charge on which former prince Andrew was arrested (🎩 BRS, link):
We don’t have such laws. Why? The short version is that law in the ‘old world’ was culturally rooted in monarchism and tended to preserve a principles-based orientation, whereas in the ‘new world’ juridical thought lost that orientation and became more rules-based. Our growing inability to enforce our laws, or indeed any laws, is a sort of rococo phase of that tendency: rather than comply with laws in principle, we play word games to redefine them, fence them in, and sidestep any restraints.
(2) On AI (🎩TU, link):
The best summary I’ve seen is this (🎩 DM): AI slop is less a criticism of the tools than it is of the people being sloppy with them. The cure? Be less sloppy. How? Teach people to be less sloppy, nurture and reward being less sloppy, and discourage / deter being sloppy. People will object but that’s impossible! No, it’s not impossible, it’s ethics. If we’ve given up on ethics, we might as well just give up. And that has nothing to do with AI per se.