Dean Ball says advancing in AI policy eventually requires studying the Talmud for its complex legal reasoning

What offends me in OpenAI's talmudmaxxing is low cultural confidence. Guys. You're summoning Shoggoths. Your rivals are building Celestial Infrastructure. We're a long way from Kansas *and* Jerusalem. You're closer to Zoku from Quantum Thief than to Rabbi Judah Loew. Stand tall.

I have long had many reasons to be extremely private about my research agenda, but “threat of stalking” wasn’t one of them until this week

Lol I just wrote about this -- and by the next day I was proven right! https://twitter.com/teortaxesTex/status/2076119293566079101