Joshua Levine
@JoshuaTLevine
Tech Policy @joinfai. Alumnus @AAF @mercatus. @Tulane Grad. Get in, There’s an Endless Frontier Out There. #knickstape
Quick update: This week, I began my role as the manager for Tech Policy @JoinFAI. Will be focusing on digital market competition & interoperability, online speech, and emerging tech. If any of these topics are of interest and you’d like to chat, DMs are open 🚀🇺🇸
We’re launching Right Of Way, a podcast about energy policy, energy politics, and above all the upcoming permitting reform fight. Hosted by me and @ppavnr, presented by @IFP and @JoinFAI. First episode dropping next week — stay tuned.
If @ppavnr and I hosted a limited series podcast all about the upcoming permitting / highway bill fight, would people listen?
Reupping our take on this techpolicy.press/cloudflares-tr…
IF YOUR JOB IS SPREADING IDEAS, PAY ATTENTION. Cloudflare's new default setting - to block AI crawlers from websites - ignores those of us who want our ideas as broadly adopted as possible. If you "write for the AI," as @tylercowen has put it, you need to take action. 🧵
Yesterday, @POTUS came out in favor of the freedom to train AI models without being held back by copyright law. Now is the perfect time to read @JoshuaTLevine’s arguments on why access to training data is crucial for US competitiveness. Get the full breakdown in his 🧵!
“If you read an article and learn from it, you need to be able to use it without the complexity of contract negotiations.” Thank you @POTUS for saying what should be obvious: training on publicly available information is fair use and vital to US AI Dominance.
my timeline is filled with folks from every AI faction saying “hell yeah” to the AI Action Plan…truly great work from the entire team!
Chairman Carr is spot-on. Look forward to working with the Commission to ensure America's regulatory regime promotes submarine cable system growth, resiliency, and security.
Undersea cables are the unsung heroes of global communications, carrying 99% of Internet traffic. As the U.S. builds the data centers and other infrastructure necessary to lead the world in AI and next-gen technologies, these cables are more important than ever. That’s why the…
We're thrilled today to be launching The Rickover Corpus with @charlesxjyang and @IndustrialStrat The Corpus is a free searchable archive of over 2,500 pages of never before seen speeches, memos, and testimony from Hyman Rickover digitized from the USNA rickovercorpus.org
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This misses the point. The story with copper *mining* has a lot to do with permitting—but the US is more bottlenecked on copper *smelting*. Smelting projects have multi-$B pricetags and a 30+yr asset life in a highly cyclical commodity. Private capital doesn’t want to touch it.
Not long ago the New Right pointed to lagging US rare earth production as an example of capitalist oversight. Sec of State @MarcoRubio often called it "a market failure." Except it's government regulation, not corporations, that made opening mines so expensive.
Great article to get caught up on the current state-of-play in the ongoing AI / (c) legal saga. As I mention in the piece, these lawsuits will determine which organizations, and which countries, control the future of AI development.
Is training AI models on copyrighted material legal? A battle between tech companies and creative groups over the answer is simmering in DC. W/ @jtoonkel: wsj.com/tech/ai/hollyw…
Fuck Elsevier, all my homies hate Elsevier
Researchers funded by the NIH will be required to make their scientific papers available to read for free as soon as they are published go.nature.com/3Gh7Rr8
Perhaps the greatest living American. Sowell is simply unparalleled in terms of his prose styling, capacity for explanation, & ability to cut through opposing arguments. He's a legend. Happy birthday to one of the true GOATs.
THOMAS SOWELL AT 95. With Tom and Mary Sowell at Tom's birthday luncheon this very day, my wife and yours truly. Happy birthday to a genuinely great man!