If a young person asks me "but how to do this in policy", I have but one piece of advice: go into the weeds. Talk and argue through something that is clear. Don't ask for more money for transit, or for $20 million for transit, or for "better spacing". In high school, a friend of mine actually observed bus routes and wrote up recommendations for the MBTA about which specific stops should be removed. That is where I advise starting.
I too genuinely marvel at planes and airpods, but this seems a bit questionable.
The superintelligence ban looks unambiguously like a work of politics, not of policy. Policy work doesn’t involve appealing to Meghan Markle’s authority. This is a political slogan thinly veiled as a policy proposal: defund the police, freeze the rent, build the wall. The point of these slogans isn’t “here’s what we should do about this” so much as “we need to do something about this.”
On this view, criticism of political rhetoric based on its policy merits is itself more sophisticated political rhetoric.
I concur. As an older Gen Z coming from a remote place of India, I can’t help myself from appreciating the wonders of modern medicine and technology at large. This degrowth mindset towards tech that we have nurtured in the last decade is part of the culture wars—but even the strongest critique can’t deny that we live like monarchs only because technology has subsidised our lives.
Beautifully written. The petition is pure vibes with no definitions, no thresholds, and no policy behind it. I liked the craftsmanship metaphor, though it took a while to reach the point.
My easier life would be becoming a full time analyst, the one that matters more is building models today.
If a young person asks me "but how to do this in policy", I have but one piece of advice: go into the weeds. Talk and argue through something that is clear. Don't ask for more money for transit, or for $20 million for transit, or for "better spacing". In high school, a friend of mine actually observed bus routes and wrote up recommendations for the MBTA about which specific stops should be removed. That is where I advise starting.
I too genuinely marvel at planes and airpods, but this seems a bit questionable.
The superintelligence ban looks unambiguously like a work of politics, not of policy. Policy work doesn’t involve appealing to Meghan Markle’s authority. This is a political slogan thinly veiled as a policy proposal: defund the police, freeze the rent, build the wall. The point of these slogans isn’t “here’s what we should do about this” so much as “we need to do something about this.”
On this view, criticism of political rhetoric based on its policy merits is itself more sophisticated political rhetoric.
I concur. As an older Gen Z coming from a remote place of India, I can’t help myself from appreciating the wonders of modern medicine and technology at large. This degrowth mindset towards tech that we have nurtured in the last decade is part of the culture wars—but even the strongest critique can’t deny that we live like monarchs only because technology has subsidised our lives.
Beautifully written. The petition is pure vibes with no definitions, no thresholds, and no policy behind it. I liked the craftsmanship metaphor, though it took a while to reach the point.
dimmite praeterita; specta ad futuris.
Well said!