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Some specific skills:
- JD candidates with software/ML systems background interested in technical AI governance
- Systems/infrastructure engineers passionate about alignment
- Researchers in preference learning, RLHF, or constitutional AI

Ideal candidates have expertise in one of:
- Systems engineering + ML infrastructure
- Legal/regulatory frameworks (especially JD + CS background)
- Foundation model pre-training
- Bayesian inference methods
- HCI/HRI
and are excited to learn the others.

Democrats perfected defenses against yesterday's threat. Now we must dismantle them. (13/13)

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Stop molding perfect successors. Build real internal diversity so strong candidates emerge naturally. Ironically, Bernie had what we needed - authenticity in an anti-establishment moment. (12/13)

The path forward? More debate, less polish. Trade enforced unity for earned consensus. Public conflict builds more trust than artificial agreement. (11/13)

White liberals face their own trap: memorized talking points instead of real understanding. When you're deferring to others' expertise, you can't be indignant at disagreement. (10/13)

The rot runs deeper. Biden's delayed exit. Pelosi and Schumer aging in place. Running Harris showed how badly party elites lost touch. (9/13)

Democrats responded backward. Their 2024 machine ran perfectly - saved 3 points in battlegrounds. Couldn't stop a 6-point tide against artificial, tired politics. (8/13)

Enter Trump. His lack of restraint signals authenticity. Can't control message = probably not lying long-term. The GOP establishment fought this reality. Lost. Raw beats scripted. (7/13)

This artificial unity created real weakness. When Dems got tagged with "Defund the Police," their calculated pushback only confirmed suspicions: the fringe spoke party truth. (6/13)

Voters who watch streamers and reality TV daily spot the difference between real interaction and careful curation. They've seen behind the curtain. They're tired of perfect polish. (5/13)

That world died. Today's fractured media means a gaffe on Twitter becomes authenticity on TikTok. The same moment: both scandal and selling point. (4/13)

For years, Dems perfected obsolete strategy. Clinton's coronation. Biden's backroom deals. Harris's orchestrated succession. All built for an era of controlled messaging. (3/13)

In 1940, France built perfect defenses against the last war. The Germans went around them. The Democratic Party just did the same. (2/13)