In this, as in every case, no one should cede ground willingly, or in advance. The way to muck up this machine is to fight it at every single juncture, even if it is futile. Most of what they're doing, especially the EOs, relies on psychological intimidation to generate compliance. Always fight.

The timing of the ad was just too good to not share.

Wait, you can’t mention AI safety as a skill for the AI Safety Institute? That feels like placing an ad for a firefighter without mentioning “firefighting”.

We are terrified

Next we’re going to have hosts having to declare their party affiliation, like “Hi, I’m Peter Sagan, registered [party], and this is ‘wait,wait, don’t tell me!’”

And now a bill has passed the Senate to fix that. The rest of the CR sucks, but at least there is hope for DC’s services. Never thought I’d be yelling “FUND the police!”