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Series of decisions that show Supreme Court continues to do its job and is not “right wing” the way leftists claim every time a decision doesn’t go their way

“I don’t think AI is going to replace your job. But it is more than possible that an AI-native firm will supplant your company.” Excellent essay by @DKThomp: https://t.co/PJR0e1gOUV “Despite the advantages that large firms will have, I think the rise of the solo act and the nano-firm is a real and lasting trend. A book that I cannot stop thinking about is Alfred Chandler’s The Visible Hand, which is a history of the rise of modern capitalism. Chandler argued that the railroad and telegraph created a profusion of sales and inventory information for big businesses to manage. This work required professional managers. Thus, salaried managerial hierarchy was born. But AI and other digital platforms are different; they’re adept at synthesizing information that’s already been created. If the railroad invented the modern org chart, AI-native firms are inventing a kind of anti-org chart, a firm in which coordination is increasingly done by models, and digital platforms, rather than by layers of human managers. When new firms don’t require the bureaucracies that accumulate at larger companies, their payroll can stay small while their earnings get big. So, we’ve gone from the invisible hand of capitalism, which coordinates prices without a central control system, to the visible hand of managers, who coordinate prices to control a flood of information, to the invisible hands-on-deck—digital platforms, including AI, that allow sole proprietors to get more done with smaller staff.” https://t.co/PJR0e1gOUV

Ramp continues to one of the best in biz in using their data to create zietgisty research and stories https://t.co/kMhwYwAnCR

“Drinking one beer a night for a year is a lot less harmful than drinking 365 beers in one go. The same applies to radiation exposure, but regulation doesn’t agree.” Really superb essay by @bswud and @chalmermagne: https://t.co/wDjPfybAhC “Two years before Chernobyl, an explosion at a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, released toxic methyl isocyanate gas that killed at least 2,000 people instantly, permanently disabled another 4,000, and caused 550,000 injuries in total. In 1975, the Banqiao Dam in China failed, flooding 12,000 square kilometers, drowning at least 25,000 people, and destroying perhaps five million houses.  Whereas Chernobyl is a household name, Bhopal and Banqiao are mostly familiar only to specialists. People have much greater familiarity with and concern about the risks created by nuclear power, and the world’s international radiation protection regime is based on the idea that any release of radioactive material from a nuclear power plant is intolerable. This has led to regulations that have increased the costs of nuclear electricity over time to the point where it is widely considered a slow, backward, and ineffective technology.  The idea that any release of radioactive material is an intolerable disaster rests on the claim that radiation is harmful even in small, spread-out doses. But this claim is not well supported. The studies that claim to show harms from slow, drawn-out ionizing radiation are unconvincing. By giving them undeserved credence, we may be foreclosing one of the world’s most powerful technologies.”