For example, when X was “we will yank the license of, destroy the reputation of, and if possible prosecute any medical professional who delivers a dose out of order”, which was *definitely policy until it wasn’t* but which *shaped actions later, too.*
@patio11
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Policy Inconsistency: Announcement, Rescission, and Implementation Gaps
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Would also note that a repeated issue that year was that Policy X was announced, Policy X was rescinded and replaced with X’, other actors would continue implementing X, and then if asked policymakers would say “X is not policy” to e.g. kill coverage which would be negative.
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Government Healthcare Policy and Private Actor Discrimination Ethics
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… private actors. (Not all of whom would have needed the explicit government imprimatur to discriminate against some patients, but the imprimatur caused many people to say “Well certainly not my call here. I can wash my hands of this.”)
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Government Actions on AI: Ethics and Accountability
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Some people I respect reason from “If we had actually done that it would have been monstrously evil” to “We did not do that.” Unfortunately, we *very much* did that. Up and down the U.S., at almost every level of government, and incorporated by reference into decisions of many
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AI-driven redlining in California healthcare raises ethical concerns
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See generally https://
worksinprogress.co/issue/the-stor
y-of-vaccinateca/
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U.S. Healthcare Institutions Prioritized Race Over Lives Saved
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Sanity did not, in fact, prevail. Many governmental institutions in the U.S., including in California, did factually prioritize delivery of lifesaving medication by race, in the contemporaneous knowledge that this would pessimize for lives saved.
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Claude’s Capability to Analyze Complex Publications and Social Situations
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Claude, of course, can read high status publications and reason about complex social situations.
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Market Delusion: Understanding Historical Trading Failures and Systemic Risk
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(Not every bad trade in history is 2008 repeating itself, but it is instructive to understand how actors and systems can delude themselves.)
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Regulation T leverage caps prevent risk race-to-bottom dynamics
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“And do we see this in traditional markets like e.g. equities?” This is one reason why Reg T (et al) put a maximum cap on how much leverage brokers are allowed to offer given certain collateral to prevent race-to-the-bottom dynamics with risk tolerance.
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Volatility Manufacturing and Leveraged ETF Market Dynamics
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(As an intuitive sketch, the convert arb shops are manufacturing vol to both the upside and the downside, which they want to sell to willing buyers. The ETFs which pitch leveraged MSTR to retail buy one side of their outputs in size; the other side is industrial waste of that.)