For reasons which are similar in character to this advice, but also for many other reasons, you should orient your life and your company around assuming you could lose physical control of your phone or laptop. That should be very annoying and not existential.
@patio11
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Government Interactions: Legal Representation and Security Protocols
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This is also standard advice from security professionals. If the government needs information from you or your firm, you want that interaction to happen in an office room with a lawyer present rather than in public with someone who possesses a firearm.
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Government Authority in Tech Policy: Real Examples Needed
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Posting to policy pipeline is realer than almost anyone can imagine, but I would hope that many people in position to influence USFG have a bookshelf where they can trivially point to six examples of this authority being used in a useful fashion.
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USFG Web App Deployment and Nation-Scale Logistics Capabilities
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I mentioned this in the VaccinateCA write up, as if one thinks the USFG is incapable of shipping a web app or doing nation scale logistics, you can just start giving out colonel commissions. (Not the only way to ship a web app, I hope goes without saying)
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Government taps private sector expertise to fill state capacity gaps
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Huh, government remembered that if there is ever a lack of state capacity it can just start putting uniforms on private sector people w/ relevant expertise/skills.
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State Emergency Powers: Forgotten Legal Tools After WWII
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Yes, mentioned it in the context of state capacity issues during covid. Law is still on the books (… obviously) but after WWII feels like we forgot we had the option.
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Operational Cost-Benefit Analysis of AI Review Speed Scaling
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Incidentally if you’re in charge of Ops then guaranteeing “review happens in seconds” versus “review happens in hours” means you need many many more agents/sites and so you don’t want to do that unless you have to.
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California AI Employment Law Claims Face Tens Billions Settlement
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Not sure where we as an industry go from here but, assuming standard rates in California for employment law claims, the right magnitude to think of is “tens of billions of dollars” in settlements.
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Google’s Legal Practices Against Underfunded Startups Examined
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And, again, the most publicly documented case of this in tech is an obscure startup that couldn’t afford lawyers, Google.
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YouTube Recruiting Discrimination Case Highlights Hiring Bias
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The most publicly verified evidence of this in tech is the YouTube recruiting fracas, where the plaintiff had a screen grab of an email by recruiting management to line recruiters saying to kick out of pipeline all candidates that were not in correct demographics.