As one sub issue, consider the compelled speech doctrine. The USFG broadly can’t force private actors to say something they don’t believe. This includes performing work which embeds speech acts, like producing reports and analyses that would not exist but for compulsion.
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No Bug: Designed Harm and Institutional Denial
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“So what was the bug?” Ah, you see, that’s the thing. There was no bug. Everything happening was designed to happen. No party admits fault. No official party even institutionally believes that harm happened.
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Infrastructure Scale Inefficiencies Delay Administrative Consistency
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In a pattern which those familiar with infra at scale will be painfully familiar with, multiple steps are run once daily or less, and so eventually consistency in understanding Ruriko’s eligibility status takes longer than sending letters in mail purporting to revoke coverage.
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AI Document Processing Fails to Cancel Health Insurance
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After again acting as a transport for PDF documents between the federal government and a health insurer I was told that the cancellation of health insurance will not actually go through.
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Crypto litigation strategy: embracing the pig wrestling metaphor
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There’s a famous saying about not attempting to wrestle pigs, because you’ll get dirty and the pig will enjoy it. If I am ever sued over crypto nonsense, I am the pig.
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Berkshire Hathaway Insurance Relief in Age of AI
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It’s presumably a very tiny sigh of relief. (Folks not understanding this joke: I have an insurance policy from a Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary for all the usual business reasons.)
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Startup Fraud: When Accounting and Criminal Conspiracy Intersect
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“Do you express an opinion on this?” On a chaotic startup which was also a criminal conspiracy getting the accounting exactly right? I mean, your prior for that should be near zero, right? Best available high percentage view is “Oh, many shenanigans of all sorts, but grew.”
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Government discretion and social control mechanisms implications
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One way to read “I wasn’t charged with X!” is “The government knows to its satisfaction that I did not X.” Another way to view it is “The government perceived option value in being able to imprison or otherwise consequence me essentially at will if I violate current agreement.”
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CZ’s Statement: Legal and Strategic Implications Analyzed
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I think lawyers would, if asked about this statement, say “You need to understand that this could be strategic.” (Taken from CZ’s tweet today.)
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Niche Interest in Financial AI Screening Solutions
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"Who is actually interested in that, Patrick?" I can't be the only person who reads sales copy written in Japanese for financial industry screening solutions as a hobby, right.