The insufferable hypocrisy of elite academia

By protecting a star from plagiarism charges, a storied college undermined its values.

In Carpenter v. United States, the Supreme Court held not only that the Fourth Amendment applies when the government collects certain categories of third-party

Podcast Episode · Scaling Laws · June 23 · 53m

The government is using export control law to force Anthropic to cut access to its most powerful models. The legal authority is plausible but the facts remain murky.

The government is using export control law to force Anthropic to cut access to its most powerful models. The legal authority is plausible but the facts remain murky.

The government is using export control law to force Anthropic to cut access to its most powerful models. The legal authority is plausible but the facts remain murky.

Special Commission Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences Download the report. This report is addressed to university chancellors and presidents who ar...

Our progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications.

Significant and unwelcome changes to what had been legal academia's major open source scholarly repository and notice system

An executive order so deferential to the AI industry that it disclaimed any mandatory authority still couldn't survive a few last-minute calls.

An executive order so deferential to the AI industry that it disclaimed any mandatory authority still couldn't survive a few last-minute calls.

AI dominance will require more than faster models—it will require breakthroughs in understanding, testing, and securing frontier AI.

James Comey could have gone a lot stronger than “8647” and still not risked jail.

James Comey could have gone a lot stronger than “8647” and still not risked jail.

Podcast Episode · Scaling Laws · March 24 · 50m

Generative AI isn’t just coming for the legal academy—the era of what we call “Large Language Scholarship” is already here. Law professors are using AI to write

The government can stop buying from Anthropic anytime it wants. It just can't bypass the procurement system Congress built to do it.

This is designation as political theater: a show of force that will not stick.