Constitution
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David Sacks predicts a constitutional amendment on birthright citizenship will never happen
“The Constitution requires a certain point of view, and there's no way to change that without a constitutional amendment, which will never happen.”
Lambert: OpenAI's Model Spec is more useful than Anthropic's Constitution
“The model spec is much more useful than a constitution because the constitution is like an intermediate training artifact that you give to the training algorithm in order to get the model that you want. It is not necessarily like what model did we, like we don…”
Leo: Scalia Said Good Judges Need Smarts, Originalism, and Moral Courage
“Oh, I think it's really just three ingredients. One is smarts. And I learned this actually from Justice Scalia, who told me once, you always want a really smart judge, and the reason why you want a really smart judge is because they can't get snookered by the …”
Rey Flemings: The U.S. presidency is outdated for managing modern complex systems
“The problem in America is with the presidency itself. You know, the idea of the presidency was developed so long ago. Hey, let's elect our king. Well, when the constitution was ratified, A human being had never traveled faster than a horse could carry them. Th…”
Howe: Alito draft states stare decisis is weakest in constitutional interpretation cases
“One of the things he talks about when he's outlining the principle of stare decisis, he says that this principle is actually at its weakest in cases like this one involving the interpretation of the Constitution, because only the Supreme Court gets to say what…”
Goldstein: US won't enact Supreme Court term limits until a justice becomes senile
“We're not going to amend the Constitution to do this until we end up with a justice who's senile and who can't do the job and the Supreme Court turns into a laughing stock.”
Puri: Only one original US Constitution copy is privately owned
“11 copies. I think there's only one that's in the hands of private, private buyers. This is the one.”
Western democracies lack structures to re-examine constitutional governance for tech
“For instance, I think that things as basic as, you know, the Constitution, et cetera, really are going to have to be reexamined in a lot of ways, and I don't think that we have the social structures to do that very well in the West.”