Derek Thompson

We currently, because of our use of Section 3252 on Anthropic, are treating them like an enemy of the state, treating them worse than many Chinese AI companies that we know have a backdoor to the military or the intelligence of the CCP.

So here again, we have like, who would have thought

A contract negotiation that breaks down ends up with the nuking from outer space of an AI company using this esoteric statute.

It's this idea that we're in a period where the executive branch is essentially ruling by emergency.

Almost again, teaching us.

All sorts of ways that the legal code reserves for the executive branch such extraordinary powers if it can be proved that we are in an emergency.

That is both terrifying as a sort of matter of U.S.

democracy.

But also, again, from an analytics standpoint, I think it's interesting because once you see the formula of an adversary or an organization that you're criticizing, once you see the formula, then you can run ahead of them and detect it.

And so I'm hoping that lawyers can sort of get ahead and maybe make their arguments, for example, of the Insurrection Act, if that's going to be used in the midterms for 2028, get those arguments ready

under the understanding that under the prediction that, you know, something in the realm of an emergency might be declared for future elections.

Yeah, there's a part of me that was almost wishing you wouldn't ask this question because I struggle with it a little bit.

Yeah, it's a really, really great question.

And this is also a little bit of thinking out loud.

You keep hitting on articles that I want to write.

Maybe after this podcast is over, I'm going to go back and just listen to myself and be like, oh yeah, here's like my five next columns.

Fair point.

Here's I think a useful place to begin.

Abundance wants to follow the law.

We also just want better laws.