Patrick McKenzie

And then just run it on this data set that we've passively been producing.

The sort of implicit ongoing invasion of privacy is much worse than we kind of baked into the system in 1980 when it would have been people going down to archives to look at things in microfiche to try to do this.

Sure.

I think this is one of the least understood things about the tech industry where we have this societal level question that is not being addressed directly, but it's being addressed by misunderstood proxy questions on...

Taking as written that the finance industry is a branch of government in a meaningful sense.

Should the tech industry also be a branch of government?

And we don't ask that question directly.

We have asked instead things like, should the tech industry be responsible for minimizing the spread of misinformation, et cetera, et cetera.

And there was the injunction issued in a court case last year on the 4th of July, which I find oddly aesthetically motivating.

The court case is Missouri et al versus Biden et al.

But the argument made in the court case, which the judge accepted, which is extremely well supported by the record in front of him.

is that various actors within the United States government puppeted the tech companies and used them as cat's paws to do, frankly, shocking violations of constitutionally protected freedoms like the freedom of speech.

And that there were like, not on the level of we've built this, you know,

unaccountable, hard-to-inspect system of LLMs and heuristics.

And we started turning off a lot of people's feeds on Facebook.

But no, there was an individual person in the White House who was sending out emails like, when are you going to address me on this tweet, guys?

We can't have things like this anymore, et cetera, et cetera.

Again, a feature of the United States.

We are very good about keeping records and transparency and having a functioning legal system.

And the record before the court is like...