And if you read the linked paper, particularly the section "Effects of Reassessments on Split-Rate Taxing Bodies" (split rate being the riff you're referring to), making land value assessments more accurate of course makes land value taxation more appealing.
I can't tell from the site or the linked twitter handles. Their core ask for every state seems to be "Please support clear safe-harbor language for lawful local AI ownership, research, model modification, open-source publication, and local execution" rather than stopping or amending any specific bill/law.
Which is approximately all companies because all companies use software and depending on what the researchers look at, 90% to 98% of codebases depend on OSS.
Conclusion: support OSS from general taxation, like the Sovereign Tech Fund in Germany does. It's a public good!
I don't know that there are any similaries besides the names -- well maybe something thematic about distributing the future or what looked like it at the time to more programmers -- but the handful of times I've run across Grain (probably all on HN) I'm reminded of Wheat https://web.archive.org/web/20050215032130/http://wheatfarm....
Do you have a pointer to where LeCun spoke about it? I noticed last October that Dwarkesh mentioned the idea off handedly on his podcast (prompting me to write up https://manifold.markets/MikeLinksvayer/llm-trained-on-data-...) but I wonder if this idea has been around for much longer, or is just so obvious that lots of people are independently coming up with it (parent to this comment being yet another)?
I've had approximately the same thought, to different but complementary ends "More generally (not covered in this question) perhaps this could also be a fun way to interrogate the tech tree, e.g., what could have been discovered given the data at a given cutoff, how early or late certain advancements came, etc." https://manifold.markets/MikeLinksvayer/llm-trained-on-data-...
It's a very good thing the US has declined to sign this. The digital rights community has been campaigning against it since its proposal by Russia in 2017. The US not signing it is a small victory across a very large loss. Many explainers like https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/joint-statement-un-cyb...
As the post mentions wallets like MetaMask being the targets, AFAIK MetaMask in particular might be one of the best protected (isolated) applications from this kind of attack due to their use of LavaMoat https://x.com/MetaMask/status/1965147403713196304 -- though I'd love to read a detailed analysis of whether they actually are protected. No affiliation with MetaMask, just curious about effectiveness of seemingly little adopted measures (relative to scariness of attacks).
Fairly comprehensive and good blog post. Possibly too new to make it in, a proposal to take the learnings of the German STF (mentioned in the post) and expand it to the EU level for the next budget cycle (2028-2035) https://eu-stf.openforumeurope.org/
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